WorksheetsMicroeconomics
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is the branch of economics that deals with the choices made by individuals and businesses within the economy?
Macroeconomics
Microeconomics
Managerial economics
Development economics
What would be the opportunity cost of buying a car instead of going on a holiday?
The benefit of the car
The price of the car
The cost of the holiday
The value of the holiday
What happens when variable factors of production are added to fixed factors according to the law of diminishing returns?
Overall output decreases
Overall output remains constant
Overall output becomes unpredictable
Overall output increases
What do we call the magical force that determines prices in markets?
Visible hand
Price control
Market regulation
Invisible hand
In economic systems, what do markets not depend on in order for producers and consumers to come together?
Physical locations
Human interaction
Perfect knowledge
Remote communication
Who laid the groundwork for the formal analysis of supply and demand, and thus the determination of prices in markets?
John Maynard Keynes
Alfred Marshall
Karl Marx
Adam Smith
What determines the level of demand for a good or service?
Income alone
Just tastes and preferences
Various factors including price, income, tastes, and preferences
Only price
What happens to the quantity demanded when the price of a good increases, assuming other determinants are constant?
Quantity demanded stays the same
Quantity demanded goes down
Quantity demanded goes up
Quantity demanded becomes unpredictable
What do we call the responsiveness of quantity demanded or supplied to a change in price?
Cross elasticity
Income elasticity
Price elasticity
Unitary elasticity
Where can you find the sweet spot where supply and demand meet in a market?
Right next to the equilibrium price
At the equilibrium price
Just below the equilibrium price
Above the equilibrium price
What is considered to be cool in capitalist systems, but not permitted for all goods and services required by society?
Government regulation
Private ownership
Market intervention
Free trade
What do you call the concept that deals with how demand or supply changes in response to changes in income?
Cross elasticity
Income elasticity
Unitary elasticity
Price elasticity
What is the relationship between quantity supplied and price, assuming other influences are constant?
Vertical
Horizontal
Downward sloping
Upward sloping
What do we call the responsiveness of the quantity demanded or supplied of good X to a change in the price of good Y?
Price elasticity
Unitary elasticity
Income elasticity
Cross elasticity
What do you call the concept that deals with the responsiveness of quantity demanded or supplied to a change in price, causing no change in total revenue?
Price elasticity
Unitary elasticity
Income elasticity
Cross elasticity
