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INTB 3080 Exam 2 Study Guide with Complete Solutions Mercantilism, as advocated in the 16th and 17th centuries, believed that countries should simultaneously encourage both imports and exports. - Answer-False Largely discredited and primitive, mercantilism still influences the trade policies of...

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INTB 3080 Exam 2 Study Guide with
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Mercantilism, as advocated in the 16th and 17th centuries, believed that countries

should simultaneously encourage both imports and exports. - Answer✔✔-False


Largely discredited and primitive, mercantilism still influences the trade policies of many

countries today. - Answer✔✔-True

Free trade refers to a situation where a government, through quotas or duties, attempts

to influence what its citizens can buy from another country, or what they can produce

and sell to another country. - Answer✔✔-False

David Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage was the first to explain why

unrestricted free trade is beneficial to a country. - Answer✔✔-False

Smith, Ricardo, and Heckscher-Ohlin suggest that a country's economy would gain only

if its citizens buy products that are made in that country. - Answer✔✔-False

Embracing a free trade regime for an advanced economy often implies that the country

will produce less of some labor-intensive goods and more of some knowledge-intensive

goods. - Answer✔✔-True

According to Porter, both advanced factor endowment and basic factor endowments are

equally significant for competitive advantage. - Answer✔✔-False

According to Michael Porter, factor endowments can be affected by subsidies, policies

toward capital markets, and policies toward education. - Answer✔✔-True
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The individual firm should invest substantial financial resources in trying to build a first-

mover advantage, even if that means several years of losses before a new venture

becomes profitable. - Answer✔✔-True

The new trade theory suggests that a country may predominate in the export of a good

simply because it was lucky enough to have one or more pioneering firms to produce

that good. - Answer✔✔-True

Climate and natural resource endowments explain all of the following happening,

EXCEPT: - Answer✔✔-Switzerland exporting watches.

The difference in growth rates between Ghana and South Korea since 1970 can be

attributed to - Answer✔✔-Both countries' attitudes towards international trade

Ghana's anti trade policy destroyed the Ghanaian economy because farmers -

Answer✔✔-Switched to the production of subsistence food stuffs.

Tariffs are the instrument that the GATT and WTO have been most successful in

limiting. - Answer✔✔-True

In recent decades, a fall in subsidies, quotas, and voluntary export restraints has been

accompanied by a corresponding fall in nontariff barriers - Answer✔✔-False

Ad valorem tariffs reduce the cost of imported products relative to domestic products. -

Answer✔✔-False

Japan has a long history of supporting inefficient domestic producers with farm

subsidies. - Answer✔✔-True




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