Across
- 1. is the medium of exchange in most modern economies
- 6. the collection of firms involved in making a similar range of items that usually compete with each other such as the financial services industry or the car industry
- 7. The quantity of a particular good or service that consumers are willing and able to purchase at various price levels
- 8. remove money from the circular flow of income
- 13. the integration between different countries and economies and the increased impact of international influences on all aspects of life and economic activity
- 14. are good or services that are produced domestically and purchased overseas
- 15. The natural resource used to produce goods and services
- 16. The return factor of production enterprise for its role in the production of goods and services
- 17. money spent to help increase the economy
- 18. when supply and demand are equal
- 19. occurs when an organisation pays another business to perform a function that it does not regard as a core part of its business focus
Down
- 2. a market structure consisting of a few large firms producing slightly different products
- 3. is the case with each financial asset can be transformed into cash so it can be used as a medium of exchange
- 4. the amount of money or other benefits measured in money terms that flows to individuals or households usually for their contribution to the production process or as a direct payment from the government over a period of time
- 5. a single business dominating the industry
- 7. are the profit returns received by the share holders of a business
- 8. a human effort both physical and mental used to produce goods and services
- 9. are costs and benefits that private agents in a market do not consider in their decision-making process
- 10. the process whereby unemployment in the current period results in the persistence of unemployment in future periods as unemployed people can lose their skills job contracts and motivation to work
- 11. the sustained increase in the general level of prices over a period of time usually one year
- 12. occurs when the government sells public trading enterprises to the private sector