Economics MCQs

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For year the U.S government levied quotas on inexpensive oil imported from the Middle East The quotas led to cost increases for U.S consumers totaling $3 billion for oil products. An apparent justification of this policy was that ?


aU.S oil companies and workers deserved higher incomes


bU.S oil was of superior quality and merited higher prices


cone should not be too dependent on foreign suppliers of crucial resources


d The U.S government needed the quota revenue to balance its budget



If the home country government grants a subsidy on a domestically produced good domestic producers tend to ?


aCapture the entire subsidy in the form of higher profits


b Increase their level of production


c reduce wages paid to domestic worker


dconsider the subsidy as a increase in production cost



A tariff-rate quota ?


ais a limit on the number of tariffs that a country can place on imports?


b uses a single tariff along with import quotas to restrict import


c is designed to avoid the the price increases caused by simple tariffs


dis a two-tier tariff system intended to restrict imports?



A specification of a maximum amount of a foreign produced good that will be allowed to enter the country over a given time period is referred to as a (an) ?


a domestic subsidy


b export subsidy


c import quota


dexport quota


View Answer import quota

Export subsidies levied by foreign governments on products in which the Pakistan the comparative disadvantage ?


alower the welfare of all Pakistanis


blead to increases in Pakistani consumer surplus


c encourage Pakistan’s production of competing goods


dencourage Pakistani workers to demand higher wages



With free trade, suppose that the rest of the world can supply calculators to Canada at a price of $30. Canada’s imports would now equal _____ and its consumer surplus would ____ relative to what occurred in the absence of trade. What is the change in consumer surplus? Refer to the figure that you have plotted ?


a20 calculators increase


b25 calculators decrease


c25 calculators increase


d30 calculators increase



The reason for dumping is that the demand curve for ABC Co’s computers is _______ because ________ are available from other nations?The reason for dumping is that the demand curve for ABC Co’s computers is _______ because ________ are available from other nations?


amore elastic in Japan, more substitutes are available from other nations


b more elastic in Japan, fewer substitutes are available from other; nations


c more inelastic in Japan; more substitutes are available from other; nations


d more inelastic in Japan; fewer substitutes are available from other nations



From the perspective of the American public as a whole, export subsidies levied by overseas governments on goods sold to the United States ?


ahelp more than they hurt


bhurt more then they help


care equivalent to an import quota


dare equivalent to an export quota



With free trade suppose that the rest of the world can supply computers to Norway at a price of $1,500 Norway’s imports will now equal. Compared to What occurred in the absence of trade, Norway’s consumers surplus will _____ and its producer surplus will ____. Can you calculate these amounts? Try plotting the information of this table on a sheet of graph paper ?


a1,600 computers, decrease, increase


b1,600 computers, increase, decrease


c 1,200 computers, decrease, increase


d1,200 computers, increase, decrease



By practicing price discrimination, the firm would realize profits totaling ?


a$160,000


b$420,000


c$540,000


d $660,000


View Answer $660,000

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