A. Maximizing domestic efficiency is not considered imports
B. Maximizing consumer welfare may not be a chief priority
C. There exist sound economic reasons for keeping one’s economy isolated from other economies
D. Economists tend to favor high protected domestic markets
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 - 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 - With free trade, suppose that the rest of the world can supply calculators to Canada at a price of $30. Canada’s imports would now equal _____ and its consumer surplus would ____ relative to what occurred in the absence of trade. What is the change in consumer surplus? Refer to the figure that you have plotted ?
A. 20 calculators increase
B. 25 calculators decrease
C. 25 calculators increase
D. 30 calculators increase - 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 - International trade in goods and services is sometimes used as a substitute for all of the following except ?
A. International movements of capital
B. International movements of labor
C. International movements of technology
D. Domestic production of different goods and services - The World Trade Organization is sometimes criticized for all of the following reasons except?
A. it reduces the sovereignty of member countries
B. favors free trade over the quality of the environment
C. it has no way to solve trade disputes among member countries
D. it is a puppet of multinational corporations - David Ricardo’s theory in favor of free trade uses the ideal of ?
A. absolute advantage
B. mutual advantage
C. multilateral advantage
D. comparative advantage - Free trade is based on the principle of ?
A. Comparative advantage
B. Comparative scale
C. Economies of advantage
D. Production possibility advantage - The movement to free international trade is most likely to generate short-term unemployment in which industries ?
A. Industries in which there are neither imports nor exports
B. Imports competing industries
C. Industries that sell to domestic and foreign buyers
D. Industries that sell to only foreign buyers
