Economics MCQs

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Most empirical studies show that firm’s cost curves ?


a slope up to the right


bare U-shaped


c slope down to the right


dslope down to the right and then level off.



Engineers for the All-Terrain Bike Company have determined that a 15% increase in all inputs will cause a 15% increase in output Assuming that input prices remain constant, you correctly deduce that such a change will cause ________ as output increases?


a average costs to remain constant


baverage costs to decrease


caverage costs to increase


dmarginal costs to increase



Which of the following is a correct statement about the relationship between average product (AP) and marginal product (MP) ?


aIf TP is declining, then AP is negative


bIf AP = MP, then total product is at a maximum.


cIf AP exceeds MP then AP is falling


d If AP is at a maximum, then MP is also,



The short run, as economists use the phrase, in characterized by ?


a at least one fixed factor of production and firms neither leaving nor entering the industry.


bno variable inputs – that is, all of the factors of production are fixed


call inputs being variable


da period where the law of diminishing returns does not hold



Which of the following is most likely to be a variable cost for a firm ?


aThe franchiser’s fee that a restaurant must pay to the national restaurant chain


b The payroll taxes that are paid on employee wages.


cThe monthly rent on office space that it leased for a year


dThe interest payments made on loans.



Profit-maximizing firms want to maximize the difference between ?


a marginal revenue and marginal cost.


b total revenue and total cost


c total revenue and marginal cost


dmarginal revenue and average cost



Criticisms against the North American Free Trade Agreement include all of the following except ?


awages in the United States will rise relative to Mexican wages


bAmerican jobs will be lost to workers in Mexico


cThe environment is not adequately protected by NAFTA


dNone of the above



Trade creation will more likely outweigh trade diversion for Country X that forms a customs union if the level of tariffs in Country X prior to the customs union is ________ and the total number of countries forming the customs union is _________?


arelatively high; relatively large


brelatively high; relatively small


crelatively low ; relatively large


drelatively low ; relatively small



A positive, dynamic effect of economic integration is illustrated by ?


atrade diversion effect


b increased monopoly power of firms


c decrease customs costs


deconomy-of-scale effect



_________ is said to exist when the formation of a regional trading group leads to an expansion of trade above pregroup levels ?


atrade creation


btrade diversion


ctrade exclusion


dtrade distortion


View Answer trade creation

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