A. relatively small; more difficult
B. relatively small; easier
C. relatively large; more difficult
D. relatively large; easier
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - In the Px = export price index, Pm = import price index, Qx = export quantity index,and Qm = import quantity index. Developing countries tend to maintain that their commodity term of trade have declined over the long run suggesting that _________ has declined?
A. Px/Pm
B. Pm/Px
C. (Pm/Px)Qm
D. (Px/Pm)Qx - A(n) ________ is n example of a quota where foreigners hold quota licenses ?
A. export quota
B. embargo
C. auction quota
D. tariff quota - Micheal Roemer’s three-sector model shows that growth in the booming export sector I- reduces the price of foreign exchange II- retards other sectors’ growth by reducing incentives to export other commodities III- reduces incentives to replace domestic goods for imports IV- raises factor and input prices for non-booming sectors ?
A. I and III only
B. II and III only
C. I, II and III only
D. I, II , III only IV - To reduce imports, suppose that the government of Norway’s imposes a quota equal to 800 computers, Compared to what occurred under free 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. increase, increase
B. increase, decrease
C. decrease, increase
D. decrease, decrease - The booming of North Seas’ gas export revenues in the 1970s that appreciated the guilder, making industrial export more costly in foreign currencies and increasing foreign competition and unemployment is known as ?
A. Trade deficit
B. Blind river disease
C. Dutch disease
D. Economic turmoil - To stabilize the prices of primary products international commodity agreements have utilized all of the following except ?
A. tariff-rate quotas applied to imported goods
B. production and export controls
C. buffer stocks
D. multilateral contracts - A ____ is a regional trading bloc in Which member countries eliminate internal trade barriers but maintain existing barriers against countries that are not member ?
A. free trade area
B. customs union
C. common market
D. monetary union - Common market is an agreement between two or more countries. What this agreement permits ?
A. Free movement of capital and labor
B. Free movement of goods and services
C. Both of them
D. None of them - In the economy when a steel producer sells steel to car producer it is regarded as ?
A. a final good
B. an intermediate good
C. an injection
D. a leakage
