International Trade Integration and Productivity Quizzes
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Which factor is not indicative of higher integration, based on the text?

  • Faster shipping times
  • Lower tariffs
  • Interest rates of a country converge to those of global capital markets
  • A rise in the number of skilled workers (correct)
  • According to Adam Smith, how does greater opportunities for trade promote productivity advance?

  • Because fixed exchange rates are not possible if you want to trade 2
  • By limiting the power of dictators
  • Greater investment in pirating and privateering
  • Lowering income inequality (correct)
  • Which was not a crucial factor in explaining migration patterns of free workers in Europe before 1914?

  • Wages in the receiving and sending countries (correct)
  • Credit constraints
  • Government restrictions that limited entry to specific nationalities
  • Information and personal connections
  • Which did the least to promote free and open immigration into the United States?

    <p>Famine and hunger in Europe</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is an indicator that capital markets were internationally integrated between 1850 and 1913?

    <p>Bond yield movements were highly correlated between various country pairs</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happens when nations sign a trade treaty with a Most Favored Nation clause?

    <p>Both nations now had to extend their lowest tariff on all goods with their treaty partner.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What led to hyperinflation in places like Germany between the wars?

    <p>Reparations payments and government budget deficits</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why was the gold standard weak in the period between the two world wars compared to before World War I?

    <p>The loss of British leadership at the international level</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the marginal product of capital diverging imply?

    <p>Increase in capital inefficiency</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which factor is most likely to contribute to hyperinflation?

    <p>Expectations of lower growth</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does a Most Favored Nation clause in a trade treaty require?

    <p>Extended lowest tariffs to all trade partners</p> Signup and view all the answers

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