1. Evaluate the microeconomic and macroeconomic impact on the UK economy due to a decline in the level of public investment.
2. Evaluate the impact of rising house prices on both the macro-economy and the micro-economy.
3. Evaluate the extent to which profit maximization is the most important objective influencing the activities of a firm in the real world.
4. Discuss how firms within an oligopolistic market compete
5. Discuss whether monopoly is always an undesirable form of market structure.
6. Evaluate the view that only producers and not consumers, benefit when oligopolistic firms collude to try to reduce the uncertainty they experience.
7. Explain why contestable markets generally function more efficiently than non-contestable markets.
8. In the past, utility industries such as the postal service, electricity and gas, have been heavily protected by entry barriers. Evaluate the possible effects on efficiency and resource allocation of removing these barriers.
9. Evaluate the view that, because price discrimination enables firms to make more profit, firms, but not consumers, benefit from price discrimination.
10. Evaluate different ways in which governments could make markets more competitive.
11. Discuss the extent to which new technology, such as the internet, has increased or decreased the competitiveness of markets.
12. Discuss the impact of deregulation on the local bus industry in Great Britain
13. Evaluate the view that the government should give financial assistance to firms producing cars in the UK to increase their competitiveness.
14. Evaluate the view that government intervention can correct all the market failures caused by the effects of economic activity on the environment.
15. In some European countries, price controls are imposed upon pharmaceutical companies. Discuss the case for government intervention to control market prices.
16. Discuss whether the government should ever consider nationalising privatised industries?
17. Assess the case for and against the government intervening to raise the disposable income of workers on low pay.
18. Do you agree that if a trade union persuades employers to increase wages in a labour market, employment must inevitably fall in that labour market? Justify your answer?
19. Assess three labour market policies which might be used to increase the level of employment amongst incapacity claimants and lone parents on benefits.
20. Discuss the impact of net migration on UK labour markets
21. Discuss the relative merits of welfare benefits and taxes for reducing relative poverty in the UK.r