When government inefficiencies exist and government officials can be bribed, then
A) dead capital will not exist.
B) the country will have positive economic growth.
C) a bribe will increase the cost of investing in capital.
D) property rights will be more secure since an official has been bribed to grant ownership to the business.
C
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The Heckscher-Ohlin model is famous for being elegant and mathematically sophisticated, yet failing to describe reality. One manifestation of this fact is Trefler's Case of Missing Trade. Explain what exactly is missing
In what sense is it missing? How would you explain why it is missing? How can a relaxation of the identical production functions explain the case of the missing trade? How did the results obtained by Davis and Weinstein strengthen support for the validity of the HO model?
This figure shows the payoffs involved when Sarah and Joe work on a school project together for a single grade. They both will enjoy a higher grade when more effort is put into the project, but they also get pleasure from goofing off and not working on the project. The payoffs can be thought of as the utility each would get from the effort they individually put forth and the grade they jointly receive.The outcome of the game in the figure shown predicts that Joe will earn utility of:
A. 9. B. 13. C. 5. D. 7.
If pure competition doesn't exist in the real world what is the implication for the shape of the demand curve that real-world firms would face?
What will be an ideal response?
If the supply of labor to a firm is perfectly elastic at the going wage rate established by the forces of supply and demand then
A) the firm is price taker. B) the firm can only hire additional units of labor by driving the wage rate up. C) the wage rate has been decreasing. D) full employment exists in the labor market.