If Slick Shades, a sunglasses manufacturer, has a contract with Best Lens, a lens manufacturer, to supply lenses needed to make the sunglasses, and the managers of the two firms both paid lawyers' fees to prepare the contract, the lawyer fees are considered to be a(n) ________ cost.

Refer to Figure 18.1. ________ has a comparative disadvantage in bicycles and ________ has a comparative disadvantage in hang gliders

A) Canada; the United States B) The United States; Canada C) Canada; Canada D) The United States; the United States

According to this Application, during the late 1980s, Argentina pegged its currency to the U.S. dollar. After 1995, the U.S. dollar appreciated sharply on world markets. Since the Argentinean peso was pegged to the U.S

dollar, the appreciation of the dollar essentially caused A) the peso to appreciate relative to the dollar, but depreciate on world markets. B) a sharp devaluation of the dollar relative to the peso. C) a severe revaluation of the peso relative to the dollar. D) the peso to also appreciate sharply on world markets.