To Make a Correct Decision About Limiting Imports on Behalf

question 99

Multiple Choice

To make a correct decision about limiting imports on behalf of an
Infant industry, the government should look at:

• A)political pressure from key constituents.
• B)a cost­benefit analysis measuring the present value of the likely benefits from lower production costs compared with the cost to
• Society of higher prices in the present.
• C)the value of retaining U.S.jobs versus the small cost of higher­ priced units.
• D)the difficulty of keeping out imports from established trading partners and weighing the number of workers employed in the
• Industry that could not easily get other jobs.

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Definitions:

Standard Error

A measure of the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, indicating the accuracy with which a sample represents a population.

Standard Deviation

A statistical metric that quantifies the dispersion or spread of a dataset relative to its mean.

Sample Proportion

The fraction or percentage of items in a sample that are part of a particular category or characteristic of interest.

Binomial Distribution

A statistical function that delineates the chances of a variable assuming either of two mutually exclusive values, based on certain parameters.