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Category: The International Economy And Globalization
The theory that states that a country has a comparative advantage in the production of a product if that country is relatively well endowed with inputs used intensively in the production of that product is the?
A. Ricardo Malthus theorem
B. Heckscher Ohlin theorem
C. Lucas-Laffer theorem
D. Friedman Samuelson theorem
Term of trade for a country are the ratio of _______________ to _____________?
A. its opportunity costs; world opportunity costs
B. export prices; import prices
C. Value of exports; value of imports
D. its currency; other currencies
A significant portion of actual world trade patterns results from ?
A. The industrial policies of governments
B. different sizes of the countries
C. different factor endowment between countries
D. the different tastes and preferences of people in different countries
Tariffs are used to protect infant industries these industries are those which ?
A. employ many young or untrained workers
B. are competing with well-established overseas firms
C. are not yet large enough to achieve economies of scale
D. use a new technology
Import substitution is the replacement of ____ by domestic production _____ protection of ________?
A. exports, subsidies
B. exports, patents
C. imports, high tariffs or import quotas
D. imports, subsidies
A reduced share of the world export market for the United States would be attributed to?
A. Decreased productivity in U.S manufacturing
B. High incomes of American households
C. Relatively low interest rates in the United States
D. High levels of investment by American corporations
A tariff causes domestic firms to ________ and consumers to?
A. overproduce, under consume
B. Overproduce, overconsume
C. underproduce, under consume
D. underproduce, overconsume
The most wave of globalization which began in the 1980s has emphasized the outsourcing of ?
A. services and white-collar jobs
B. manufacturing and blue-collar jobs
C. natural resource extraction and mining jobs
D. agriculture and farming jobs
Increased foreign competition tend to ?
A. Intensify inflationary pressure at home
B. Induce falling output per worker-hour for domestic workers
C. Place constraints on the wages of domestic workers
D. Increase profits of domestic import competing industries
Free trade is based on the principle of ?
A. Comparative advantage
B. Comparative scale
C. Economies of advantage
D. Production possibility advantage
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