A restaurant chain announces declining revenues. What's the name of the type of risk that this news raises for holders of this chain's bonds? What does this news to do the interest rate on this chain's bonds?
default risk, The interest rate rises.
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Which of the following is NOT a proposition of the Heckscher-Ohlin model?
A) A country has a comparative advantage in the production of that commodity which uses more intensively the country's more abundant resource. B) The effect of international trade is to tend to equalize factor prices between the trading nations. C) If Mexico is an unskilled labor abundant country, then Mexico has a comparative advantage in the production of goods that use unskilled labor more intensively. D) If the United States is a skilled labor abundant country, then the United States has a comparative advantage in the production of goods that use skilled labor more intensively. E) Countries will completely specialize in the product in which they have a comparative advantage if free trade is allowed to occur.
A good that entails relatively high fixed costs associated with the use of knowledge and other information-intensive inputs as key factors of production is
A) a logo good. B) a search good. C) a persuasive good. D) an information product.
Relative to a mobile factor of production, economic theory suggests that the price elasticity of supply for a highly immobile factor of production (for example, land) will be
a. more elastic. b. less elastic. c. of unitary elasticity. d. this is a trick question; the price elasticity of supply for factors of production is not affected by factor mobility.
Which fundamental economic question is most closely related to the issues of income distribution and poverty?
A. The What to Produce question. B. The Why to Produce question. C. The How to Produce question. D. The For Whom to Produce question.