Which of the following is common to both tariffs and quotas?
A) Tariffs and quotas are both used as a means to increase government revenue.
B) Tariffs and quotas both increase economic efficiency.
C) Tariffs and quotas are both designed to reduce foreign competition faced by domestic firms.
D) Tariffs and quotas are both examples of voluntary export restraints.
Answer: C
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In the short run, a price increase in the goods and services market measured by the CPI will: a. increase the purchasing power of money
b. improve producer profits and, thereby, induce suppliers to expand output. c. increase resource prices, lower profits, and lead to a decline in output. d. reduce the natural rate of unemployment.
A positive temporary supply side shock will:
A. increase the level of potential output in the long run. B. decrease the price level in the long run. C. increase the price level in the long run. D. have no effect in the long run.
Figure 11.6Figure 11.6 depicts a monopolistically competitive firm in the long run. Illustrate on the graph the firm's price and output level in long-run equilibrium. Explain.
What will be an ideal response?
Which statement is false?
A. Our 2009 trade deficit with Japan was the highest deficit ever recorded with any one country. B. Our trading position with Japan is very much like a colony and a colonial power. C. Japan had an economic revival in the 1950s and 1960s largely by targeting the American consumer market. D. If we eliminated our trade deficits with Japan and China, we would still be running a trade deficit.