A. stop the process of product price equalization and factor price equalization before they are complete:
B. ensure that the process of product price equalization and factor price equalization are complete
C. eliminate all of the feasible gains from international trade
D. maximize all of the feasible gains from international trade
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - By adjusting the model of comparative advantage to include transportation costs along with production costs we would expect ?
A. The prices of trade goods to be lower than when there are no transportation costs
B. specialization to stop when the production costs of the trading partners equalize
C. The volume of trade to be less than when there are no transportation costs
D. The gains from trade to be greater than when there are no transportation costs - 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 - 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 - Pricing to cover variable costs and some fixed costs as in the case of some automobile distributorships that sell below total costs is typical of which of the following pricing objectives ?
A. current profit maximization
B. product quality leadership
C. Market share leadership
D. Survival - 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 - Small nations whose trade and financial relationships are mainly with a single partner tend to utilize ?
A. pegged exchange rates
B. freely floating exchange rates
C. managed floating exchange rates
D. crawling exchange rates - 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 - Declining costs per unit of output results from international trade especially if ?
A. International trade affords producers monopoly power
B. National governments levy imports tariffs and quotas
C. Producing goods entails increasing costs
D. Economies of scale exist for producers - 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
