IB Exam Practice Question: Chapter 2: Competitive Markets: Demand and Supply
Q1: Using diagram (s), explain the signaling and incentive functions of price. [10 Marks]
Q2: Explain how an increase in the costs of factors of production would affect the market price and output of a good. [10 Marks]
Q3: Explain how the price mechanism reallocates resources when there is an increase in demand for a good or service. [10 Marks]
Q4: With reference to the concept of excess demand, explain how a decrease in supply of a good would lead to a new market equilibrium. [10 Marks]
Q5: Using a production possibilities curve (PPC) diagram, explain why choices have to be made in all economics. [10 Marks]
Q6: Explain how changes in price work to reallocate resources in a market. [10 Marks]
Q7: Using diagrams, explain how a change in one of the determinants of demand might increase the price of rice and how a change in one of the determinants of supply might decrease the price of rice. [10 Marks]