Economics 9708 · AS & A Level · 6.4

6.4 — practice question

If export supply and import supply are assumed to be perfectly elastic, which pair of demand elasticities for imports and exports would mean that a 10 % decrease in a currency’s value causes the trade account in a country’s balance of payments to deteriorate?

  • Aelasticity of demand for exports 0.5, elasticity of demand for imports 0.25
  • Belasticity of demand for exports 0.5, elasticity of demand for imports 0.5
  • Celasticity of demand for exports 1.0, elasticity of demand for imports 0.75
  • Delasticity of demand for exports 1.0, elasticity of demand for imports 1.0

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