Economics JAMB, WAEC, NECO AND NABTEB Official Past Questions

4306

Money market differs from capital market in that it?

  • A. deals with short-term loans while capital market deals with long-term funds
  • B. deals with money only while capital market deals with capital as well
  • C. is limited in scope while capital market is not
  • D. uses interest rate while capital does not
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4307

A limited liability company is usually owned by?

  • A. an individual
  • B. a government
  • C. shareholders
  • D. two or more partners
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4308

Which of the following is a disadvantage of regional concentration of industries?

  • A. Development of congested urban areas
  • B. Existence of regional unempolyment
  • C. High cost of labour
  • D. Immobility of labour
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4309

Which of the following is NOT a type of business ownership?

  • A. Debenture holding
  • B. private company
  • C. Parnership
  • D. Joint Stock venture
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4310

The liability of the sole trader is?

  • A. indeterminable
  • B. unlimited
  • C. transferable
  • D. limited
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4311

To which of the following sectors do services belong?

  • A. Primary
  • B. Secondary
  • C. Tertiary
  • D. Construction
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4312

What form of market is found in an imperfect competition where there are few buyers and many sellers?

  • A. Oligopoly
  • B. Monopoly
  • C. Duopoly
  • D. Oligopsony
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4313

Which of the following is compatible with a firm in a purely competitive market?

  • A. demand is inelastic
  • B. demand is infinitely inelastic
  • C. Marginal Cost is falling
  • D. Price is greater than Marginal Cost
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4314

An increase in supply will lower price unless?

  • A. supply is perfectly inelastic
  • B. demand is perfectly inelastic
  • C. it is followed by an increase in demand
  • D. demand is highly inelastic
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4315

If a good is an inferior good, then?

  • A. it is also necessarily a Giffen good
  • B. the quality of the goods demanded varies inversely with its price
  • C. its income elasticity of demand is negative
  • D. the poor buy the good only out of habit
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4316

For normal goods the income elasticity of demand is?

  • A. positive
  • B. negative
  • C. zero
  • D. infinite
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4317

Given an original price of N3.50 per kilogram of rice and a change in price of 1.40, and given the quantity purchase at the old price as 10kg and a change in the quality as 5kg after the price change, the elasticity is equal to?

  • A. 10.20
  • B. 3.57
  • C. 1.25
  • D. 0.80
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4318

A shift in the demand curve for commodity when the supply curve is vertical will lead to a change in the?

  • A. price only
  • B. quantity only
  • C. quality only
  • D. price and quantity
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4319

In the operation of market forces, the market is in equilibrium at the point where?

  • A. demand and supply curve intersect in more than one point provided the market is cleared
  • B. the excess in market can be conveniently stored
  • C. excess demand is negative
  • D. demand and supply curves intersect
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4320

Price can be defined as?

  • A. a rate of exchange
  • B. a mediumof exchange
  • C. the cost of product
  • D. the standard of accounting
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4321

In the process of shopping, Mr. X whose wages per month does not exceed N200, finds that the price of a commodity he used to purchase with a fixed amount of N200 has risen to N230,. He therefore decides not to buy this commodity at all. Mr. X is thus affected by the?

  • A. substitution effect of a price change
  • B. income effect of a price change
  • C. opportunity cost of a price change
  • D. inflation effect of a price change
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4322

In the long run a firm will leave an industry if price?

  • A. does not cover at at least Average Total Cost
  • B. is not equal to Marginal Cost
  • C. is higher than Average Varriable Cost
  • D. is not at least equal to the minimum of Marginal Cost curve
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4323

The shut-down point for a firm in the short run is the output at which?

  • A. the pricr of the product is lowest
  • B. marginal Cost is constant
  • C. Average Variable Cost is not covered
  • D. Average Cost is minimum
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4324

The form of capital which is usually consumed or transformed into finished goods and services in the production process is called?

  • A. industrial capital
  • B. social capital
  • C. fixed capital
  • D. circulating capital
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4325

In the history of Economic Thought the concept of Division of labour is usually associated with?

  • A. David Richardo
  • B. J.M. Keynes
  • C. Adam Smith
  • D. Karl Marx
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4326

The residual of production which accrues to the owner of land after all other expenses have been met is called?

  • A. wages
  • B. rent
  • C. interest
  • D. profit
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