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CHAPTER 9—INTERNATIONAL FACTOR MOVEMENTS AND
MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES
MULTIPLE CHOICE
2. The source (home) location of most of the world's leading multinational enterprises is:
a. North America and Europe
b. North America and Asia
c. Europe and South America
d. Europe and Asia
ANS: A PTS: 1
3. Which type of multinational diversification occurs when the parent firm establishes foreign
subsidiaries to produce intermediate goods going into the production of finished goods?
a. Forward vertical integration
b. Backward vertical integration
c. Forward horizontal integration
d. Backward horizontal integration
ANS: B PTS: 1
4. Suppose that an American automobile manufacturer establishes foreign subsidiaries to market the
automobiles. This practice is referred to as:
a. Forward vertical integration
b. Forward conglomerate integration
c. Backward vertical integration
d. Backward conglomerate integration
ANS: A PTS: 1
5. Suppose that a steel manufacturer headquartered in Japan sets up a subsidiary in Canada to produce
steel. This practice is referred to as:
a. Conglomerate integration
b. Forward vertical integration
c. Backward vertical integration
d. Horizontal integration
ANS: D PTS: 1
6. During the 1970s, American oil companies acquired nonenergy companies (e.g., copper, auto
components) in response to anticipated decreases in investment opportunities in oil. This type of
diversification is referred to as:
a. Horizontal integration
b. Conglomerate integration
c. Forward vertical integration
d. Backward vertical integration
ANS: B PTS: 1
7. Which of the following best refers to the outright construction or purchase abroad of productive
facilities, such as manufacturing plants, by domestic residents?
a. Direct investment
b. Portfolio investment
c. Short-term capital investment
d. Long-term capital investment
ANS: A PTS: 1
8. In recent years, the largest amount of U.S. direct investment abroad has occurred in:
a. Central America
b. South America
c. Europe
d. Japan
ANS: C PTS: 1
9. In recent years, most foreign direct investment in the United States has come from:
a. Western Europe
b. Central America
c. South America
d. Asia
ANS: A PTS: 1
11. Most foreign direct investment in the United States occurs in:
a. Public utilities
b. Communications
c. Manufacturing
d. Mining and smelting
ANS: C PTS: 1
12. Which of the following is not a significant motive for the formation of multinational enterprises?
a. Avoiding tariffs by obtaining foreign manufacturing facilities
b. Obtaining the benefits from overseas comparative advantages
c. The acquisition of natural resource supply sources
d. Subsidies granted by the home government to overseas corporations
ANS: D PTS: 1
13. Suppose General Motors charges its Mexican subsidiary $1 million for auto assembly equipment that
could be purchased on the open market for $800,000. This practice is best referred to as:
a. International dumping
b. Cost-plus pricing
c. Transfer pricing
d. Technological transfer
ANS: C PTS: 1
14. Multinational enterprises may provide benefits to their source (home) countries because they may:
a. Secure raw materials for the source country
b. Shift source country technology overseas via licensing
c. Export products which reflect source-country comparative disadvantage
d. Result in lower wages for source-country workers
ANS: A PTS: 1
15. Trade analysis involving multinational enterprises differs from our conventional trade analysis in that
multinational enterprise analysis emphasizes:
a. Absolute cost differentials rather than comparative cost differentials
b. The international movement of factor inputs rather than finished goods
c. Purely competitive markets rather than imperfectly competitive markets
d. Portfolio investments rather than direct foreign investments
ANS: B PTS: 1
16. Direct foreign investment has taken all of the following forms except:
a. Investors buying bonds of an existing firm overseas
b. The creation of a wholly owned business enterprise overseas
c. The takeover of an existing company overseas
d. The construction of a manufacturing plant overseas
ANS: A PTS: 1
17. Which of the following would best explain why foreign direct investment might be attracted to the
United States?
