If Relatively Labor-Abundant Country a Has a "Leontief Statistic" Greater

question 10

Multiple Choice

If relatively labor-abundant country A has a "Leontief statistic" greater than 1.0 and relatively capital-abundant country B has a "Leontief statistic" less than 1.0, this suggests that

• A) neither country is conforming to the prediction of the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem.
• B) both countries are conforming to the prediction of the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem.
• C) country A is conforming to the prediction of the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem but country B is not.
• D) country B is conforming to the prediction of the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem but country A is not.

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