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国际经济学中英名词解释

Absolute advantage: The greater efficiency that one nation may

have over another in the production of a commodity. This was the

basis for trade for Adam Smith.绝对优势

Law of comparative advantage: The less efficient nation should

specialize in and export the commodity in which its absolute

disadvantage is smaller (this is the commodity of its comparative

advantage), and should import the other commodity.比较优势原理

Ad valorem tariff: A tariff expressed as a fixed percentage of the

value of a traded commodity.从价税

Specific tariff:从量税 A tariff expressed as a fixed sum per unit of a

traded commodity.

Capital-intensive commodity: The commodity with the higher

capital-labor ratio at all relative factor prices.资本密集型商品

Labor-intensive commodity: The commodity with the higher

labor-capital ratio (L/K) at all relative factor prices.劳动密集型产品

Capital inflow: An increase of foreign assets in the nation or a

reduction in the nation’s assets abroad.资本流入

Capital outflow: A decrease of foreign assets in the nation or an

increases the nation’s assets abroad.资本流出

Community indifference curve: The curve that shows the various

combinations of two commodities yielding equal satisfaction to the

community or nation. Community indifference curves are negatively

sloped, convex from the origin, and should not across.社会无差异曲线

Consumer surplus: The difference between what consumers are

willing to pay for a specific amount of a commodity and what they

actually pay for it.消费者剩余

Producer surplus: The revenue producers receive over and above

the minimum amount required to induce them to supply the good.生产者剩余

Current account: The account that includes all sales and purchases

of currently produced goods and services, income on foreign

investments, and unilateral transfers.经常项目

Credit transactions: Transactions that involve the receipt of

payments from foreigners. These include the export of goods and

services, unilateral transfers from foreigners, and capital inflow.贷方交易

Debit transactions: Transactions that involve payments to

foreigners. These include the import of goods and services, unilateral

transfers to foreigners, and capital outflows.

借方交易

Deficit in the balance of payments: The excess of debits over

credits in the current and capital accounts, or autonomous

transactions, equal to the net credit balance in the official reserve

account, or accommodating transactions.国际收支逆差

Factor abundance: The factor of production available in greater

proportion and at a lower relative price in one nation than in another

nation.要素丰裕度

General equilibrium analysis: The study of the interdependence

that exists among all markets in the economy.一般均衡分析

General equilibrium model: An economic model that studies the

behavior of all producers, and traders simultaneously.一般均衡模型

Heckscher-Ohlin(H-O) theory: 赫克歇尔—俄林理论The theory that

postulates that(1)a nation exports commodities intensive in its

relatively abundant and cheap factor and(2)international trade brings

about equalization in returns to homogeneous factors across

countries.

Infant-industry argument: The argument that temporary trade

protection is needed to set up an industry and to protect it during its

infancy against competition from more established and efficient

foreign firms.幼稚工业保护税

Marginal rate of substitution,MRS: The amount of one commodity

that a nation could give up in exchange for one extra unit of a second

commodity and still remain on the same indifference curve. It is given

by the slope of the community indifference curve at the point of

consumption and declines as the nation consumes more of the second

commodity.边际替代率

Marginal rate of transformation,MRT: The amount of one

commodity that a nation must give up to produce each additional unit

of another commodity. This is another name for the opportunity cost

of a commodity and is given by the slope of the production frontier at

the point of production.边际转换率

Opportunity cost theory: The theory that the cost of a commodity is

the amount of a second commodity that must be given up to release

just enough resources to produce one more unit of the first

commodity.机会成本理论

Dumping: The export of a commodity at below cost or at a lower

price than sold domestically.倾销

Persistent dumping:The continuous tendency of a domestic

monopolist to maximize total profits by selling the commodity at a

lower price abroad than domestically, also called international price

discrimination.持久性倾销

Predatory dumping: The temporary sale of commodity at a lower

price abroad in order to drive foreign producers out of business, after

which prices are raised to take advantage of the newly acquired

monopoly power abroad.掠夺性倾销

Sporadic dumping:偶尔倾销The occasional sale of a commodity at a

lower price abroad than domestically in order to sell an unforeseen

and temporary surplus of the commodity abroad without having to

reduce domestic prices.