a. U.S. price ceilings that hold down the price of energy
b. U.S. wage rates exceeding the productivity of U.S. labor
c. Artificially high prices being charged for the stock of U.S. firms
d. Anticipations of future reductions in U.S. tariff levels
ANS: A PTS: 1
18. Both Coca-Cola Co. and Pepsi-Cola Co. are multinational firms in that their soft drinks are bottled
throughout the world. This practice illustrates:
a. Backward vertical integration
b. Forward vertical integration
c. Horizontal integration
d. Conglomerate integration
ANS: C PTS: 1
19. The market power effect of an international joint venture can lead to welfare losses for the domestic
economy unless offset by cost reductions. Which type of cost reduction would not lead to offsetting
welfare gains for the overall economy?
a. R&D generating improved technology
b. Development of more productive machinery
c. New work rules promoting worker efficiency
d. Lower wages extracted from workers
ANS: D PTS: 1
20. All of the following are potential advantages of an international joint venture except:
a. Sharing research and development costs among corporations
b. Forestalling protectionism against imports
c. Establishing work rules promoting higher labor productivity
d. Operating at diseconomy-of-scale output levels
ANS: D PTS: 1
21. Which term best describes the New United Motor Manufacturing Co.?
a. Multinational enterprise
b. International joint venture
c. Multilateral contract
d. International commodity agreement
ANS: B PTS: 1
25. American labor unions have recently maintained that U.S. multinational enterprises have been:
a. Exporting American jobs by investing overseas
b. Exporting American jobs by keeping investment in the United States
c. Importing cheap foreign workers by shifting U.S. investment overseas
d. Importing cheap foreign workers by keeping U.S. investment at home
ANS: A PTS: 1
26. American labor unions accuse U.S. multinational firms of all of the following except: that such firms
a. Enjoy unfair advantages in taxation
b. Export jobs by shifting technology overseas
c. Export jobs by shifting investment overseas
d. Operate at output levels where scale economies occur
ANS: D PTS: 1
27. Which of the following refers to the price charged for products sold to a subsidiary of a multinational
enterprise by another subsidiary in another nation?
a. Transfer pricing
b. International dumping
c. Price discrimination
d. Full-cost pricing
ANS: A PTS: 1
28. Which business device involves the creation of a new business by two or more companies, often for a
limited period of time?
a. Multinational enterprise
b. International joint venture
c. Horizontal merger
d. Vertical merger
ANS: B PTS: 1
29. International joint ventures can lead to welfare losses when the newly established firm:
a. Adds to the preexistent productive capacity
b. Enters markets neither parent could have entered individually
c. Yields cost reductions unavailable to parent firms
d. Gives rise to increased amounts of market power
ANS: D PTS: 1
Figure 9.1 illustrates the market conditions facing Sony Company and American Company initially
operating as competitors in the domestic ball bearing market. Each firm realizes constant long-run
costs, MC0=AC0.
32. Consider Figure 9.1. At the equilibrium price, domestic households attain ____ of consumer surplus:
a. $4
b. $8
c. $12
d. $16
ANS: B PTS: 1
33. Consider Figure 9.1. Suppose that Sony Company and American Company jointly form a new firm,
Venture Company, whose ball bearings replace the output sold by the parents in the domestic market.
