Export embargoes cause greater losses to consumer surplus in the target country
A) the lesser its initial dependence on foreign produced goods.
B) the more elastic is the target country's demand schedule.
C) the more elastic is the target country's domestic supply.
D) the more inelastic the target country's supply.
E) the larger the target country's labor force is.
D
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A. price is less than marginal cost B. total revenue is greater than total cost C. price is equal to marginal cost D. price is greater than marginal cost
What is the difference in the concepts of economic growth and economic expansion?
a. Both terms are used interchangeably and refer to quarterly increases in output. b. Economic growth refers to the long-tun upward trend in output over a longer period of time, usually more than a decade, which is measured as the average annual change in output over the period. An expansion refers to a shorter time period during which output increases quarter by quarter or year by year. c. An expansion refers to the long-tun upward trend in output over a longer period of time, usually more than a decade, which is measured as the average annual change in output over the period. Economic growth refers to a shorter time period during which output increases quarter by quarter or year by year. d. Both terms are used interchangeably and refer to the long-tun upward trend in output over a longer period of time, usually more than a decade, which is measured as the average annual change in output over the period. e. Economic growth is the term reserved for periods of prosperity in less developed countries while expansion is the term reserved for developed industrial countries.
Tying agreements:
A. establish common boards of directors for previously competing firms. B. obligate a purchaser of product X to also buy product Y from the same seller. C. allow manufacturers to specify the retail prices of their products. D. prohibit firms from selling their products outside of specified geographic areas.
The U.S. price support program, which guaranteed prices for currently grown crops:
A. ended with the passage of the Freedom to Farm Act of 1996. B. began with the Grain Planting Act of 1914. C. remains the core of U.S. farm policy. D. was restored in full and expanded by the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008.