International A Level Unit 3, May 2023

Q1 Identify the form of integration when two Indian entertainment production companies agreed to combine in 2022.

Q2 Deduce what must hold as output expands along the falling stretch of a firm's long-run average cost curve.

Q3 Work out the marginal cost of hiring one extra worker when all 50 staff move from $1 500 to $1 600 weekly.

Q4 Deduce short-run profit and the long-run change in firm numbers from a diagram of a perfectly competitive firm.

Q5 Identify the output level at which a German electricity supplier would maximise its total revenue.

Q6 Identify what would deter entry into diamond mining in Botswana (subsidies / sunk costs / light regulation / low concentration).

Q7(a) Work out how much Deliveroo's total revenue changed in percentage terms over the years 2017 to 2021.

Q7(b) Explain what the 2021 market shares reveal about how competitive UK food delivery is.

Q7(c) Analyse two influences on consumer demand for meals ordered and delivered online.

Q7(d) Examine two causes of Deliveroo's losses, using its revenue and cost data, with a diagram.

Q7(e) Discuss, using game theory, the tactics delivery firms use to win a bigger share of the market.

Q10 Evaluate why smaller firms may pursue different goals from large ones, given Malaysian SMEs reluctant to expand.

Q8 Evaluate the effects of capping pay, given Egypt's 2015 salary ceiling and the resulting banking resignations.

Q9 Evaluate what happens when a profit-maximising monopoly is taken into state ownership, as with EDF in France.