Assuming that Venture Company operates as a monopoly and that its costs equal MC0=AC0, the firm's
price, output, and total profit would respectively equal:
a. $6, 2 units, $4
b. $4, 2 units, $2
c. $6, 4 units, $4
d. $4, 4 units, $2
ANS: A PTS: 1
34. Consider Figure 9.1. Compared to the market equilibrium position achieved by Sony Company and
American Company as competitors, Venture Company as a monopoly leads to a deadweight loss of
consumer surplus of:
a. $2
b. $4
c. $6
d. $8
ANS: A PTS: 1
35. Consider Figure 9.1. Assume Venture Company's formation yields new cost reductions, indicated by
MC1=AC1, which result from technological advances. Realizing that Venture Company results in a
deadweight loss of consumer surplus, the net effect of Venture Company's formation on the welfare of
the domestic economy is:
a. No change
b. Gain of $2
c. Gain of $4
d. Loss of $2
ANS: B PTS: 1
36. Consider Figure 9.1. Assume Venture Company's formation yields new cost reductions, indicated by
MC1=AC1, which result from wage concessions accepted by Venture Company employees. The net
effect of Venture Company's formation on the welfare of the domestic economy is:
a. No change
b. Gain of $2
c. Loss of $2
d. Loss of $4
ANS: C PTS: 1
37. Consider Figure 9.1. Assume Venture Company's formation yields new cost reductions, indicated by
MC1=AC1, which result from changes in work rules by Venture Company employees that led to higher
worker productivity. The net effect of Venture Company's formation on the welfare of the domestic
economy is:
a. No change
b. Gain of $2
c. Gain of $4
d. Loss of $2
ANS: B PTS: 1
Figure 9.2 represents the U.S. labor market. Assume that labor and capital are the only factors of
production. Also assume the initial supply schedule of labor is denoted by S0 and consists entirely of
native U.S. workers. The demand schedule of labor is denoted by D0.
39. Consider Figure 9.2. At labor market equilibrium, the payment to U.S. capital owners equals:
a. $3
b. $6
c. $9
d. $12
ANS: B PTS: 1
40. Consider Figure 9.2. If Mexican migration to the United States results in the labor force increasing to 3
workers, denoted by schedule S1, the:
a. Wage rate for native U.S. workers decreases and the payments to U.S. capital owners
increases
b. Wage rate for native U.S. workers decreases and the payments to U.S. capital owners
decreases
c. Wage rate for native U.S. workers increases and the payments to U.S. capital owners
increases
d. Wage rate for native U.S. workers increases and the payments to U.S. capital owners
decreases
ANS: A PTS: 1
41. Consider Figure 9.2. As the result of the Mexican migration to the United States:
a. U.S. capital owners lose
b. Native U.S. workers lose
c. U.S. capital owners and native U.S. workers lose
d. U.S. capital owners and native U.S. workers gain
ANS: B PTS: 1
42. Consider Figure 9.2. Policies that permit Mexican workers to freely migrate to the United States would
likely be resisted by:
a. U.S. capital owners
b. Native U.S. workers
c. U.S. capital owners and native U.S. workers
d. Neither U.S. capital owners nor native U.S. workers
ANS: B PTS: 1
43. ____ refers to highly educated and skilled people who migrate from poor developing countries to
wealthy industrial countries.
a. Direct investment
b. Portfolio investment
c. Transfer pricing
d. Brain drain
ANS: D PTS: 1
44. "Guest worker" programs generally result in temporary migration of workers from:
a. Wealthy nations to wealthy nations
b. Wealthy nations to impoverished nations
c. Impoverished nations to wealthy nations
d. Impoverished nations to impoverished nations
ANS: C PTS: 1
45. Mexico's ____ refer to an assemblage of U.S.-owned companies that use U.S.-owned parts and
Mexican assembly to manufacture goods that are exported to the United States.
a. Multinational corporations
b. International joint ventures
c. Maquiladoras
d. Transplants
ANS: C PTS: 1
47. American critics of U.S. multinational enterprises contend that they promote
a. Runaway jobs
b. Technology transfers abroad
c. Tax evasion
d. All of the above
ANS: D PTS: 1
48. Joint ventures may lead to
a. Welfare increases
b. Welfare decreases
c. No changes in welfare
d. All of the above
ANS: D PTS: 1
TRUE/FALSE
1. International trade in goods and services and flows of productive factors are substitutes for each other.
ANS: T PTS: 1
2. Most multinational corporations have a low ratio of foreign sales to total sales, usually 5 percent or
less.
ANS: F PTS: 1
ANS: T PTS: 1
4. Exxon Oil Co. would undertake forward vertical integration if its retailing division acquired oil wells
in the Middle East.
