A firm charging different buyers’ different prices for the same product is practicing ?

A. competitive pricing.
B. price discrimination
C. price discounting.
D. price fixing.

Privatization is the transfer of ?

A. corporately owned businesses to individuals
B. publicly held stock to private individuals.
C. government businesses to the private sector
D. privately owned businesses to the government sector

De-regulation is where the government ?

A. removes barriers to entry
B. imposes higher standards of conduct
C. removes barriers to entry and minimum product quality standards
D. breaks up private sector monopolies.

In the country X it is now becoming possible to buy electricity from a gas company and gas from an electricity company. This is called ?

A. deregulation
B. making markets contestable
C. natural monopoly.
D. cross-subsidization.

Which of the following must be true about a signal that is used to reveal private information in order for the signal to be effective ?

A. It must be “as seen on tv”
B. It must be free to the signaling party
C. It must be costly to the signaling party but less costly to the party with higher-quality product
D. It must be applied to an inexpensive product

Which of the following best demonstrates the problem of moral hazard ?

A. Josephine doesn’t buy health insurance because it is too expensive, and she is healthy
B. A life insurance company forces enzo to have a medical examination prior to selling him insurance
C. Enzo drives more reckleSSLy after he buys car insurance
D. Fatima chooses to attend a well-respected college

Suppose that 40 percent of the voting population wish to spent Rs1,000 for artwork in City Hall, 25 percent wish to spent Rs20,000 and 35 percent wish to spend Rs 22,000 What is the median preferred outcome, the average preferred outcome and the modal preferred outcome ?

A. Rs20,000; rs20,000; rs22,000
B. Rs1,000; rs14,333; rs1,000
C. Rs20,000; rs13,100; rs1,000
D. Rs1,000; rs20,000; rs22,000

Which of the following is not true about how people make decisions ?

A. People give too much weight to a small number of vivid observations
B. People are sometimes too sure of their own abilities
C. All of these answers are actually true statements about how people make decisions.
D. People are always rational maximizers

Which of the following help explain why firms pay bonuses to workers during particularly profitable years to prevent workers from becoming disgruntled ?

A. People are rational maximizers
B. People are reluctant to change their minds
C. People are inconsistent over time
D. People care about fairness

Spending on motoring as a % of household expenditure in the UK shows that motoring is ?

A. environmentally damaging
B. an inferior good
C. a potential public good
D. a superior good