Question 1 :
______ cost consists of only those payments which are actually made by the firm.
- variable
- Accounting
- Average
- None of these
Question 2 :
In long–run all costs are ______.
- Social
- variable
- Private
- None of these
Question 3 :
Under constant costs conditions LAC and LMC curves tend to ______.
- Private
- coinside
- Social
- None of these
Question 4 :
Minimum point of the LAC curve implies ______ plant size.
- Social
- Optimum
- Private
- None of these
Question 5 :
______ costs are incorporated in the firm’s total cost of production.
- Social
- Private
- fixed
- None of these
Question 6 :
Environmental distraction is a ______ cost.
- fixed
- None of these
- Social
- Private
Question 7 :
______ are direct contractual monetary payments incurred through market transactions.
- Fixed cost
- None of these
- Explicit costs
- total cost
Question 8 :
______ remain fixed at any level of output in the short run.
- Explicit costs
- None of these
- Fixed cost
- total cost
Question 9 :
______ curve is regarded as the long-run planning device.
- None of these
- LAC
Question 10 :
______ is the total expenditure incurred by the firm in producing a given level of output.
- Average fixed cost
- None of these
- total cost
- fixed cost
Question 11 :
______ refers to the total expenditure made by the firm on the variable factor in short run.
- Prime cost
- fixed cost
- All of the above
- total variable cost
Question 12 :
Marginal cost is also referred as ______.
- Supplementary
- fixed cost
- All of the above
- Incremental cost
Question 13 :
Fixed costs are ______ cost.
- Prime
- Incrementalt
- All of the above
- Supplementary
Question 14 :
Variable costs are ______ cost.
- Prime
- Incrementalt
- All of the above
- Prime
Question 15 :
Private cost is included in ______.
- All of the above
- Price
Question 16 :
______ is the total cost per unit of output.
- fixed cost
- Total cost
- All of the above
- Average cost
Question 17 :
Marginal cost is an ______ cost.
- Total cost
- fixed cost
- All of the above
- Additional
Question 18 :
______ is the summation of TFC and TVC.
- Average cost
- fixed cost
- All of the above
- Total cost
Question 19 :
A short-run average cost curve is known as ______.
- All of the above
- Plant curve
Question 20 :
In long-run all costs are ______.
- variable
- fixed
- Average
- None of these
Question 21 :
The MC curve intersects AC curve at its ______ point from below.
- minimum
- Maximum
- None of these
Question 22 :
______ economies causes LAC curve to fall.
- Internal
- external
- None of these
Question 23 :
Net ______ causes LAC curve to rise.
- Diseconomies
- economies
- None of these
Question 24 :
______ economies causing downward shift of the LAC curve.
- External
- Internal
- None of these
Question 25 :
______ economies reflect in reducing the overall cost function of the firm.
- External
- Intaernal
- All of the above
Question 26 :
______ is attributed to the diseconomies of scale after a certain point of further expansion.
- Increasing LAC
- decreasing LAC
- All of the above
Question 27 :
Economies and diseconomies of large scale play a significant role in determining the shape of the ______.
- K. J. Arrow
- LAC curve
- None of these
Question 28 :
Learning curve was developed by ______.
- LAC curve
- K. J. Arrow
- None of these
Question 29 :
The ______ is measured by the shift in the LAC with respect to cumulative output change.
- Learning effect
- None of these
Question 30 :
Fixed costs refer to Labour costs.
- TRUE
- FALSE