This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Finance > Economics > Applied Economics > Applied Economics – Quiz 55 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Applied Economics Quiz 55 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. French phrase literally translates to "leave alone" A) Laissez faire system. B) Laissez fair system. C) Lassez faire system. D) Liasez fair system. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Laissez faire system. 2. Brainstorming is not important in SWOT Analysis because it promotes different ideas. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 3. When income goes up, consumers buy more A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. A compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions. A) Goods. B) Taxes. C) Services. D) Incomes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taxes. 5. It is an individual who are said to make calculated decisions when shopping, purchasing products that bring them the greatest benefit, otherwise known as maximum utility in economic terms. A) Increased marginal utility. B) Decreased marginal utility. C) Utility maximization. D) Nonsatiation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Utility maximization. 6. The efforts of the people involved in production, including labor and entrepreneurship. A) Human resources. B) Economic resources. C) Capital resources. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Human resources. 7. When the quantity supplied exceeds the quantity demanded, or when the product's price is above the equilibrium price. A) Surplus. B) Shortage. C) Complements. D) Equilibrium. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Surplus. 8. Weak infrastructure A) Strength. B) Threat. C) Weakness. D) Opportunities. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weakness. 9. What is Oligopoly A) Market dominated by a small number of strategically interacting firms. B) Market dominated by a large number of strategically interacting firms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Market dominated by a small number of strategically interacting firms. 10. They say that economics is the science of ..... A) Opportunities. B) Decision Making. C) Country Growth. D) Money. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decision Making. 11. Which of the following is the reason firms have little price control in a perfectly competitive market? A) High barriers make it difficult for firms to enter the market. B) Supplied products are exactly the same, so buyers purchase where the price is lowest. C) Low barriers reduce profit motive, so there are fewer sellers. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Supplied products are exactly the same, so buyers purchase where the price is lowest. 12. Why is it important for the business to evaluate managerial decisions using a SWOT analysis? (UND) A) It analysis strengths, weaknesses, obligations and threats. B) It analysis strong points, weak points, opportunities and threats. C) It analysis strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. D) It analysis strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It analysis strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. 13. It is the power to satisfy but is a subjective notion and a specific product will vary from one person to another. A) Preferences. B) Needs. C) Utility. D) Wants. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Utility. 14. What do you call the commonly accepted measure of market concentration? A) Herfindall-Hirschman Index. B) Herfindahl-Hirschman Index. C) Herfinndahl-Hirschman Index. D) Herfinndahl-Hircshman Index. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Herfindahl-Hirschman Index. 15. Varying degrees of competition in the market A) Number and size of buyers and sellers. B) Number of degree of the mobility of resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Number and size of buyers and sellers. 16. The willingness of a consumer to buy a commodity at a given price. A) Price. B) Supply. C) Market. D) Demand. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Demand. 17. Which type of market structures has very few producers(companies) that control the majority of the market?Hint:think of the soda market A) Perfect competition. B) Monopolistic competition. C) Oligopoly. D) Monopoly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oligopoly. 18. Scarcity refers to a condition where there are sufficient resources to satisfy all the needs and wants of a population. A) BLUFF. B) FACT. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) BLUFF. 19. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a perfectly competitive market? A) Homogeneous products. B) Many buyers and sellers. C) No barriers to entry or exit. D) Firms have market power. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Homogeneous products. 20. It is a man-made resource of production used to produce further wealth. A) Land. B) Labor. C) Capital. D) Entrepreneur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Capital. 21. The significance of production theory in business is to minimize output within limited quantities of output available. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 22. This is to measures the degree of elasticity on a single point on the demand curve. A) Point Elasticity. B) Price Elasticity. C) Elasticity. D) Arc Elasticity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Point Elasticity. 23. If the ABM firm sells homogenous products in a market, with a single seller and many buyers, for which there are no close substitutes to the products, it is a/an A) Perfect competitor. B) Monopolist. C) Monopolistic competitor. D) Oligopolist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monopolist. 24. What does it mean?Ed = 0 A) Perfectly inelastic demand. B) Inelastic demand. C) Unitarily elastic demand. D) Elastic demand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Perfectly inelastic demand. 25. Mr. Dennis Elecanal purchased new car as a gift for his father's birthday. Thisgood is A) Luxury Good. B) Consumers Good. C) Capital Good. D) Economic Good. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Luxury Good. 26. The amount of product producers are willing to bring to the market at any price. A) Total product. B) Law of supply. C) Quantity supplied. D) Theory of production. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quantity supplied. 27. Economics is a social science because it studies human behavior just like Psychology and Sociology. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 28. It is the branch of economics that focuses on actions of particular agents within the economy, like households, workers, and businesses. We learn about the theory of consumer behavior and the theory of the firm. A) Microeconomics. B) Macroeconomics. C) Economic Goods. D) Economics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Microeconomics. 29. Scarcity and ..... go hand in hand? A) Problem. B) Choice. C) Resources. D) Solution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Choice. 30. It was developed in 1979 by Michael E. Porter of Harvard Business School as a framework or a guide for assessing and evaluating the competitive strength and position of a business organization. A) Porter's Five Forces of Competitive Position Analysis. B) SWOT Analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Porter's Five Forces of Competitive Position Analysis. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEconomics QuizzesFinance QuizzesApplied Economics Quiz 1Applied Economics Quiz 2Applied Economics Quiz 3Applied Economics Quiz 4Applied Economics Quiz 5Applied Economics Quiz 6Applied Economics Quiz 7Applied Economics Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books