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May 2018

Unit: Economics

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1a
Inflation and unemployment
Discuss five negative effects of inflation in an economy.
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1b
Demand, supply and determination of equilibrium
Explain five conditions that could favour effective use of price discrimination in an economy
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2a
Money and banking
Examine four determinants of money supply in an economy
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2b
Economic growth, economic development and economic planning
Explain six reasons why a country might impose international trade restrictions.
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2c
Money and banking
Analyse three roles of International Monetary Fund (IMF) to member countries.
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3a
Demand, supply and determination of equilibrium
The demand of a certain product is represented by the following function
Q = 200 + 5p + p²
Where:

Q is quity of the product
P is the price of the product
Required:
(i) Determine the point elasticity of demand at P Sh20
(ii) Interpret your result in (a)(i) above
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3b
National income
Suggest four reasons why wages in the agricultural sector tend to be lower than wages in the industrial sector.
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3c
Demand, supply and determination of equilibrium
With the aid of a well Labelled diagram explain a normal profit making firm under oligopoly in the short-run:
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3d
Economic growth, economic development and economic planning
Highlight five determinants of economic development in a country
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4a
Demand, supply and determination of equilibrium
With the aid of a well labelled diagram, explain the law of diminishing marginal utility
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4b
Demand, supply and determination of equilibrium
Outline four properties of indifference curves.
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4c
Inflation and unemployment
Discuss five ways in which inflation might cause unemployment in an economy
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5a
Demand, supply and determination of equilibrium
Explain the term "partial equilibrium as used in economics
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5b
Money and banking
Suggest three methods that the government of a country might adopt to strengthen its currency
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5c
Money and banking
​​ Explain five differences between the "quantity theory of money" and the "liquidity preference theory of money"
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5d
National income

With the aid of a diagram, explain why isoquams are negatively sloped

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6a
Demand, supply and determination of equilibrium
With the aid of well labelled diagrams, distinguish between "price floors and price ceilings"
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6b
National income
In a hypothetical economy X, autonomous consumption equals to 800 and the marginal propensity to save equals to 0.25
Required:
(i) Formulate the consumption function
(ii) If the level of investment increased by Sh.1.000 million, determine the change in equilibrium national income
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6c
Demand, supply and determination of equilibrium
With the help of a diagram, justify why the condition that marginal revenue equals to marginal cost (MR-MC) is only a necessary but not a sufficient condition for maximisation.
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7a
Inflation and unemployment
​​ Highlight five negative effects of unemployment in an economy
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7b
Demand, supply and determination of equilibrium
​​ Summarise five consequences of wage control
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7c
Demand, supply and determination of equilibrium
The demand and total cost functions for a hypothetical firm are represented as follows: P = 100
TC = 50 + 8Q²

Where:


P is the price
TC is the total cost
Q is the quantity

Required:

(i) The marginal cost function.
(ii) The average fixed cost function.
(iii) The marginal revenue function.
(iv) The profit maximising level of output.
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