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
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - New classical theories were an attempt to explain ?
A. how unemployment could have persisted for so long during the Great Depression
B. The increase in the growth rate of real output in the 1950s
C. the stagflation of the 1970s
D. Why policy changes that are perceived as permanent have more of an impact on a person’s behaviour than policy changes that are viewed as temporary. - According to the Classical theory of international trade ?
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 - The comparative advantage model of Ricardo was based on ?
A. intraindustry specialization and trade
B. interindustry specialization and trade
C. demand conditions underlying specialization and trade
D. income conditions underlying specialization and trade - 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 - 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
