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Question 1

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The existence of positive externalities due to the impossibility of full appropriability
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  • supports the conclusions of the Heckscher-Ohlin model.
  • rejects the usefulness of government protectionism
  • supports the concept that the government should support only high-tech industries
  • provides support for government protectionism.
  • supports arguments for free trade

Question 2

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The United States....
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  • does not provide more support for R&D as compared to other forms of investment
  • provides support for R&D by imposing high tariffs on R&D intensive products
  • provides support for R&D by providing direct subsidies for such activities.
  • provides support for R&D through tax legislation.
  • provides support for R&D through grant incentives.

Question 3

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The Brander-Spencer model identified market failure in certain industries due to
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  • unfair competition.
  • wildcat destructive competition.
  • environmental negative externalities associated with pollution.
  • limited competition.
  • lack of excess returns.

Question 4

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In the Brander-Spencer model the subsidy raises profits by more than the subsidy because of
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  • the "multiplier" effect of government expenditures.
  • the military-industrial complex.
  • the forward and backward linkage effects of certain industries.
  • the deterrent effect of the subsidy on foreign competition.
  • the economies of scale once the company enters the market.

Question 5

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Criticisms of the Brander-Spencer model include all EXCEPT which of the following?
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  • the problem of insufficient information
  • the problem of likely foreign retaliation
  • the problem of harm to interests of consumers
  • the problem of adverse effects of trade policy politics
  • the problem of simultaneously causing harm to other industries

Question 6

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Japan's protection of its semiconductor (RAM) producers is today seen as an object lesson in
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  • how strategic planning may backfire and cause a large waste of resources.
  • how externalities may be successfully exploited by protectionist policies.
  • how excess returns may be successfully exploited by protectionist policies.
  • how government intervention may create a meaningful comparative advantage.
  • how monopolies can outlast government intervention.

Question 7

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The Heckscher-Ohlin, factor-proportions model lends support to the argument that
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  • trade tends to worsen the conditions of unskilled labor in rich countries.
  • trade tends to worsen the conditions of owners of capital in rich countries.
  • trade tends to worsen the conditions of workers in poor countries.
  • trade tends to worsen the conditions of workers in rich countries.
  • trade tends to worsen the conditions of highly skilled workers in rich countries.

Question 8

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If firms in an industry are generating knowledge that other firms can use without paying for it, this industry is characterized by
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  • social costs that exceed private costs.
  • social benefits that exceed private benefits.
  • social costs that exceed social benefits.
  • private benefits that exceed social benefits.
  • social benefits that undermine private benefits.

Question 9

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It is argued that high-tech industries typically generate new technologies but cannot fully appropriate the commercial benefits associated with their inventions or discoveries. If this is true then in order to maximize a country's real income, the government should
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  • tax the high-tech firms.
  • subsidize the high-tech firms.
  • protect the high-tech firms.
  • outsource high-tech production.
  • discourage high-tech investments.

Question 10

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In effect, the U.S. does subsidize high-tech firms by subsidizing R&D. This is done through
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  • the budget of the Department of Education.
  • systematic protection through the levying of tariffs.
  • systematic protection through the establishment of NTBs.
  • relatively accelerated "depreciation" of R&D investment in the Federal tax codes.
  • subsidies for high-tech firms.

Question 11

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The best economic case one can make for an active industrial policy involves
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  • the national security argument.
  • the technological spillover argument.
  • the environment preservation argument.
  • the high value added argument.
  • raising the national income.

Question 12

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Spencer and Brander's model highlights the existence of
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  • aircraft industries.
  • excess returns present in highly competitive markets.
  • excess returns, or rents, available in non-competitive markets.
  • the futility of government bureaucrats' attempts to build an airplane.
  • natural advantages in foreign technology firms.

Question 13

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Spencer and Brander's model highlights the conventional assumption that
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  • government involvement in business or in the economy tends to fail.
  • government subsidies tend to waste taxpayer's money.
  • government subsidies cannot create a successfully competing export.
  • government tends to distort when it displaces Adam Smith's Invisible Hand.
  • government subsidies can produce profits that exceed the subsidy's value.

Question 14

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The reason Airbus succeeded in the Brander Spencer example is that
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  • Boeing made the first move in this strategic game.
  • Europeans tend to be better strategists than corn-fed Americans.
  • the Airbus actually was a better plane than the Boeing 747.
  • U.S. laws actually prohibit U.S. exporters from bribing foreign officials.
  • the subsidy removed the advantage that Boeing gained with their head start in production.

Question 15

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The reason Airbus succeeded in the Brander Spencer example is that
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  • the European government made an explicit subsidy offer, but the U.S. government did not.
  • Airbus' prices were better when adjusted for quality and warranty services.
  • Boeing traditionally refused to undertake any exchange rate risk in its transactions.
  • the U.S. acted in accordance with its ideological reliance on market solutions, whereas the Europeans ignored market and technological factors.
  • the Airbus plane benefited from more advanced technology.

