Economic Geography
International Trade
Macro
Economic History
100

Although rare earth metals are widely distributed, this country has a near monopoly on mining them.

China

100

How favorable international trade is for a country.

Terms of Trade

100

This measures the amount produced by a country's citizens.

Gross National Product (GNP)

100

The 16th amendment, ratified in 1913, allows the US government to collect this kind of tax.  By the way, tax day was yesterday.

Income Tax

200

This island produces as much as 90% of the world's advanced semiconductors. 

Taiwan

200

When a country has a lower opportunity cost to producing a good relative to another country.

Comparative advantage

200

The most often reported unemployment rate.  It begins with a U.

U-3

200

The second national bank of the US was shut down by this president, leaving the US without a central bank for decades.  He was skeptical of government issued money, so we showed him.

Andrew Jackson

300

The US's largest export industry.

Oil Drilling and Gas Extraction (Energy)

300

This theorem predicts the pattern of trade between two countries based on relative abundance of factors of production. 

Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem

300

When the goods market is in equilibrium, we are on this curve.

IS Curve

300

The word "money" comes from a temple to this goddess, which housed the roman mint

Juno (Moneta)

400

This country is the 5th largest producer of rice in the world, behind China, India, Indonesia and Bangladesh

Vietnam

400

The theory that trade depends on specialization (increasing returns to scale) and networks effect is known as:

New Trade Theory

400

The Federal Reserve's policy Rate

Federal Funds Rate.

400

This pandemic contributed to Europe's movement away from feudalism as an economic system.

Black Death

500

The largest exporter of wine, making up 32% of the global total.

France

500

The assumption that importing from the rest of the world will not affect the international price of a good.

Small Country Assumption

500

The workhorse model of modern macroeconomics.

Real Business Cycle Model

500

Between 1986 and 1995, 3234 of this type of institution colapsed.

Savings and Loans Association