A. Explains why the United States might export autos and import clothing
B. Explains why the United States might export and import differentiated versions of the same product such as different types of autos
C. Assumes that transport costs are very low or do not exist
D. ignores seasonal considerations for agricultural goods
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - 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 - A firm in perfectly competitive industry is producing 50 units, its profit-maximising quantity. Industry price is £2 and total fixed costs and total variable cost are £25 and £40 respectively. The firm’s economic profit is ?
A. £35
B. £15
C. £30
D. £60 - Suppose an industry emits a negative externality such a pollution and the possible methods to internalize the externality are command-and-control policies, pigovian taxes, and tradable pollution permits. If economists were to rank these methods for internalizing a negative externality based on efficiency ease of implementation and the incentive for the industry to further reduce pollution in the future, they would probably rank them in the following order (from most favored to least favored) ?
A. Pigouvian taxes, command-and-control policies, tradable pollution permits.
B. tradable pollution permits, Pigouvian taxes, command-and-control policies
C. tradable pollution permits command-and-control policies, Pigovian taxes.
D. command-and-control policies, tradable pollution permits, Pigovian taxes.
E. They would all rank equally high because the same result can be obtained from any one of the policies - Shortly after 1979 World Bank introduced loans that emphasized reforms in trade, agriculture industry public enterprise financial energy education or other sectors and were know as ?
A. Structural adjustment loans
B. sectoral adjustment loans
C. internal adjustment loans
D. external leverage loans - Shortly after 1979 World Bank introduced loans that emphasized reforms in trade, agriculture industry public enterprise financial energy education or other sectors and were known as ?
A. Structural adjustment loans
B. sectoral adjustment loans
C. internal adjustment loans
D. external leverage loans - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 2000Submitted by: Syed Nizakat Ali Shah
