JAMB UTME - Economics - 1988

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

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

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

Merchants banks perform all the following functions EXCEPT?

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

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

An increase in an economy's productive capacity implies?

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

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

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

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

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

Total revenue is always equal to?

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

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

In the short run, the monopolistic competitors?

Which of the following is a direct tax?

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

Price leadership is?

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

The assumption of profit maximization implies profit?

Deficit financing is mostly facilitated by the existence of?

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

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

One of the characteristics of an imperfect market is?

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

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

Total fixed cost measures the cost of?

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

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

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

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

If technology becomes less capital-intensive, it means?

Which of the following BEST describes the production function?

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?

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

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

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

The law of Diminishing Returns begins to operate when?

Scarcity in economics means that?

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

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

Economic is often described as a science because?

The most threatening problem for the less developed countries is?

Localization of industries refers to the?

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

If goods were free, a rational consumer would consume?

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