A. Adam Smith
B. David Ricardo
C. John Stuart Mill
D. Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin
Related Mcqs:
- According to the factor endowment model of Heckscher and Ohlin, countries heavily endowed with land will ?
A. Devote excessive amounts of resources to agricultural production
B. Devote insufficient amounts of resources to agricultural production
C. Export products that are land-intensive
D. Import products that are land-intensive - The factor endowment theory was pioneered by ?
A. Adam smith
B. David Ricardo
C. Wassily Leontief
D. Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin - 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 - 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 - According to the factor price equalization theorem, the ________ factor should oppose free. trade policies in any given country?
A. abundant
B. scarce
C. neither
D. can’t tell without more information - Which factor of production in the United States is most likely to be made worse off (its factor payment will decrease) because of the North American Free Trade Agreement ?
A. Capital
B. land
C. skilled labor
D. unskilled labor - Which round of international trade negotiations resulted in the creation of the World Trade Organization ?
A. Kennedy Round of 1964-1967
B. Tokyo Round of 1973-1979
C. Uruguay Round of 1986-1993
D. Doha Round of 2003-2007 - 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 - The trade model of the Swedish economies Heckscher and Ohlin maintains that ?
A. Absolute advantage determines the distribution of the gains from trade
B. Comparative advantage determines the distribution of the gains from trade
C. The division of labor is limited by the size of the world market
D. A country exports goods for which its resource endowments are most suited - 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
