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Market Failure

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

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Class
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1.

Which of the following is NOT a reason for market failure?

a)

Presence of Public Goods

b)

Presence of Positive Externalities

c)

Perfectly competitive markets

d)

Incomplete markets

2.

Which of the following conditions lead to emergence of natural monopoly?

a)

Low fixed cost

b)

High fixed cost

c)

Low variable cost

d)

High variable cost

3.

When is competition likely to be limited?

a)

No transportation cost

b)

Perfect information to all the participants

c)

Presence of large number of firms

d)

Presence of patents

4.

There is inefficiency (in terms of output) associated with Perfect competition.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

In the presence of natural monopoly, it is profitable to produce output at a point at which Price is equal to Long run marginal cost.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

In Public goods, what is meant by the property of non-rivalry?

a)

Marginal cost of an additional user is high

b)

Marginal cost of an additional user is zero

c)

Marginal cost is high

d)

Marginal cost is zero

7.

Provision of Street-light by markets could lead to :

a)

Undersupply of streetlights

b)

Oversupply of streetlights

c)

Optimal supply of streetlights

d)

No supply of streetlights

8.

Will the firm generating externality depicted by the above diagram, overproduce or underproduce the good?

a)

Overproduce

b)

Underproduce

9.

Which of the following are reasons for markets to be incomplete?

a)

Undersupply of Innovation

b)

Presence of Asymmetric information

c)

Both of them

d)

None of them

10.

What do you understand by the term "market failure"?

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