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Category: Sources of Comparative Advantage
Which trade theory contends that a country that initially develops and exports a new product may eventually become an importer of it and may no longer manufacture the product ?
A. Theory of factor endowments
B. Theory of overlapping demands
C. Economies of scale theory
D. Product life cycle theory
For the United States empirical studies indicate that over the past two hundred years the cost of international transportation relative to the value of U.S imports has ?
A. increased
B. Decreased
C. Not changed
D. Any of the above
The Heckshcer-Ohl assumes that are indentical between countries?
A. tastes and preferences
B. technology levels
C. factor indowments
D. Both A and B
Advocates of industrial policy maintain that government should ?
A. pursue free trade as a policy that leads to maximum global efficiency
B. grant subsidies to firms offering potential comparative advantage
C. provide loans to domestic workers in exporting industries
D. increase interest rates on loans made to firms in import-competing industries
The comparative advantage model of Ricardo was based on ?
A. intraindustry specialization and trade
B. interindustry specialization and trade
C. demand conditions underlying specialization and trade
D. income conditions underlying specialization and trade
_____ 1954 study of U.S trade patterns showed that U.S exports were labor-intensive compared with U.S imports, even though the United States was widely regarded as a relatively capital-abundant nation ?
A. Paul Samuelson’s
B. Wolfgang Stolpher’s
C. Staffan Linder’s
D. Wassily Leontief’s
Difference in environmental standards or other government regulations among nations ?
A. have no impact on patterns of international trade
B. have tended to make U.S steel companies more competitive internationally
C. can affect production costs and thus alter comparative advantages and trade patterns
D. have been eliminated by the nations participating in NAFTA
Dynamic comparative advantage theory ?
A. helps explain why some nations use industrial policy to support potentially competitive new firms
B. cannot explain strategic competition between firms such as Boeing and Airbus
C. Is another name for Ricardo’s comparative advantage theory?
D. None of the above
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
That the division of labor is limited by the size of the market best applies to which explanation of trade ?
A. Factor endowment theory
B. Product life cycle theory
C. Economies of scale theory
D. Overlapping demand theory
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