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DISTANCE EDUCATION

M.B.A. (S and PM) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2011.

First Semester

MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS

(2005 onwards)

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

PART A — (5  8 = 40 marks)

Answer any FIVE questions.

1. 
   Explain the Business environment.
   
2. 
   What are the economic tools used in managerial economies?
   
3. 
   Explain the function ‘‘Suppliers’’.
   
4. 
   Explain the types of consumer goods.
   
5. 
   What you mean by explicit cost and implicit cost?
   
6. 
   What are the aspects of cost control?
   
7. 
   What are the features of monopoly?
   
8. 
   Explain the objectives of price discrimination.
   

PART B — (4  15 = 60 marks)

Answer any FOUR questions.

9. 
   What are the function of an economist?
   
10. 
    What are the factors determine the demand?
    
11. 
    What are the objectives of Advertisement?
    
12. 
    Explain the Marshall Economic Scales.
    
13. 
    What are the comparisons used in ratio analysis?
    
14. 
    How to determine distributors discounts?
    
15. 
    What are the methods used to contain inflation?
    
    
    

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DE–1868

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DISTANCE EDUCATION

M.B.A(S & PM) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2011.

First Semester

ECONOMICS OF SEA TRANSPORTATION

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

PART A — (5  8 = 40 marks)

Answer any FIVE questions.

1. 
   How do currents and tides affect trade and shipping?
   
2. 
   How does shipping industry face competition from other modes of transport?
   
3. 
   What are the factors to be considered while determining cost of sea transport?
   
4. 
   Write a note on tanker market in the international trade.
   
5. 
   What are the advantages of ship canals and waterways?
   
6. 
   Difference in comparative costs accounts for existence of foreign trade-Explain.
   
7. 
   State the objectives of exchange rate control.
   
8. 
   Explain the pattern of trade through sea transport.