ANS: F PTS: 1
5. Forward vertical integration would occur if a U.S. automobile manufacturer acquired a German
subsidiary.
ANS: F PTS: 1
ANS: F PTS: 1
7. Horizontal integration would occur if General Motors sets up a subsidiary in Mexico to produce
automobiles identical to those that it produces in the United States.
ANS: T PTS: 1
8. Multinational corporations sometimes locate manufacturing subsidiaries abroad to avoid tariff barriers
which would place their products at a competitive disadvantage in a foreign country.
ANS: T PTS: 1
9. Foreign direct investment would occur if Mobile Inc. of the United States acquired sufficient common
stock in a foreign oil company to assume voting control.
ANS: T PTS: 1
10. Foreign direct investment would occur if Microsoft Inc. of the United States purchased securities of
the French government.
ANS: F PTS: 1
11. Conglomerate integration would occur if General Motors Inc. of the United States acquired a
controlling interest in a British chemical company.
ANS: T PTS: 1
12. Both economic theory and empirical studies support the notion that foreign direct investment is
conducted in anticipation of future profits.
ANS: T PTS: 1
13. Multinational corporations often locate manufacturing operations abroad in order to take advantage of
foreign resource endowments or wage scales.
ANS: T PTS: 1
14. If the size of the Canadian market is large enough to permit efficient production in Canada, a U.S. firm
would profit by establishing a Canadian manufacturing subsidiary or licensing rights to a Canadian
firm to manufacture and sell its product in Canada.
ANS: T PTS: 1
15. There is virtually universal agreement among economists that foreign direct investment in the United
States has reduced the economic welfare of the average U.S. citizen.
ANS: F PTS: 1
16. Foreign-owned companies in the United States operate under more strict antitrust, environmental, and
other regulations than U.S.-owned companies.
ANS: F PTS: 1
17. During the 1980s and 1990s, Japanese auto firms established manufacturing facilities in the United
States known as "transplants."
ANS: T PTS: 1
18. By establishing transplant factories in the United States, Japanese automakers were able to avoid
export restrictions imposed by the Japanese government, but not import restrictions imposed by the
U.S. government.
ANS: F PTS: 1
19. Mergers differ from joint ventures in that they involve the creation of a new business firm, rather than
the union of two existing companies.
ANS: F PTS: 1
20. Developing countries, such as Mexico and India, often close their borders to foreign companies unless
they are willing to take on partner companies in developing countries.
ANS: T PTS: 1
21. In natural-resource oriented industries, such as oil and copper, joint ventures have often been formed
by several companies since the cost of resource-extraction may be prohibitively large for a particular
company.
ANS: T PTS: 1
22. International joint ventures tend to yield a welfare increasing market-power effect and a welfare
decreasing cost-reduction effect.
ANS: F PTS: 1
23. A joint venture leads to increases in national welfare if the cost-reduction effect is due to wage
concessions and if it more than offsets the market-power effect.
ANS: F PTS: 1
24. A joint venture leads to increases in national welfare if its cost-reduction effect is due to productivity
gains and if it more than offsets the market-power effect.
ANS: T PTS: 1
25. Joint ventures lead to losses in national welfare when the newly established business adds to
pre-existing production capacity and fosters additional competition.
ANS: F PTS: 1
26. Joint ventures lead to national welfare gains if the newly established business yields productivity
increases that would have been unavailable if each parent performed the same function separately.
ANS: T PTS: 1
27. A joint venture along two large competing companies tends to yield a market-power effect, which
results in a reduction in consumer surplus, that is not offset by a corresponding gain to producers.
ANS: T PTS: 1
28. If a joint venture among competing firms is able to cut costs by extracting wage concessions from
domestic workers, national welfare increases.
ANS: F PTS: 1
29. Critics of multinational corporations maintain that they often abandon domestic workers in order to
take advantage of lower wage scales abroad.
