Which of the following is a partially valid economic argument for restricting free trade?
a. Restrictions on foreign trade will increase employment and permanently reduce unemployment.
b. Removal of restrictions that have existed for years will initially cause inflation.
c. Infant industries need permanent protection to develop and gain productive efficiency.
d. A nation needs to protect industries that are vital to national defense in case of future international conflict.
D
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1. The Stackelberg equilibrium of a sequential game must also be a Nash equilibrium. 2. In a sequential game, guaranteed commitment to a strategy will make a player worse off. 3. A merger between Gateway, a manufacturer of computers, and Logitech, a manufacturer of components for computers, would be an example of horizontal integration. 4. The Sherman Act of 1890 and the Clayton Act of 1914 gave courts the power to prevent mergers that reduce competition and provided clear criteria to apply in determining when a merger would do so. 5. Social welfare consequences are ambiguous when two or more manufacturers merge to take advantage of economies of scale.
While waiting in line to buy a cheeseburger for $2 and a drink for 75 cents, Aaron notices that the restaurant has a value meal containing a cheeseburger, drink, and French fries for $3 . For Aaron, the marginal cost of purchasing the French fries:
a. would be zero. b. would be 25 cents. c. would be 50 cents. d. cannot be determined because the information about the price of the French fries is not provided.
The circular flow model indicates that income flows from households to firms through product markets and back from firms to households through factor markets. Is the total amount spent by all households equal to the total income that flows back to all
households? Why or why not? Is the amount spent by each individual household equal to the amount that flows back to that specific household? Why or why not?
Assume that the expectation of declining housing prices cause households to reduce their demand for new houses and the financing that accompanies it. If the nation has low mobility 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. Real GDP falls, and nominal value of the domestic currency rises. b. Real GDP falls, and nominal value of the domestic currency remains the same. c. Real GDP rises, and nominal value of the domestic currency rises. d. Real GDP falls, and nominal value of the domestic currency falls. e. There is not enough information to determine what happens to these two macroeconomic variables.