A. Only countries with low wages will export
B. Only countries with high wages will import
C. Countries with high wages will have higher prices
D. All of the above are false
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - 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 - 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 - Macroeconomic theory that emphasized the theories of Keynes and de-emphasized the classical theory developed as the result of the failure of ?
A. economic theory to explain the simultaneous increases in inflation and unemployment during the 1970s
B. The classical model to explain the prolonged existence of high unemployment during the Great Depression
C. fine tuning during the 1960s
D. the economy to grow at a rapid rate during the 1950s - The classical trade theories of Smith and Ricardo predict that ?
A. Countries will completely specialize in the production of export goods
B. Considerable trade will occur between countries with different levels of technology
C. Small countries could obtain of the gains from trade when trading with large countries
D. All of the above - In the classical model of Ricardo, the direction of trade is determined by ?
A. Absolute advantage
B. Comparative advantage
C. Physical advantage
D. Which way the wind blows - The Heckscher-Ohl in model rules out the classical model’s basis for trade by assuming that _________ is (are) identical between countries?
A. factor endowments
B. factor intensities
C. technology
D. opportunity costs - Should international transportation costs decrease the effect on international trade would include a (an) ?
A. increase in the volume of trade
B. Smaller gain from trade
C. Decline in the income of home producers
D. Decrease in the level of specialization in production - 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 - 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
