Category: Sources of Comparative Advantage

A. evidence against the Ricardi an model
B. evidence against the Heckscher-Ohl in model
C. support for the Ricardian model
D. support for the Heckcher Ohlin model

A. Economies of large-scale production
B. Relative abundance of various resources
C. Relative costs of labor
D. Research and development expenditures

A. Stolpher-Samuelson theory
B. factor endowment theory
C. specific factors theory
D. overlapping demand theory

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

A. supply condition only
B. demand conditions only
C. supply and demand conditions
D. can’t tell without more information

A. The prices of trade goods to be lower than when there are no transportation costs
B. specialization to stop when the production costs of the trading partners equalize
C. The volume of trade to be less than when there are no transportation costs
D. The gains from trade to be greater than when there are no transportation costs

A. static, short run trade theory
B. dynamic long run trade theory
C. zero-sum theory of trade
D. negative-sum theory of trade

A. Adam smith
B. David Ricardo
C. Wassily Leontief
D. Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin

A. calculate the capital and labor required to produce $1 million of U.S exports and imports
B. calculate the labor productivity of America workers relative to foreign workers
C. calculate the capital productivity of American capital relative to foreign capital
D. All of the above

A. International trade affords producers monopoly power
B. National governments levy imports tariffs and quotas
C. Producing goods entails increasing costs
D. Economies of scale exist for producers