CIE A LEVEL ECONOMICS

TOPICAL PAST PAPER QUESTIONS

PAPER 2, SECTION B & C ONLY

7.0 The price system and the microeconomy

7.1 Utility
7.2 Indifference curves and budget lines
7.3 Efficiency and market failure
7.4 Private costs and benefits, externalities and social costs and benefits
7.5 Types of cost, revenue and profit, short-run and long-run production
7.6 Different market structures
7.7 Growth and survival of firms
7.8 Differing objectives and policies of firms

8.0 Government microeconomic intervention

8.1 Government policies to achieve efficient resource allocation and correct market failure
8.2 Equity and redistribution of income and wealth
8.3 Labour market forces and government intervention

9.0 The macroeconomy

9.1 The circular flow of income
9.2 Economic growth and sustainability
9.3 Employment/unemployment
9.4 Money and banking

10.0 Government macroeconomic intervention

10.1 Government macroeconomic policy objectives
10.2 Links between macroeconomic problems and their interrelatedness
10.3 Effectiveness of policy options to meet all macroeconomic objectives

11.0 International economic issues

11.1 Policies to correct disequilibrium in the balance of payments
11.2 Exchange rates
11.3 Economic development
11.4 Characteristics of countries at different levels of development
11.5 Relationship between countries at different levels of development
11.6 Globalisation