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6. What are the conditions of a competitive market?

  • Lots of producers, low market share
  • Few producers, low market share
  • Lots of producers, high market share

7. Which of these is an inactive labour supply?

  • Unemployed people
  • Short term sick
  • Unpaid workers (volunteers)
  • Those on government schemes
  • Employees

8. What is demand for labour dependent on?

  • Demand for goods and services
  • Supply of labour
  • Prices of goods and services

9. Which of these is NOT an impact of low competition on producers?

  • Can use profits to innovate (improve/change)
  • Can set price limits to prevent unreasonable prices
  • Make large profits
  • Can produce cheaper

10. Why do oligopolies not use non-price competition?

  • Smaller firms would overtake larger firms
  • It could lead to a price war
  • It could lead to a wage-price spiral

11. Non-competitive markets are bad for consumers, because...

  • Their prices are lower
  • It can lead to inefficiencies
  • They have higher innovation
  • The environment is elastic

12. Which of these is NOT an impact of low competition on consumers?

  • Higher tax revenue
  • Higher prices charged
  • No drive for businesses to improve quality of innovation
  • Little choice

13. Which of these is a reason why oligopolies have high control over consumers?

  • High prices
  • Brand loyalty
  • Low barriers to entry

14. What is the difference between wages and salary?

  • Wages are a variable, hourly rate paid to workers, whereas a salary is a set amount paid to a worker for the year regardless of the number of hours spent working
  • Salaries are a variable, hourly rate paid to workers, whereas a wage is a set amount paid to a worker for the year regardless of the number of hours spent working
  • A salary is the total number of wages paid per day

15. Which of these is NOT a barrier to entry of a monopoly?

  • Control over physical resources
  • Artificial barriers
  • Legal barriers
  • Trademark and copyright protection
  • Economies of scale (natural monopoly)

16. Differentiation in non-competitive markets is...

  • Low
  • High

17. The environment is __, because there is subtle differentiation between products

  • Inelastic
  • Elastic