The terms of trade measure ?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. International trade forces domestic firms to become more competitive in terms of ?

   A. The introduction of new products
   B. Product design and quality
   C. Product price
   D. All of the above

3. How is termed equal rights of trade of trade without giving monopolies or preferences to an individual country ?

   A. Open door market
   B. Open door country
   C. Open sky market
   D. Free economy

4. 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

5. 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

6. With free trade suppose that the rest of the world can supply computers to Norway at a price of $1,500 Norway’s imports will now equal. Compared to What occurred in the absence of trade, Norway’s consumers surplus will _____ and its producer surplus will ____. Can you calculate these amounts? Try plotting the information of this table on a sheet of graph paper ?

   A. 1,600 computers, decrease, increase
   B. 1,600 computers, increase, decrease
   C. 1,200 computers, decrease, increase
   D. 1,200 computers, increase, decrease

7. Given free trade, small nations tend to benefit the most from trade since they ?

   A. Are more productive than their large trading partners
   B. Are less productive than their large trading partners
   C. Have demand preferences and income levels lower than their large trading partners
   D. Realize terms of trade lying near the MRTs of their large trading partners

8. Under free trade, Canada would not realize any gains from trade with Sweden if Canada ?

   A. Trades at Canada’s marginal rate of transformation
   B. Trade at Sweden’s marginal rate of transformation
   C. Specializes completely in the production of its export good
   D. Specializes partially in the production of its exports goods

9. Which approach predicts that is an economy operates a full employment and faces trade deficit currency devaluation will improve the trade balance only if domestic spending is cut thus freeing resources to produce exports ?

   A. the absorption approaches
   B. the Marshall Lerner approach
   C. the monetary approach
   D. the elasticities approach

10. When did World Trade Organization replace General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?

    A. 1st January 1995
    B. 1st January 1998
    C. 1st December 1999
    D. 1st June 2000

    Submitted by: Syed Nizakat Ali Shah