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This document discusses various concepts related to objective economic and social development, including: 1. Reduction in weight or quality of products sold at the same price. 2. Hedging to avoid risks of loss through techniques like forward sales and purchases allowed by security regulators. 3. Herfindahl Index dealing with concentration of sellers in a particular market. 4. Concepts from game theory where players compete for a total payoff such that gains by one player come at the expense of others. 5. Slope of a line indicating whether interest rates are rising or falling, relating to capital markets. 6. Models evaluating costs and prices of mergers to determine potential benefits and detriments.

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1000 MCQs - Economic & Social Development - Preview

This document discusses various concepts related to objective economic and social development, including: 1. Reduction in weight or quality of products sold at the same price. 2. Hedging to avoid risks of loss through techniques like forward sales and purchases allowed by security regulators. 3. Herfindahl Index dealing with concentration of sellers in a particular market. 4. Concepts from game theory where players compete for a total payoff such that gains by one player come at the expense of others. 5. Slope of a line indicating whether interest rates are rising or falling, relating to capital markets. 6. Models evaluating costs and prices of mergers to determine potential benefits and detriments.

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Objective Economic &

Social Development
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GENERAL STUDIES

Ramesh Singh
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1.10 I Objective Economic & Social Development

1 9. For example, reduction in the weight of a gains by one player are at the direct expense
packet of chocolate sold at the same price as of the other player/players.
before. This may take place in quality, too. 23. The slope of this line suggests whether
20. Hedging is just avoiding the risk of loss-it interest rates are tending to rise or fall. This
may be due to various reasons-one reason is a concept of the Capital Market.
being the price fluctuations. Forward
24. This model evaluates the possible benefits
sales and purchases are allowed by the
(lower costs) and detriments (higher prices)
security regulating bodies in the countries
of a proposed merger.
for hedging-in such situation hedging
becomes legal. 25. This takes place due to the fact that the
21. Herfindahl Index deals with the issue of winning bidder places a higher value on
seller's concentration in a particular market. the asset than all other bidders-ultimately
paying too much for the asset (thus, the
22. The question is based on the Game
curse of winner is that it wins but after
Theory-a situation in which game players
paying very high a cost).
compete for the given total pay-off, so that
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