ANS: T PTS: 1
30. The theory of multinational enterprise is totally inconsistent with the principle of comparative
advantage.
ANS: F PTS: 1
31. Due to transfer-pricing problems, multinational corporations must shift profits away from countries
with low corporate tax rates to high tax-rate countries, thus absorbing a larger tax bite.
ANS: F PTS: 1
32. Maquiladoras refer to an assemblage of U.S.-owned companies that combine Mexican parts and U.S.
assembly to manufacture goods that are exported to Mexico.
ANS: F PTS: 1
33. Opposition to Mexico's maquiladoras has come from U.S. labor unions which claim that maquiladoras
have resulted in job losses for U.S. workers.
ANS: T PTS: 1
34. As workers migrate from low-wage Mexico to high-wage United States, wages tend to rise in Mexico
and fall in the United States.
ANS: T PTS: 1
35. The migration of workers from Mexico to the United States tends to exert downward pressure on the
wages of native U.S. workers that compete against Mexican workers for jobs.
ANS: T PTS: 1
36. The effect of workers migrating from low-wage Mexico to high-wage United States is to redistribute
income from capital to labor in the United States and from labor to capital in Mexico.
ANS: F PTS: 1
37. In the United States, labor unions have generally resisted efforts to implement restrictions on the
number of foreigners allowed into the country.
ANS: F PTS: 1
38. Developing countries have sometimes feared open immigration policies of developed countries on the
grounds that highly educated and skilled people may emigrate to the developed countries, thus limiting
the growth potential of the developing countries.
ANS: T PTS: 1
39. The United States has discouraged the "brain drain" problem by permitting the immigration of
unskilled workers while restricting the immigration of skilled persons.
ANS: F PTS: 1
40. Labor migration tends to increase output and decrease wages in the country of immigration while
decreasing output and increasing wages in the country of emigration.
ANS: T PTS: 1
SHORT ANSWER
1. What are the typical ways in which multinational enterprises have diversified their operations?
ANS:
Multinational enterprises have diversified their operations along vertical, horizontal, and conglomerate
lines.
PTS: 1
ANS:
Maquiladoras are assemblages of foreign-owned companies that use foreign parts and Mexican
assembly to produce goods that are exported to the United States.
PTS: 1
ESSAY
1. Are there any differences between the theory of multinational enterprises and conventional trade
theory?
ANS:
There are major differences. The conventional model assumes that commodities are traded between
independent, competitive businesses. However, multinational enterprises are often vertically integrated
businesses with substantial intrafirm sales. Also, multinational enterprises may use transfer pricing to
maximize overall company profits of any single subsidiary.
PTS: 1
ANS:
A joint venture is a cumbersome organization compared with a single organization. Control is divided,
creating problems of "two masters." Success or failure depends on how well companies work together
despite having different objectives, corporate cultures and ways of doing things. The action of
corporate chemistry is hard to predict, but it is critical because joint-venture agreements usually
provide both partners an ongoing role in management. When joint-venture ownership is divided
equally, as often occurs, deadlocks in decision making can take place. Even when negotiated balance is
achieved, it can be upset by changing corporate goals or personnel.
PTS: 1
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make a purer vegetable product. The substance has quite a large
field but it is not intimately connected with the packing business.
Cotton Seed Stearine.—This is a purchasable product and is
used at times as a substitute for oleo stearine.
Lard Oil.—The production of lard oil used in compounding
lubricating oils and illuminating oils is still carried on to some extent.
The process consists of graining the oils in graining tanks or in
seeding trucks similar to oleo oil graining trucks.
Pressing.—The lard cooled to a temperature of 40° F. is placed in
cloth wrapper arranged so that all oil is strained through the wrapper.
The solid substance contained in the wrapper is lard stearine used to
harden pure lard.
