What do you understand by normative economic analysis?
Normative economic analysis refers to the analysis in which we study whether a particular mechanism is desirable or not. In this analysis, we study what ought to be the desired situation or in what ways the economic problems should be solved. In other words, it is concerned with what should be and what should not be, and what is desirable and what is not? In normative economic analysis we come across normative statements that cannot be tested as they involve personal value judgments. It deals with idealistic situations and is based on ethics. An example of a normative statement could be, ‘The Central government should not stop providing a minimum support price to the farmers’.
Distinguish between a centrally planned economy and a market economy.
Distinguish between microeconomics and macroeconomics.
What do you mean by the production possibilities of an economy?
Discuss the subject matter of economics.
What is a production possibility frontier?
Discuss the central problems of an economy.
What do you understand by positive economic analysis?
Explain the concept of a production function
What would be the shape of the demand curve so that the total revenue curve is?
(a) A positively sloped straight line passing through the origin?
(b) A horizontal line?
Explain market equilibrium.
What are the characteristics of a perfectly competitive market?
What do you mean by the budget set of a consumer?
What is the total product of input?
From the schedule provided below calculate the total revenue, demand curve and the price elasticity of demand:
Quantity |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
Marginal Revenue |
10 |
6 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
- |
When do we say that there is an excess demand for a commodity in the market?
How are the total revenue of a firm, market price, and the quantity sold by the firm related to each other?
What is budget line?
Let the production function of a firm be Q=5L1/2K1/2Q=5L1/2K1/2 Find out the maximum possible output that the firm can produce with 100 units of LL and 100 units of KK.
Why does the SMC curve cut the AVC curve at the minimum point of the AVC curve?
Explain how price is determined in a perfectly competitive market with a fixed number of firms.
Will the monopolist firm continue to produce in the short run if a loss is incurred at the best short run level of output?
Will a profit-maximising firm in a competitive market ever produce a positive level of output in the range where the marginal cost is falling? Give an explanation.
Compute the total revenue, marginal revenue and average revenue schedules in the following table. Market price of each unit of the good is Rs 10.
Quantity Sold | TR | MR | AR |
---|---|---|---|
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 |
Explain market equilibrium.
What is meant by prices being rigid? How can oligopoly behavior lead to such an outcome?
A firm earns a revenue of Rs 50 when the market price of a good is Rs 10. The market price increases to Rs 15 and the firm now earns a revenue of Rs 150. What is the price elasticity of the firm’s supply curve?
What are the characteristics of a perfectly competitive market?