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This section includes 28 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Economics knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
1. |
Which level of economic integration best applies to the U.S economy ? |
A. | free trade area |
B. | customs union |
C. | common market |
D. | monetary union |
Answer» E. | |
2. |
Which factor of production in the United States is most likely to be made worse off (its factor payment will decrease) because of the North American Free Trade Agreement ? |
A. | Capital |
B. | land |
C. | skilled labor |
D. | unskilled labor |
Answer» E. | |
3. |
Which country is not a member of the European Union ? |
A. | Spain |
B. | Germany |
C. | France |
D. | Iceland |
Answer» E. | |
4. |
When several countries jointly impose common external tariffs, eliminate tariffs on each other, and eliminate barriers to the movement of labor and capital among themselves, they have formed a/na ? |
A. | free trade area |
B. | customs union |
C. | common market |
D. | economic union |
Answer» D. economic union | |
5. |
When imports from a higher-cost supplier within a customs union replace imports from a lower-cost supplier outside the custom union, there exists ? |
A. | trade creation |
B. | trade diversion |
C. | dynamic welfare effects |
D. | comprehensive welfare effects |
Answer» C. dynamic welfare effects | |
6. |
Under the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy, a variable import levy equals the ? |
A. | amount the which the EU’s support price exceeds the world price |
B. | amount by which the world price exceeds the EU’s support price |
C. | support price of the EU |
D. | world price |
Answer» B. amount by which the world price exceeds the EU’s support price | |
7. |
Under the Common Agricultural Policy exports of any surplus quantities EU produce are encouraged through the usage of ? |
A. | variable levies |
B. | export subsidies |
C. | trigger prices |
D. | countertrade |
Answer» C. trigger prices | |
8. |
Trade diversion takes place when ? |
A. | a country moves from autarky to free trade |
B. | a movement to a customs union reduces the costs of trade through standardization economic integration results in a |
C. | economic integration results in a movement in product origin to a lower cost member country |
D. | economic integration results in a shift in product origin from a lower-cost, nonmember country to a member country having higher costs |
Answer» E. | |
9. |
Trade creation will more likely outweigh trade diversion for Country X that forms a customs union if the level of tariffs in Country X prior to the customs union is ________ and the total number of countries forming the customs union is _________? |
A. | relatively high; relatively large |
B. | relatively high; relatively small |
C. | relatively low ; relatively large |
D. | relatively low ; relatively small |
Answer» B. relatively high; relatively small | |
10. |
Trade creation takes place when ? |
A. | a country moves from autarky to free trade |
B. | a movement to a customs union reduces the cost of trade through standardization |
C. | economic integration results in a movement in product origin to a lower-cost member country |
D. | economic integration results in a shift in product origin from a lower cost nonmember country to a member country having higher costs |
Answer» D. economic integration results in a shift in product origin from a lower cost nonmember country to a member country having higher costs | |
11. |
The NAFTA is a ? |
A. | monetary union |
B. | free trade area |
C. | common market |
D. | customs union |
Answer» C. common market | |
12. |
The implementation of the European Union has ? |
A. | made it harder for Americans of compete against the Germans in the British market |
B. | made it easier for Americans to compete against the Germans in the British market |
C. | made it harder for Americans to compete against the Japanese in the British market |
D. | made it easier for Americans to compete against the Japanese in the British |
Answer» B. made it easier for Americans to compete against the Germans in the British market | |
13. |
The implementation of a common market involves all of the following except ? |
A. | elimination of trade restrictions among member countries |
B. | a common tax system and monetary union |
C. | prohibition to restriction on factor movements |
D. | a common tariff levied in imports from nonmembers |
Answer» C. prohibition to restriction on factor movements | |
14. |
The European Union is an example of a/an ? |
A. | customs union |
B. | economic union |
C. | common market |
D. | free trade area |
Answer» D. free trade area | |
15. |
The European Union has achieved all of the following except ? |
A. | adopted a common fiscal policy for member nations |
B. | established a common system of agricultural price supports |
C. | disbanded all tariffs between its member countries |
D. | levied common tariffs on products imported from nonmembers |
Answer» B. established a common system of agricultural price supports | |
16. |
The European Monetary Union is an example of a ? |
A. | customs union |
B. | free trade area |
C. | reciprocal trade agreement |
D. | monetary union |
Answer» E. | |
17. |
The Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union has ? |
A. | increase American farm exports to the EU |
B. | decrease American farm exports to the EU |
C. | lowered the price of American farm exports to the EU |
D. | not affected the price of American farm exports to the EU |
Answer» C. lowered the price of American farm exports to the EU | |
18. |
Members of the EU find that trade creation|| is fostered when their economies are ? |
A. | highly competitive |
B. | highly noncompetitive |
C. | small in economic importance |
D. | geographically distant |
Answer» B. highly noncompetitive | |
19. |
________ is said to exist when the formation of a regional trading group leads to the reduction of trade with nonmember countries in favor of member countries ? |
A. | trade creation |
B. | trade diversion |
C. | trade exclusion |
D. | trade distortion |
Answer» C. trade exclusion | |
20. |
_________ is said to exist when the formation of a regional trading group leads to an expansion of trade above pregroup levels ? |
A. | trade creation |
B. | trade diversion |
C. | trade exclusion |
D. | trade distortion |
Answer» B. trade diversion | |
21. |
In free trade A will import ? |
A. | 700 units from country C |
B. | 700 units from country C and 600 units from country B |
C. | 600 units from country C |
D. | 600 units from country C and 400 units from country B |
Answer» D. 600 units from country C and 400 units from country B | |
22. |
If A imposes a per unit tariff of $10 on imports from both B and C A will import ? |
A. | 400 units from B |
B. | 200 units from C |
C. | 200 units from each |
D. | 400 units from B and 200 units from C |
Answer» C. 200 units from each | |
23. |
If A forms a customs union with C, the value of trade diversion will be ? |
A. | $0 |
B. | $10,000 |
C. | $20,000 |
D. | $40,000 |
Answer» B. $10,000 | |
24. |
If A forms a customs union with B, A will import ? |
A. | 400 units from B |
B. | 200 units from C |
C. | 200 units from each |
D. | 400 units from B and 200 units from C |
Answer» B. 200 units from C | |
25. |
Criticisms against the North American Free Trade Agreement include all of the following except ? |
A. | wages in the United States will rise relative to Mexican wages |
B. | American jobs will be lost to workers in Mexico |
C. | The environment is not adequately protected by NAFTA |
D. | None of the above |
Answer» B. American jobs will be lost to workers in Mexico | |
26. |
As of 2002, the ________ became the official currency union of the European Monetary System ? |
A. | dollar |
B. | mark |
C. | franc |
D. | euro |
Answer» E. | |
27. |
A positive, dynamic effect of economic integration is illustrated by ? |
A. | trade diversion effect |
B. | increased monopoly power of firms |
C. | decrease customs costs |
D. | economy-of-scale effect |
Answer» E. | |
28. |
A ____ is a regional trading bloc in Which member countries eliminate internal trade barriers but maintain existing barriers against countries that are not member ? |
A. | free trade area |
B. | customs union |
C. | common market |
D. | monetary union |
Answer» B. customs union | |