A. tariff-rate quotas applied to imported goods
B. production and export controls
C. buffer stocks
D. multilateral contracts
Related Mcqs:
- An export quota agreement to stabilize the price of bauxite tends to be more successful when the member producer countries as a percentage of the world’s producer countries is __________ and the _________ it is for the member producer countries to store/stock pile bauxite?
A. relatively small; more difficult
B. relatively small; easier
C. relatively large; more difficult
D. relatively large; easier - Because supply and demand conditions for primary products are very price inelastic their prices ?
A. have been steadily rising in recent decades
B. have been more stable than the prices of manufactured goods
C. fluctuate about as much as the prices of manufactured goods
D. tend to be very unstable from year to year - Export primary commodity concentration ratios are ?
A. commodity exports as a percentage of GDP per capita of exporting country divided by importing country
B. export earnings as a ratio of population
C. total merchandise export divided by Gross National Income
D. food, raw materials minerals and organic oils and fat as a percentage of total merchandise exports - Suppose that the world price of tin is above the target (ceiling) price that is defined by an international commodity agreement. To move the world price toward the target price, a buffer stock agreement would require its buffer stock manager to ____ tin and an export quota agreement would require that member countries _________ their export of tin?
A. purchase; decrease
B. purchase; increase
C. sell; increase
D. sell; decrease - ________ is setting the price steps between various products in a product the based on cost difference between the products, customer evaluations of different features, and competitors prices ?
A. Optional-product pricing
B. Captive-product pricing
C. Product line pricing
D. By-product pricing - For the oil-importing countries, the increase in oil prices in 1970s and early 2000s contributed to all of the following except ?
A. balance of trade deficits
B. price inflation
C. constrained economic growth
D. improving terms of trade - When supply exceeds demand, sellers must lower prices to stimulate sales, when demand exceeds supply, prices increase as buyers compete to buy goods. What this theory is called in economics?
A. Cost push theory
B. Supply and Demand theory
C. Fundamental theory
D. Ricardo’s theory - In certain industries Japanese employers hesitate to lay off workers Therefore they sometimes have excess supplies of goods that they cannot sell on the home market without lowering prices. To hold down losses they sell goods in overseas markets at prices well beneath those in japan This practice is best referred to as ?
A. Orderly marketing
B. trigger pricing
C. domestic content pricing
D. dumping - Real GDP is measured in __________ prices while nominal GDP is measured in _________ prices?
A. foreign; domestic
B. current year; base year
C. domestic; foreign
D. base year; current year
E. intermediate; final - If input price prices adjusted very rapidly to output prices as classical economists argue the Philips curve would be ?
A. Vertical or nearly vertical
B. upward sloping
C. downward sloping
D. horizontal or nearly horizontal
