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Category: Foundations Of Modern Trade Theory
In aukarky, when a community maximizes its standard of living, its production and consumption point is ?
A. below the production possibility frontier
B. On the production possibility frontier
C. above the production possibility frontier
D. can’t tell without more information
In autarky, when a community maximizes its standard of living its production point is ?
A. below the production possibility frontier
B. on the production possibility frontier
C. above the production possibility frontier
D. can’t tell without more information
If a country has a liner (downward sloping) production possibilities frontier, then production is said to be subjected to ?
A. constant opportunity costs
B. decreasing opportunity costs
C. first increasing and then decreasing opportunity costs
D. increasing opportunity costs
Absolute advantage is determined by ?
A. actual differences in labor production between countries
B. relative differences in labor productivity between countries
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. Neither (a) nor (b)
Country A has an absolute advantage in__________?
A. Product X
B. Product Y
C. Neither X nor Y
D. Both X and Y
Comparative advantage is determined by ?
A. actual differences in labor productivity between countries
B. relative differences in labor productivity between countries
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. Neither (a) nor (b)
If a country has a bowed out (concave to the origin) production possibility frontier then production is said to be subject to ?
A. constant opportunity costs
B. decreasing opportunity costs
C. first increasing and then decreasing opportunity costs
D. increasing opportunity costs
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
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
If Hong Kong and Taiwan have identical production possibilities curves that are subject to increasing opportunity costs ?
A. Trade would depend on difference in demand conditions
B. Trade would depend on economies of large-scale production
C. Trade would depend on the use of different currencies
D. There would be no basis for gainful trade
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