# 153 Economics A Level Topical Solved Paper 3

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Examinations Economics A Level Topical Solved Paper. Multiple Choice Questions from past examinations are sorted into relevant chapters and topics which will enable students to practice their understanding systematically.  

  

### 153 Economics A Level Topical Solved Paper 3

  

  
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### **TABLE OF CONTENTS**

  
**UNIT 1 THEORY OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR**  
1.1 (a) LDMU-Meaning  
1.1 (b) LDMU-Diagram  
1.1 (c) LDMU-Numericals  
1.1 (d) LEMU-Meaning  
1.1 (e) LEMU-Numericals  
1.2 (a) Budget Line  
1.2 (b) Indifference curves  
1.2 (c) Changes in consumer equilibrium  
1.2 (d) Types of goods  
1.3 Others  
**ANSWER SECTION**  
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UNIT 2 PRODUCTION & COST**  
2.1 (a) LDR-Meaning  
2.1 (b) LDR-Diagrams  
2.1 (c) LDR-Numericals  
2.2 (a) Accounting cost and economic cost  
2.2 (b) SR Costs-Meaning and definitions  
2.2 (c) SR Costs-Numericals  
2.2 (d) SR Costs-Relationship between curves  
2.3 Relationship between short-run cost and LDR  
2.4 (a) Long run production function  
2.4 (b) Least-cost inputs mix  
2.4 (c) Isocost and isoquant approach  
2.4 (d) Returns to scale  
2.5 (a) Internal economies and dis economies of scale  
2.5 (b) LRAC and minimum efficient scale  
2.6 (a) External economies and dis economies of scale  
2.7 Small firms  
2.8 (a) Internal growth  
2.8 (b) External growth  
2.9 Others  
**ANSWER SECTION**  
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UNIT 3 MARKET STRUCTURE PART 1**  
3.1 Prince marker behavior and revenue curves  
3.2 (a) Profit maximization rule-Diagrams  
3.2 (b) Profit maximization rule-Numericals  
3.3 Short run prince and output determination  
3.4 Long run prince and output determination  
3.5 Survival of a firm in short-run and long-run  
3.6 Theory of excess capacity  
**ANSWER SECTION**

**UNIT 4 MARKET STRUCTURE PART 2**  
4.1 Features of oligopoly  
4.2 Kinked demand curve  
4.3 Game theory  
4.4 Price collusion  
4.5 Determinants of strength of collusion  
**ANSWER SECTION**

**UNIT 5 MARKET STRUCTURE PART 3**  
5.1 (a) Revenue maximization  
5.1 (b) Coincidence of profit and revenue maximization  
5.1 (c) MC pricing and other government interventions in markets  
5.1 (d) Other objectives  
5.1 (e) Principle-agent problem  
5.2 (a) Price discrimination-Meaning  
5.2 (b) Price discrimination-Conditions  
5.2 (c) Price discrimination-Consequences  
5.3 Barriers to entry and exit  
5.4 Comparison of market structures  
5.5 Contestable markets  
5.6 Advantages and disadvantages of monopoly  
5.7 others  
**ANSWER SECTION**

**UNIT 6 ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY**  
6.1 (a) Technical efficiency and X-Efficiency  
6.1 (b) Dynamic efficiency  
6.2 Allocative efficiency  
6.3 PPC and economic efficiency  
6.4 Pareto optimality  
6.5 Economic efficiency vs equity  
**ANSWER SECTION**

**UNIT 7 MARKET FAILURE**  
7.1 Causes of market failure  
**ANSWER SECTION**  
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UNIT 8 GOVERNMENT MICROECONOMICS INTERVENTION**  
8.1 Government policies to correct market failure  
8.2 Government failure  
8.3 Cost benefit analysis (CBA)  
**ANSWER SECTION**  
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UNIT 9 LABOUR MARKET  
**9.1 (a) Supply curve for an individual worker  
9.1 (b) The market supply curve for labor  
9.1 (c) Marginal cost of labor-Numericals  
9.2 MRP Theory  
9.3 (a) Wage determination in perfect market-Numericals  
9.3 (b) Wage determination in perfect market-Diagrams  
9.4 (a) Wage determination in monopsony  
9.4 (b) Wage determination with trade union  
9.4 (c) Strength of trade union  
9.5 Wage differentials  
9.6 Transfer earnings and economic rent  
9.7 National minimum wage  
9.8 Others  
**ANSWER SECTION**