If meats still show salt after smoking change water once, as the
fresh water will take up salt rapidly. It will be found better to change
water than to soak longer. Mildly cured bacon is washed to remove
salt on surface, and not soaked. Thorough washing of all meats with
a stiff brush is done before hanging. “Bacon” or dry salted meat is
not soaked.
Smoking.—After the meats are washed and hung in the smoke
house, they should be allowed to dry about three hours, or until they
stop dripping, for if the smoke is applied while the meats are still
dripping, wherever one piece of meat is subjected to the dripping of
another, the smoke fails to take effect, giving the meats a striped and
discolored appearance. The meat, thoroughly dry, fire should be built
in the smoke house with either hickory, maple or oak wood (partially
green being preferred) and the temperature brought up from 112° to
118° F., and maintained until the surface of the meat has become
thoroughly dried and has a partially glazed appearance. As soon as
this effect is noticed, which will be in five to eight hours, hardwood
sawdust should be added, which will form a dense, penetrating
smoke. At the same time the temperature should be gradually
increased in the smoke house, or brought up to from 115° to 120° F.
A pile of sawdust, quantity depending upon the size of the smoke
house used, should be raised in the center of the house and a few
burning brands of wood laid around it. These will cause the sawdust
to ignite and a small fire, producing a great deal of smoke, will result
therefrom. If the sawdust is put on a fire already burning much of the
sawdust will go up through the house in the form of a light ash, which
is deposited upon the meat, injuring its appearance.
A house of sweet-pickle meats should be smoked for about
twenty-four to thirty hours, to get good results, and be allowed to
stand for twelve hours with the ventilators open, to give the meat a
chance to thoroughly cool off before discharging.
Gas Smoking.—The growing scarcity and consequent increased
cost of wood is forcing many packers to use gas and sawdust for
smoking. With this system the use of sawdust and gas is made in
combination, the gas being burned by slow delivery through a
perforated pipe, and the sawdust banked nearby to burn with a
creeping fire. The use of steam coils for heating the house is a
valuable assistance particularly if exhaust steam is available for use.
Temperatures.—The following temperatures will be found to give
very satisfactory results in smoking and while it will be found
impossible to adhere to them absolutely, it is advisable to do so as
closely as possible during the smoking period:
It will be noted from the previous test that there was a gain of 936
pounds in canvasing these hams, at a cost of $5.09 per 100 pounds.
As hams always sell at a much higher price than this, the difference
would represent the profit in this operation.
Shrinkage.—Shrinkage of smoked meats is a matter tangible in
dollars and cents. Meats for prompt consumption, such as those
smoked and distributed from a branch house, can be smoked for
less than meats smoked at the parent house for shipment via
carload or local freight.
The aim is to smoke out the meat as near green weights as
possible, the amount of shrinkage depending largely upon the
requirements at points to which meats are to be shipped and the
conditions to which they are to be subjected. For instance, hams and
shoulders which are to be used for immediate consumption should
smoke out 98¹⁄₂ to 100 per cent green weight, whereas meats which
are to be held for some length of time after being smoked, or which
are intended for a warmer climate, will smoke out from 95 to 97 per
cent of the green weight.
Meats, which are to be consumed immediately and not shipped to
a warm climate, may carry more moisture and hence show less
shrinkage. At the same time they have a much finer and more
attractive appearance. This is a matter to which an owner or
manager of a smoke house must necessarily give minute and close
attention in order to obtain the best results. Perhaps as important a
point as any, is when the condition of the meats as to dryness is
concerned. Meats should be shipped promptly when in condition and
not allowed to remain in the smoke house awaiting disposition.
The following table shows the result of tests on 1,136 pounds of
meat hung in smoke house for seven consecutive days, temperature
of smoke house about 90° F.
Lbs.
Weight when fully smoked 1,136
24 hours later 1,129
24 hours later 1,121
24 hours later 1,114
24 hours later 1,108
24 hours later 1,105
24 hours later 1,100
Thirty-six pounds shrinkage
in seven days’ hanging.