JAMB UTME - Economics - 1988

The rate at which money changes hands is known as the?

Which of the following changes in equilibrium price and quantity is as a result of an upward shift in the market demand for a commodity?

One of the characteristics of an imperfect market is?

Scarcity in economics means that?

Which of the following would most likely be considered an example of benefit taxation?

In the short run, the monopolistic competitors?

When a variable is associated with time period, it is?

The average product of labour in a given period is obtained by dividing the?

If in this demand-supply diagram, the quantity supplied is OQ, then

Total revenue is always equal to?

If technology becomes less capital-intensive, it means?

The assumption of profit maximization implies profit?

Which of the following is TRUE at the quantity of output where Average Cost (AC) per unit has reached its minimum level?

Which of the following occurs in the circular flow of economic activities with no leakages

In any economy, what is used as money is determined by?

The group of unemployed members of a community who are physically handicapped or disabled, is generally classified under unemployment as?

The demand and supply equations for a commodity are given respectively as D = 20 - 1/2P; S = 8 + 1/4P. Recalling that at equilibrium, D = S, the equilibrium (P) and quantity (Q) can be obtained as

Economic is often described as a science because?

Ufuoma is a consumer. His scale of preference shows that he prefers a pair of shoes to a wrist watch; he prefers the wrist watch to a pair of trousers; he prefers the pair of trousers to the pair of shoes. This means that Ufuoma is

In a public company, enterpreneurial functions are performed by the?

Merchants banks perform all the following functions EXCEPT?

The most threatening problem for the less developed countries is?

If aggregate income is N500.00 and aggregate consumption is N400.00, this means that the average propensity to consume is?

An increase in an economy's productive capacity implies?

A textile firm operates a plant in the North (where capital expensive relative to labour)as well as a plant in the South (where labour is expensive relative to capital ). In this diagram above the Southern plant will minimize cost by combining labour and capital in the amounts indicated by

Which of the following is a good example of invisible item on balance of payments account?

The most important limitation on the partner as a form of business enterprise is the?

In estimating the national income of a country, the three approaches usually adopted are the?

When a nation is experiencing balance of payment surplus, it is in a better position to?

Price leadership is?

Which of the following factors enhances the ability of commercial banks to create money?

The law of Diminishing Returns begins to operate when?

Localization of industries refers to the?

If prices fall in a perfectly competitive industry, the firms in that industry in the short run will?

A commodity is said to have a derived demand when the commodity

If goods were free, a rational consumer would consume?

One factor which influences the slope of a non-linear demand curve for a commodity is the?

Total fixed cost measures the cost of?

The Malthusian theory of population predicts that growth in food production will?

Which of the following items is subtracted when computing Gross National Product at factor cost, by the expenditure method?

The output at which total revenue equals total cost is known as?

Collectivism refers to the system of management of state enterprises in a?

Which of the following BEST describes the production function?

Development outside a given firm which reduce the firm costs are called?

Restriction on credit creation by commercial banks can be effected through?

Under partnership, investors who have no desires to be actively involved in the day-to-day management of such organization, are called?

Which of the following is a direct tax?

The additional revenue obtained by using one more unit of a factor is called?

Deficit financing is mostly facilitated by the existence of?