What do the short-run marginal cost, average variable cost and short-run average cost curves look like?
SMC curve always intersect the AVC curve at its minimum point. This is because to the left of the minimum point of AVC, SMC is below AVC. SMC and AVC both fall but the former falls at a faster rate. At the minimum point K, AVC is equal to SMC. Beyond K, AVC and SMC both rise but the latter rises at a faster rate than the former and also SMC lies above AVC. Therefore, the only point where SMC and AVC are equal is where SMC intersects AVC, i.e., at the minimum point of the AVC curve.
What is the total product of input?
Explain the relationship between the marginal products and the total product of an input.
Why does the SMC curve cut the AVC curve at the minimum point of the AVC curve?
When does a production function satisfy decreasing returns to scale?
The following table gives the total product schedule of labour. Find the corresponding average product and marginal product schedules of labour.
What is the law of diminishing marginal product?
What do the long-run marginal cost and the average cost curves look like?
What are the average fixed cost, average variable cost and average cost of a firm? How are they related?
Briefly explain the concept of the cost function.
What does the average fixed cost curve look like? Why does it look so?
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.
Discuss the central problems of an economy.
What are the characteristics of a perfectly competitive market?
What do you mean by the budget set of a consumer?
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?
What do you mean by the production possibilities of an economy?
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?
What do you mean by a normal good?
What conditions must hold if a profit-maximising firm produces positive output in a competitive market?
What is budget line?
The market demand curve for a commodity and the total cost for a monopoly firm producing the commodity are given in the schedules below.
Quantity |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
Price |
52 |
44 |
37 |
31 |
26 |
22 |
19 |
16 |
13 |
Quantity |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
Price |
10 |
60 |
90 |
100 |
102 |
105 |
109 |
115 |
125 |
Use the information given to calculate the following:
(a) The MIR and MC schedules
(b) The quantities for which MIR and MC are equal
(c) The equilibrium quantity of output and the equilibrium price of the commodity
(d) The total revenue, total cost and total profit in the equilibrium
Discuss the central problems of an economy.
What do you understand by positive economic analysis?
Discuss the subject matter of economics.
What is meant by prices being rigid? How can oligopoly behavior lead to such an outcome?
Comment on the shape of MR curve in case when TR curve is a
(a) Positively sloped straight line
(b) Horizontal straight line
List the three different ways in which oligopoly firms may have.