Tariffs or quotas on an imported product:
A. Benefit domestic producers of the product
B. Benefit domestic consumers of the product
C. Benefit foreign producers of the product
D. Hurt foreign consumers of the product
A. Benefit domestic producers of the product
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Donnie's Donuts incurs $450,000 per year in explicit costs and $200,000 in implicit costs. The bakery earns $800,000 in revenues and has $2 million in net worth. Based on this information, what is the economic profit for Donnie's Donuts?
A) $150,000 B) $350,000 C) $600,000 D) $1.2 million
Financial intermediaries are institutions that
A) produce money for the federal government. B) regulate the activities of stock and bond markets. C) act as middlemen in the process of directing funds from savers to investors. D) oversee the activities of government institutions such as the Federal Reserve.
About planning on capacity utilization: Producers typically
a. disregard interest rates when making long-term decisions about capacity utilization b. end up with high interest rates when planning for future capacity utilization c. operate at 100 percent capacity d. enjoy carrying excess productive capacity e. choose a capacity rate that gives them some degree of short-run flexibility
If the price of a car in the United States is $26,000, and the exchange rate between the dollar and the British pound rises from $1.50 to $2.00 per pound, then the price of the American car in Britain will
A. rise. B. remain the same. C. fall. D. be irrelevant, because the British government will impose restrictions on imports from the United States.