GNP includes net factor income from abroad.
- True
- False
Answer: True
GNP = GDP + Net Factor Income from Abroad (NFIA).
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GDP at market price - Indirect taxes + Subsidies = ?
- GDP at FC
- GNP
- NNP
- NDP
Answer: GDP at FC
Net indirect taxes are subtracted to find factor cost.
Opportunity cost is also called?
- Explicit cost
- Economic cost
- Accounting cost
- Sunk cost
Answer: Economic cost
Economic cost includes both explicit and implicit costs.
Total cost = Total fixed cost + ___.
- Foreign Currency Assets (FCA)
- Total variable cost
- 1998
- Okun's
Answer: Total variable cost
TC is the sum of TFC and TVC.
Fixed cost changes with output.
- True
- False
Answer: False
Fixed cost remains constant regardless of output level.
Marginal cost curve cuts average cost at?
- Maximum
- Minimum
- Origin
- Infinity
Answer: Minimum
MC intersects AC exactly at its lowest point.
MRTS is the slope of ___.
- isoquant
- final
- interest
- NPCI (or National Payments Corporation of India)
Answer: isoquant
Marginal Rate of Technical Substitution.
Isoquants intersect.
- True
- False
Answer: False
Isoquants never intersect, similar to ICs.
Isoquant shows combinations of?
- Goods
- Inputs
- Prices
- Costs
Answer: Inputs
Different combinations of inputs producing the same output.
Law of variable proportions applies to ___ run.
- short
- drives out
- TRIMs (or Trade-Related Investment Measures)
- Treasury
Answer: short
Analyzes the effect of adding variable inputs to fixed ones.
Long run has fixed costs.
- True
- False
Answer: False
All costs are variable in the long run.
Short run has at least one ___ factor.
- Variable
- Fixed
- Sunk
- None
Answer: Fixed
In the short run, some inputs cannot be changed.
Monopsony is a market with?
- One seller
- One buyer
- Two sellers
- Many buyers
Answer: One buyer
A single buyer controls the entire market demand.
Cartel is a form of ___.
- India Debt Resolution Company Ltd (IDRCL)
- Countercyclical
- collusion
- arbitrage (or resale)
Answer: collusion
Cartels are formal collusive agreements among firms.
Oligopoly has no barriers to entry.
- True
- False
Answer: False
Oligopoly has significant barriers to entry.
Price discrimination is possible in?
- Perfect competition
- Monopoly
- Oligopoly
- Monopolistic
Answer: Monopoly
Requires market control and market segmentation.
Duopoly has ___ sellers.
- two
- Diminishing Marginal
- middle-income (and creditworthy low-income)
- Refinery Products
Answer: two
Duopoly means exactly two sellers dominate the market.
Price taker exists in monopoly.
- True
- False
Answer: False
A monopolist is a price maker, not a price taker.
Kinked demand curve model is for?
- Monopoly
- Perfect competition
- Oligopoly
- Monopsony
Answer: Oligopoly
Explains price rigidity in an oligopolistic market.
Monopolistic competition features ___ differentiation.
- product
- working
- lender of last resort
- purchasing (or buying)
Answer: product
Products are similar but differentiated by brand/features.