A. Equal
B. Different
C. Undetermined
D. Decreasing
Related Mcqs:
- G. MacDougal compared export ratios and labor productivity ratios for the United States and the United Kingdom in order to test the:
A. Ricardian theory of comparative
B. Heckscher Ohl in theory of comparative advantage
C. Linder theory of overlapping demand all of the above
D. None of these - 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 a group of countries abolish trade barriers between them and set same tariffs on goods coming in from other countries they are a ?
A. common market
B. free trade area
C. customs union
D. federation - 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 - Quotas are government-imposed limits on the _________ of goods trade between countries?
A. prices
B. quantity
C. revenue
D. costs - Following World War II the United States and other countries sought to liberalize trade among each other the first major postwar step toward trade liberalization was the ?
A. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
B. World Trade Organization
C. Smoot Hawley Organization
D. McKinley Agreement on Trade policy - Trade creation will more likely outweigh trade diversion for Country X that forms a customs union if the level of tariffs in Country X prior to the customs union is ________ and the total number of countries forming the customs union is _________?
A. relatively high; relatively large
B. relatively high; relatively small
C. relatively low ; relatively large
D. relatively low ; relatively small - Developing countries that emphasize the production of raw materials or agricultural goods may realize a long-run deterioration in the international terms of trade because of ?
A. relatively low import tariffs maintained by advanced countries
B. highly elastic demand for these products in advanced countries
C. declines in the supplies of these products on world markets
D. sluggish demand for these products in advanced countries - The theory of overlapping demand predicts that trade in manufactured goods is unimportant for countries with very different ?
A. Tastes and preferences
B. Expectations of future interest rate levels
C. Per-capita income levels
D. Labor productivities - The arrangement where goods imported from trading partners in the developing world are subject to lower tariff rates than goods from other countries is referred to as ?
A. normal trade relation status
B. most favored nation status
C. offshore assembly provisions
D. Generalized System of Preferences
