Economics 9708 · AS & A Level · 6.5

6.5 — practice question

A country lowers the value of its currency in the hope that a deficit on the current account of the balance of payments will fall. What must occur for this to happen?

  • Aany tariff on imports must be matched by a subsidy on goods to be exported
  • Bthe elasticity of demand for imports and the elasticity of demand for exports must both be greater than 1
  • Cthe rate of domestic inflation is equal to the rate of inflation in the foreign market
  • Dthe sum of the elasticities of demand for domestic imports and the foreign demand for exports is greater than 1

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