A. The less mobile the country’s resources
B. The more mobile the country’s resources
C. The lower the country’s initial living standard
The higher the country’s initial living standard
Related Mcqs:
- The market power effect of an international joint venture can lead to welfare losses for the domestic economy unless offset by cost reductions. Which type of cost reduction would not lead to offsetting welfare gains for the overall economy ?
A. R&D generating welfare improved technology
B. development of more productive machinery
C. new work rules promoting workers efficiency
D. lower wages extracted from workers - According to the trade theory of Staffan Linder trade tends to be most pronounced in manufactured goods when trading countries have ?
A. similar endowments of natural resources
B. similar levels of technology
C. similar per-capita incomes
D. similar wage levels - International joint ventures can lead to welfare losses when the newly established firm ?
A. adds to the pre-existing productive capacity
B. enters markets neither parent could have entered individually
C. yields cost reductions unavailable to parent firms
D. gives rise to increased amounts of market power - International trade in goods and services tends to ?
A. Increase all domestic costs and prices
B. Keep all domestic costs and prices at the same level
C. Lessen the amount of competition facing home manufacturers
D. Increase the amount of competition facing home manufacturers - When free trade areas are set up the member countries trade with each other grows faster than their trade with other countries This is due to what economist call ?
A. trade diversion
B. trade channeling
C. trade creation and trade diversion
D. trade creation - Suppose that Russia steel firms engage in dumping in the German market in terms of overall economic welfare, German welfare would _______ as the result of the dumping?
A. increase
B. decrease
C. not change
D. None of These - Assume that Country A is relatively abundant in labor and Country B is relatively abundant in land Note that wages are the returns to labor and rents are the returns to land According to the factor price equalization theorem, once Country A begins specializing according to comparative advantage and trading with Country B: A. wages and rents should fall in Country A B. wages and rents should rise in Country A C. wages should rise and rents should fall in Country A D. wages should fall and rents should raise in Country A ?
XA. wages and rents should fall in Country A
B. wages and rents should rise in Country A
C. wages should rise and rents should fall in Country A
D. wages should fall and rents should raise in Country A - Trade creation will more likely outweigh trade diversion for Country X that forms a customs union if the level of tariffs in Country X prior to the customs union is ________ and the total number of countries forming the customs union is _________?
A. relatively high; relatively large
B. relatively high; relatively small
C. relatively low ; relatively large
D. relatively low ; relatively small - Which round of international trade negotiations resulted in the creation of the World Trade Organization ?
A. Kennedy Round of 1964-1967
B. Tokyo Round of 1973-1979
C. Uruguay Round of 1986-1993
D. Doha Round of 2003-2007 - The argument that U.S current account deficits cause net job losses for Americans ?
A. is true by definition in all possible circumstances
B. is supported by recent U.S history
C. focuses only on the overall economy and is thus always true
D. fails to recognize that a current account deficit is matched by an equal inflow of foreign funds which finances employment increasing investment spending