Question 16

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The argument that strategic planning is not likely to be practical due to insufficient information means that
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  • because of trade secrets, the government does not know true cost relationships in any given industry.
  • if the government had all the relevant information in a given industry then it could decide whether a subsidy would enhance the public's welfare.
  • even if the government had all the relevant information in a given industry, it still could not decide whether a subsidy would enhance the public's welfare.
  • due to recent cuts in the Department of the Census' sampling budgets, industry surveys are no longer reliable, so that there is no way to determine if a subsidy is in the public's interest.
  • the government would need to employ its intelligence agencies in order to gain a complete understanding of the market.

Question 17

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The invocation of beggar-thy-neighbor arguments with respect to industrial policies
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  • strengthens the argument for subsidies.
  • makes sense if the international Keynesian multipliers exceed unity.
  • applies only to rich countries most of whose trade partners are very poor countries.
  • weakens the argument for subsidies.
  • does not apply to rich countries who can influence relative world prices.

Question 18

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When the WTO met in Seattle to initiate a further move towards free international trade, thousands of activists met
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  • in order to promote the WTO's goals of "Trade-not Aid."
  • in order to laud the WTO policy orientation which would bust local monopolies and therefore help ordinary relatively poor consumers everywhere.
  • in order to laud the WTO policy of disallowing government sweetheart deals, which typically meant that corrupt governments subsidized their in-laws' conglomerates on the backs of poor taxpayers.
  • in order to support the WTO efforts of bringing about a universal shift of resources in poor countries to higher efficiency and productivity uses, which would raise the real incomes of everyone.
  • in order to protest WTO free trade policies that they believed hurt workers.

Question 19

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When one applies the Heckscher-Ohlin model of trade to the issue of trade-related income redistributions, one must conclude that North South trade, such as U.S.-Mexico trade
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  • must help low skill workers on both sides of the border.
  • is likely to hurt high-skilled workers in the U.S.
  • is likely to hurt low-skilled workers in the U.S.
  • is likely to hurt low-skilled workers in Mexico.
  • is likely to help highly skilled workers in Mexico.

Question 20

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The evidence usually cited to prove that globalization hurts workers in developing countries
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  • is inconclusive due to poor statistical design of the underlying samples.
  • is inconclusive due to the poorly funded Central Statistical Office of Mexico.
  • is inconclusive due to the ambiguous theoretical implications of the findings.
  • is conclusive.
  • does not take into account the Heckscher-Ohlin model.

Question 21

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The proposal that trade agreements should include a system which monitors worker conditions and make the results available to consumers in the rich importing country
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  • is consistent with the Invisible Hand paradigm.
  • is consistent with the market failure approach.
  • is consistent with the Ricardian theory of comparative advantage.
  • is consistent with the scale economies approach to trade theory.
  • is consistent with the principles laid out by the WTO.

Question 22

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Labor standards in trade are typically opposed by most developing countries who believe that they will be used
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  • to further neo-imperialist colonial exploitation.
  • to charge these countries with crimes against child-labor standards at the Hague.
  • as a protectionist tool by import-competing producers in industrial countries.
  • as a means of spreading U.S. Corporate Values and destroying local cultures.
  • to hinder investment in foreign-based multinational corporations.

Question 23

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The WTO seems at times to be interfering in domestic policy since
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  • the line between domestic policies and de factor protectionism is often fuzzy.
  • it is a supra-national organization with the power to overturn governments.
  • it determines which nations may trade what with whom.
  • it punishes naughty nations.
  • it exempts the U.S. and other powerful member nations from many of its edicts.

Question 24

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In today's world markets, poor developing countries tend to rely primarily on exports of
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  • agricultural products.
  • primary products.
  • mineral products.
  • manufactured products.
  • high-tech products.

Question 25

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In the second half of the 1990s a rapidly growing movement focused on the harm caused by international trade to
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  • land owners in poor countries.
  • capital owners in rich industrialized countries.
  • land owners in rich industrialized countries.
  • production workers in both rich and poor countries.
  • terms of trade in developing countries.

Question 26

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The Ricardian model of comparative advantage lends support to the argument that
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  • trade tends to worsen the conditions of unskilled labor in rich countries.
  • trade tends to worsen the conditions of owners of capital in rich countries.
  • trade tends to worsen the conditions of workers in poor countries.
  • trade tends to worsen the conditions of workers in rich countries.
  • trade is mutually beneficial to the countries that engage in it.

Question 27

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Most developing countries oppose including labor standards in trade agreements because
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  • they believe this would involve a loss of their national sovereignty.
  • they believe this would limit their ability to export to rich markets.
  • they believe this would create an uneven playing field.
  • multinational corporations control them.
  • they do not want to improve wages for their workers.

Question 28

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When Japan's MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry) focused resources on the semiconductor industry, and in particular on Random Access Memory (RAM), it was viewed as a typically successful Japanese foray into a new dynamic strategic sector. The results, as viewed by the late 1990s
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  • justified this view.
  • led to similar structuring of industrial policy in the U.S.
  • lent support to the Brander-Spencer model.
  • helped shift the focus of economists away from Japanese-style industrial policy.
  • propelled Japan into the leading country in high-tech manufacturing.

Question 29

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Low wages and poor working conditions in many U.S. trade partners
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  • prove that the gains-from-trade arguments of the Ricardian model are false.
  • may be a fact of life, but economists don't care.
  • are facts emphasized by U.S. labor in its contract negotiations.
  • prove that the gains-from-trade arguments of the Ricardian model are true.
  • prove that international trade is exploitative.
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