State at least one economic benefit to increased international trade.
What will be an ideal response?
Benefits include increased specialization and efficiency, increased competition that also should increase efficiency, provision of jobs in exporting industries, improved quality, and lower prices for consumers where imports compete with domestic products.
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If the market demand for oranges is relatively inelastic with respect to price, orange consumers
A) pay no attention to price in their purchasing decisions. B) will buy fewer oranges at any higher price and will spend less money on oranges. C) will buy fewer oranges at any higher price but will spend more money on oranges. D) will buy more oranges at any higher price. E) will buy more oranges only if their incomes increase.
Using the figure above, demonstrate what happens to the composition of production (that is quantity of cloth per 1 unit of food) in Australia once trade is established between the two countries
Which country will export cloth? What happens to the relative income of workers in Australia as a result of trade? Does it increase or decrease? Would land owners in Australia lobby for or against free trade? Would land owners in Australia lobby for or against free admittance of immigrant workers?
The above figure shows the reaction functions for two pizza shops in a small isolated town. Firm B producing 100 pizzas and firm A producing 50 pizzas is NOT a Cournot equilibrium because
A) Cournot duopolists agree to share the market equally. B) firm B is not on its best-response function. C) firm A is not on its best-response function. D) neither firm is on its best-response function.
Assume that the government increases spending and finances the expenditures by borrowing in the domestic capital markets. If the nation has highly mobile international capital markets and a flexible exchange rate system, what happens to the quantity of real loanable funds per time period and the nominal value of the domestic currency in the context of the Three-Sector-Model?
a. The quantity of real loanable funds per time period rises, and nominal value of the domestic currency rises. b. The quantity of real loanable funds per time period falls, and nominal value of the domestic currency rises. c. The quantity of real loanable funds per time period rises, and nominal value of the domestic currency remains the same. d. The quantity of real loanable funds per time period rises, and nominal value of the domestic currency falls. e. There is not enough information to determine what happens to these two macroeconomic variables.