In order for large countries to successfully use tariffs to increase well being,
A) they must have significant market power so that foreign firms will cut prices to preserve their sales.
B) the deadweight loss created by the tariff must be greater than the government revenue the tariff generates.
C) domestic production must increase more significantly than for the small country case.
D) domestic consumption and imports must decrease more significantly than in the small country case.
Question 2 - Efficiency losses are
A) deadweight losses caused by consumers being prevented by tariffs from buying products at the world price, products that they value more highly than that price.
B) the total loss in consumer surplus from a tariff.
C) the increase in producer surplus that is created by a tariff.
D) the deadweight loss that is created because domestic firms have to charge higher prices to produce units of output than foreign firms would have to charge.
Question 3 - All of the following are differences in capital flows today from the past, EXCEPT
A) the increasing variety of financial instruments.
B) the larger number of companies listed on world stock exchanges.
C) the need to protect from sudden changes in currency values.
D) the problem of volatility in financial capital flows.
E) the reduction in transaction costs for foreign investment.
Question 4 - Which of the following is NOT correct about the effects of a tariff on an imported product?
A) Tariffs benefit domestic producers by raising price and domestic output.
B) Tariffs increase government revenue.
C) Tariffs mean higher prices and less consumption for consumers of the product.
D) Tariffs increase the efficiency of how resources are allocated.
Question 5 - High tariffs on intermediate inputs
A) increase the effective rate of protection on final goods.
B) have no impact on the effective rate of protection on final goods.
C) decrease the effective rate of protection on final goods.
D) lower the nominal rate of protection on final goods.
E) raise the nominal rate of protection on final goods.
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