**UNIT 10 GLOBALIZATION**  
10.1 Consequences of formation of trading blocs  
10.2 Others  
**ANSWER SECTION**  
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UNIT 11 BALANCE OF PAYMENTS**  
**ANSWER SECTION**

**UNIT 12 EXCHANGE RATE**  
12.1 Trade weighted exchange rate  
12.2 Exchange rate systems  
12.3 (a) Effects of exchange rate changes  
12.3 (b) Marshal learner condition and J curve  
**ANSWER SECTION**

**UNIT 13 AGGREGATE EXPENDITURE & MULTIPLIER**  
13.1 Components of aggregate expenditure  
13.2 Changes in marginal and average propensities  
13.3 NIE-Numericals  
13.4 Inflationary/Deflationary gaps  
13.5 (a) Multiplier-Meaning  
13.5 (b) Multiplier-Diagrams  
13.5 (c) Multiplier-Numericals Level 1  
13.5 (d) Multiplier-Numericals Level 2  
13.5 (e) Multiplier-Strength  
13.6 Accelerator-Meaning  
13.7 Others  
**ANSWER SECTION**

**UNIT 14 MONEY, BANKING AND INTEREST RATE DETERMINATION**  
14.1 (a) Features and functions of money  
14.1 (b) Money supply  
14.2 Types of banks  
14.3 Credit creation-process and functions  
14.4 Changes in money supply  
14.5 Liquidity preference theory (LPT)  
14.6 Determination of interest rate  
14.7 Quantity theory of money (QTM)  
**ANSWER SECTION**

**UNIT 15 EFFECTIVENESS OF MACROECONOMIC POLICIES**  
15.1 Effectiveness of macroeconomic policies  
15.2 Policies to correct current account surplus and defict  
15.3 Policies to reduce unemployment  
15.4 Policies to encourage economic growth  
15.5 The role of automatic stabilisers  
15.6 Laffer curve  
15.7 Tax systems  
15.8 Others  
**ANSWER SECTION**

**UNIT 16 MACROECONOMIC OBJECTIVES**  
16.1 Government economic objectives  
16.2 Links between macroeconomic problems and conflicts of aims  
16.3 Keynesian and monetarist theoretical approaches  
16.4 Others  
**ANSWER SECTION**

**UNIT 17 EMPLOYMENT / UNEMPLOYMENT**  
17.1 Unemployment  
**ANSWER SECTION**

**UNIT 18 ECONOMIC GROWTH & SUSTAINABILITY**  
18.1 Actual and potential growth  
18.2 Causes of economic growth  
18.3 Costs and benefits of growth  
18.4 Inclusive and sustainable growth  
18.5 Output gaps  
**ANSWER SECTION**

**UNIT 19 INCOME DISTRIBUTION**  
19.1 (a) Lorenz curve  
19.1 (b) Gini coefficients  
19.2 policies to redistribute income  
**Answer Section**

**UNIT 20 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PART 1**  
20.1 Living standards  
**ANSWER SECTION**

**UNIT 21 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PART 2 (DEVELOPMENT VS DEVELOPED)**  
21.1 Population structure  
21.2 Economic structure  
21.3 Kuznets curve  
21.4 Poverty trap  
21.5 Other difference developing and developed countries  
**ANSWER SECTION**

**UNIT 22 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PART 3 (RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COUNTRIES)  
ANSWER SECTION**

UNIT 23 UNSORTED  
ANSWER SECTION

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