JAMB UTME - Economics - 1987

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

The rate of exchange between a domestic and a foreign currency is defined as the?

The study of economic behavior of individual decision-making units (consumers, resources owners and business firms) in a free-enterprise economy is known as?

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

To which of the following sectors do services belong?

Which of the following best describes the concept of opportunity cost?

For normal goods the income elasticity of demand is?

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

Money market differs from capital market in that it?

A limited liability company is usually owned by?

In the diagram, above Ps is the supply curve for a particular commodity, while OP is the price which of the following statements is correct?

The money which government spends yearly for the maintenance of its school is?

Market is defined as?

Efficiency of labour is enhanced by?

Use the following information above to answer this question. X, Y and Z are the only three consumers of a commodity. Their respective demand schedules for the commodity are as given above. What is market demand for the commodity when price is N5?

Transfer payment are

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

Which of the following best explains the structural changes in the population of a country?

An increase in supply will lower price unless?

The liability of the sole trader is?

Price can be defined as?

A production possibility curve shows?

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?

If inflation is anticipated to continue?

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?

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

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

Average fixed cost is

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

The difference between personal income and personal disposal income is?

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

Statistical information available in most West African countries suggests that?

Frictional unemployment?

In which of the diagrams above, is the consumer surplus correctly shaded?

Use the following information above to answer this question. X, Y and Z are the only three consumers of a commodity. Their respective demand schedules for the commodity are as given above. The market demand curve for the commodity cuts the quantity axis when quantity is

A budget with a projected revenue in excess of its expenditure is said to be?

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

If a good is an inferior good, then?

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

The main reason for charging interest is to?

Ad valorem tax means?

Which of the following applies to a commodity sold abroad at a price lower than that in the producing country?

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

In the keynesian model?

Economic development is defined as?

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

In order to raise more revenue for a certain period, government should impose higher taxes on goods whos demand is?

Capital consumption allowance refers to?

Labour productivity is defined as?

For the improvement of the welfare of a people, a high production level is not enough because