A. Economies of large-scale production
B. Relative abundance of various resources
C. Relative costs of labor
D. Research and development expenditures
Related Mcqs:
- According to the Heckscher-Ohlin model the source of comparative advantage is a country’s ?
A. technology
B. advertising
C. factor endowments
D. both (a) and (c) - The Heckscher-Ohlin theorem states that a country will have comparative advantage in the good whose production in relatively intensive in the with which the country is relatively abundant ?
A. tastes
B. technology
C. factor/resource
D. opportunity cost - 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 comparative advantage comes if each trading partners has a product that will bring a better price in another country than it will at home. Which economist proposed the principle of comparative advantage ?
A. Adam Smith
B. David Ricardo
C. David Smith
D. Adam Ricardo - 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 - One of the predictions of the Heckscher-Ohlin model is that ?
A. countries with different factor endowments but similar technologies and preferences will have a strong basis for trade with each other
B. countries with tend to specialize but not completely in their comparative advantage good
C. reciprocal demand leads to an equilibrium terms of trade by inducing change in both demand and supply
D. All of the above - According to the Heckscher-Ohlin model ?
A. everyone automatically gains from trade
B. The gainers from trade outnumber the losers from trade
C. The scarce factor necessarily gains from trade
D. None of the above - Industrial policies intended to foster comparative advantage for domestic industries could result in the implementation of ?
A. research and development subsidies
B. loan guarantees
C. low interest rate loans
D. All of the above - If tastes are identical between countries, then comparative advantage is determined by ?
A. supply condition only
B. demand conditions only
C. supply and demand conditions
D. can’t tell without more information - Differences in wages that result from differences in working conditions are known as ?
A. occupational differentials
B. search differentials
C. job differentials.
D. compensating differentials
