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A-level
ECONOMICS
Paper 3 Economic principles and issues
Materials
For this paper you must have: For Examiner’s Use
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• a calculator.
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Instructions
• Answer all questions. B
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• You will need to refer to the insert provided to answer Section B.
• You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do not write
outside the box around each page or on blank pages.
• Do all rough work in this answer book. Cross through any work that you
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• The maximum mark for this paper is 80.
• The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
• No deductions will be made for wrong answers.
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Answer all questions in this section.
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0 1 Which one of the following applies to merit goods?
A Their marginal private benefit is greater than their marginal social
benefit.
B They are likely to be provided by the market.
C They can only be supplied by the government.
D They have the characteristics of non-excludability and non-rivalry.
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0 2 At the start of the financial year, an economy’s national debt stands at £1000 billion.
Over the course of the year, the government plans to spend an extra £100 billion and
borrow an extra £40 billion.
If the government achieves its spending and borrowing targets, by the end of the financial
year the national debt will have increased by
A 4%
B 10%
C 14%
D 40%
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0 3 The diagram below shows the production possibility frontier for an economy that outside the
produces consumer goods and capital goods. The economy is initially operating at point box
X within its frontier.
If the economy now moves from point X to point Y on its frontier it will
A achieve both productive and allocative efficiency.
B benefit from improved economies of scale in the production of
both goods.
C increase its underlying trend rate of growth.
D obtain more consumer goods and capital goods at zero opportunity
cost.
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0 4 All other things being equal, an increase in the ratio of capital to labour resulting from an
increase in investment is most likely to lead to a
A decline in labour productivity.
B fall in the size of the labour force.
C negative demand-side shock to the economy.
D supply-side improvement.
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0 5 The diagram below shows the demand curve (D) and two supply curves (S1 and S2) in outside the
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the market for renewable energy.
The renewable energy market is initially in equilibrium at a price of OH. The government
then introduces a subsidy for renewable energy.
After the introduction of the subsidy, the total amount of money received by the producers
from both consumers and the government is
A OGME2
B OHLE2
C OHNME2
D OJKE2
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0 6 Which one of the following provides a reason for government intervention in a market?
A Firms in an oligopolistic market may limit price competition.
B Market failures can only be corrected by using regulations.
C Monopolistically competitive firms earn abnormal profits in
the long run.
D Public goods are excludable and rival.
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