All of the following are reasons for immigration to a foreign country, except that:
a. the domestic country may be politically repressive.
b. there is an abundance of employment opportunities in the domestic country.
c. the domestic country is economically stagnant.
d. there is no scope for upward mobility in the domestic country.
e. there are religious prosecutions.
b
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The key issue with competition is the role competition plays in eliminating ________ and making the ________ as large as possible
A) cooperative surplus; profits B) producer surplus; consumer surplus C) deadweight losses; cooperative surplus D) shortages; total revenue
Steel producers in the United States observe that foreign sales of U.S. steel has drastically declined due to stringent trade policies adopted by the foreign governments and unfair treatment of U.S. steel exports in foreign countries. The lobbying efforts of such loss making U.S. steel manufacturers induces the domestic government to restrict the entry of imported steel and help stimulate the
sales of domestically produced steel. Which of the following is most similar to the example mentioned above? a. A tariff imposed by the government to stimulate domestic production of a high-technology good with positive spillover effects b. A tariff imposed by the government on the import of cotton textiles because it is an infant industry in the domestic country c. An import tariff applied against a foreign monopoly supplying the domestic market d. Taxes imposed by the government on an import competing industry that generates a negative production externality e. Reciprocal tariffs introduced by the government of Mexico on tobacco imports from Brazil in retaliation to unfair treatment of Mexican tobacco exports to the latter
The supply curve of books (which are produced using paper made from trees) will shift to the left in response to
a. a decline in college tuition. b. an increase in home building. c. an increase in the supply of lumberjacks. d. an end to government regulations that limit timber harvesting in national forests.
Other things being equal, the monopolist will
A) hire more workers than if the industry were perfectly competitive. B) hire the same number of workers as a perfectly competitive industry would. C) hire fewer workers than if the industry were perfectly competitive. D) have lower profits than if the industry were perfectly competitive.