DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2017.
First Semester
MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS
(Upto 2012 13 Academic Year and 2013 Calendar Year)
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
SECTION A — x 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions.
All questions carry equal marks.
1. How does the study of managerial economics help a
business manager in decision making?
2. Discuss the nature and scope of managerial economics.
3. What is the importance of demand analysis? What are
the different types of demand?
4. Explain briefly the various cost concepts.
5. What is meant by diseconomies of scale? How do different
diseconomies of scale affect the cost of production?
6. Explain the nature and managerial uses of production
function.
7. How does the investment analysis contribute to business
decision making?
8. Discuss the various phases of trade cycle.
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DE-2831
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SECTION B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
All questions carry equal marks.
9. 'Managerial economics serves as a link between
traditional economics and decision sciences for business
decision making'. Elucidate.
10. Explain the factors that determine the market demand
for a commodity.
11. What is meant by break-even analysis? What purpose
does it serve in business decisions?
12. What is price discrimination? How is it advantageous for
a seller to practice price discrimination?
13. Determine the price output combination that will
maximize the profit of a monopolist in the market period
and in the short run period.
14. Describe the various methods of measuring national
income. What kinds of business decisions are influenced
by the change in national income?
15. What are the effects of inflation on wage- earners, fixed
income people, debtors and creditors, producers and
government? Give the reasons for the effects of inflation.