A. increases
B. decreases
C. does not change
D. None of the above
Related Mcqs:
- According to the Marshall-Lerner condition if a country’s currency depreciates its trade balance will worsen if ?
A. elasticity of demand for exports = 0.9; elasticity of demand for imports = 0.4
B. elasticity of demand for exports = 0.7; elasticity of demand for imports = 0.3
C. elasticity of demand for exports = 0.5; elasticity of demand for imports = 0.7
D. elasticity of demand for exports = 0.3; elasticity of demand for imports = 0.6 - If the economy is in the expansionary phase of the business cycle, aggregate demand ____ unemployment ____ inflation ____ payments is likely to move towards ____?
A. falls; rise; falls; surplus
B. is static; low; rise; deficit;
C. falls; falls; falls; surplus
D. rise; falls; rises; deficit - 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 - If the economy is in the recessionary phase of the business cycle, aggregate demand ___ unemployment ____ inflation ___ and the current account of the balance of payments is likely to move towards ____?
A. falls; falls; falls; surplus
B. is static; low; rises; deficit
C. falls; rises; falls; surplus
D. rises; falls; rises; deficit - 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 - Compared to what occurred under free trade, Mexico’s producer surplus ____ and consumer surplus ____ as a result of the subsidy Use the figure that you have plotted to calculate the amounts ?
A. decreases, decreases
B. decreases, increases
C. increases, decreases
D. increases, increases - 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 - when the level of income _________ there will be a tendency for the trade balance to improve as imports?
A. increase, increase
B. falls, increase
C. falls, fall
D. increase, fall - 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 - If the income tax rate changes from 30% to 40% on income over Rs30,000 and a person’s income is Rs 31,000 then her marginal tax rate is ?
A. 30%
B. 10%
C. 70%
D. 40%
