Economics MCQs

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Intra-industry trade theory ?


a Explains why the United States might export autos and import clothing


b Explains why the United States might export and import differentiated versions of the same product such as different types of autos


c Assumes that transport costs are very low or do not exist


dignores seasonal considerations for agricultural goods



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


cDecline in the income of home producers


dDecrease in the level of specialization in production



According to the trade theory of Staffan Linder trade tends to be most pronounced in manufactured goods when trading countries have ?


a similar endowments of natural resources


bsimilar levels of technology


csimilar per-capita incomes


dsimilar wage levels



According to the factor endowment model of Heckscher and Ohlin, countries heavily endowed with land will ?


a Devote excessive amounts of resources to agricultural production


bDevote insufficient amounts of resources to agricultural production


cExport products that are land-intensive


dimport products that are land-intensive



The theory of overlapping demand predicts that trade in manufactured goods is unimportant for countries with very different ?


aTastes and preferences


bExpectations of future interest rate levels


cPer-capita income levels


d Labor productivities



Boeing aircraft company was able to over its production costs of the first – jumbo jetll in the seventies because Boeing could market it to several foreign airlines in addition to domestic airlines. This illustrates ?


aHow economies of scale make possible a larger variety of products in international trade


b A transfer of wealth from domestic consumer to domestic producer as the result of trade


cHow a natural monopoly is forced to behave more competitively with international trade


dHow a natural monopoly is forced to behave less competitively with international trade



The Heckscher-Ohlin theory explains comparative advantage as the result of differences in countries ?


a Economies of large-scale production


b Relative abundance of various resources


c Relative costs of labor


dResearch and development expenditures



A critic of “Shock therapy” to transition economies. Vladamir Popov, contends that shock therapists put a heavy emphasis on ?


a introducing the reform package at once to ensure that it became too late and costly to reverse the reforms


b agricultural reform rather than industrial reforms to overcome food insecurity


cthe creation of a small-scale private sector ans small independent banks


dattempts to gradually remake institutions



Privatization refers to a range of policies including ?


achanging part of a public enterpris’s ownership to the private sector


bLiberalization of entry into activities previously restricted to the public sector


cfranchising or contracting public services or leasing public assets to the Private sector


da ,b and c


View Answer a ,b and c

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are also called ?


a centralized firms


b government oligopolies


cmarket economies


dpublic enterprises


View Answer public enterprises

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