4TH YR. LEVEL - EASY ROUND

_______ are examples of fixed- income securities.

• Mortgages and pension annuities

• Mutual funds and common stock

• Preferred stock and common stock

• Domestic stock and growth stock

____ is where the discount rate is the rate at which the present value of a bond's stream of guaranteed cash payments equals its price.

• Yield to maturity

• Coupon rate

• Current yield

   

• Par value

The condition in which the ability of a single person or firm to unduly influence market prices.

• Competitive Market

• Market Power

• Market Size

• Price Taker

• Market Failure

The type of monopoly in which the government grants the private firm over the product to produce.

• Legal Monopoly

• Natural Monopoly

• Monopsony

• None of the above

• Coercive Monopoly

Single-peaked preferences are expected to emerge when there are private substitutes for publicly provided goods.

• True

• False

• Sometimes True

• Sometimes False

The main goal of expenditure policy is to always achieve a greater substitution effect.

• True

• False

• Sometimes True

• Sometimes False

When the demand for widgets is inelastic, and the price of widgets increase, revenues will:

• Decrease

• Remain the same

• Increase

• Increase, unless there are substitutes for widgets

Among the following, which shifts the supply curve to the left?

• An improvement in technology that decreases the cost of production.

• An increase in the number of suppliers.

• An anticipated drought that will make inputs more expensive.

• A decrease in the wage rate.

Who is the current president of World Bank?

• Gita Gopinath

• David Malpass

• Jim Yong Kim

• Kristalina Georgieva

Which of these following countries does not belong to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)?

• Philippines

• USA

• India

• Papua New Guinea