Spain is an importer of computer chips, taking the world price of $12 per chip as given. Suppose Spain imposes a $5 tariff on chips. As a result,
a. Spanish consumers of chips and Spanish producers of chips both gain.
b. Spanish consumers of chips gain and Spanish producers of chips lose.
c. Spanish consumers of chips lose and Spanish producers of chips gain.
d. Spanish consumers of chips and Spanish producers of chips both lose.
c
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The speculative attack on the British pound in 1967 succeeded because
A) the pound was seriously undervalued relative to the dollar. B) Britain decided to drop out of the Bretton Woods system. C) British exports greatly exceeded British imports, causing a large inflow of gold. D) the Bank of England lacked the international reserves to defend the existing exchange rate indefinitely.
The real interest rate ________ inflation ________
A) is unaffected in the long run by; because of the classical dichotomy B) moves one for one with expected; in the long run C) always increases with; but because of the Fisher effect lower expected inflation ensues D) all of the above E) none of the above