Product cycle model:The hypothesis, advanced by Vernon, that new

products introduced by industrial nations and produced with skilled

labor eventually become standardized and can be produced in other

nations with less skilled labor.产品周期模型

Production possibility frontier:A curve showing the various

alternative combinations of two commodities that a nation can

produce by fully utilizing all of its resources with the best technology

available to it.生产可能性边界

Purchasing-power parity(PPP) theory:The theory that postulates

that the change in the exchange rate between two currencies is

proportional to the change in the ratio in the two countries’ general

price levels.购买力平价理论

Rate of effective protection:The tariff calculated on the domestic

value added in the production of a commodity.有效保护率

Relative purchasing-power parity theory:Postulates that the

change in the exchange rate over a period of time should be

proportional to the relative change in the price levels in the two

nations. This version of the PPP theory has some value.相对购买力平价

Small-country case:The situation where trade takes place at the

pretrade-relative commodity prices in the large nation so that the

small nation receives all of the benefits from trade.小国情况

Specific tariff:A tariff expressed as a fixed sum per unit of a traded

commodity.特别关税

Terms of trade:The ratio of the index price of a nation’s export to its

import commodities.贸易条件

Free-trade area:自由贸易区 Remove all tariff and nontariff barriers

among members and maintain its own trade restrictions against

outsiders.

Customs union:关税同盟Removes all barriers on trade among

members and harmonizes trade policies toward the rest of the

best example is the European Union(EU).

Common market:共同市场 Removes all barriers on trade among

members,harmonizes trade policies toward the rest of the world,and

also allows the free movement of labor and capital among member

example is the European Union(EU)since January 1,1993.

Economic union:经济同盟 A supranational institution harmonize and

administer national,social,taxation,and fiscal policies.

Dumping:倾销 The export of a commodity at below cost or at a lower

price than sold domestically.

Direct investments:直接投资 Real investments in

factories,capitalgoods,land,and inventories where both capital and

management are involved and the investor retains control over the

use of the invested capital.

Interdependence: 相互依赖The (economic) relationships among

nation.

Increasing opportunity costs: 机会成本递增The increasing

amounts of one commodity that a nation must give up to release just

enough resources to produce each additional unit of another

is reflected in a production frontier that is concave

from the origin.

Income terms of trade:收入贸易条件The ratio of the price index of

the nation’s exports to the price index of its imports times the index of

the nation’s volume of exports.

Immiserizing growth:悲惨性增长The situation where a nation’s

terms of trade deteriorate so much as a result of growth that the

nation is worse off after growth than before,even if growth without

trade tends to improve the nation’s welfare.

Leontief paradox:里昂惕夫之谜 The empirical finding that U.S import

substitutes were more K intensive than U.S is contrary to

the H-O trade model,which predicts that,as the most K-abundant

nation,the United States should import L-intensive products and

export K-intensive products.

Multinational corporations(MNCs):跨国公司Firms that

own,control,or manage production and distribution facilities in several

countries.

Optimum tariff:最有关税 The rate of tariff that maximizes the benefit

resulting from improvement in the nation's terms of trade against the

negative effect resulting from reduction in the volume of trade.

Pattern of trade:贸易模式The commodities exported and imported

by each nation.

Production possibility frontier:生产可能性曲线 A curve showing the

various alternative combinations of two commodities that a nation can

produce by fully utilizing all of its resources with the best technology

available to it.

Prohibitive tariff:禁止性关税A tariff sufficiently high to stop all

international trade so that the nation returns to autarky.

Preferential trade arrangements:优惠贸易安排The loosest from of

economic integration;provides lower barriers to trade among

participating nations than on trade with nonparticipating

example is the British Commonwealth Preference Scheme.

Stolper-Samuelson theorem: 施托尔珀－萨缪尔森定理

It postulates that free international trade reduces the real income of

the nation's relatively scarce factor and increases the real income of

the nation's relatively abundant factor.

Terms of trade:贸易条件The ratio of the index price of a nation's

export to its import commodities.

Trade creation:贸易创造 Occurs when some domestic production in

a member of the customs union is replaced by lower-cost imports

from another member increases welfare.

Trade diversion:贸易转移 Occurs when lowercost imports from

outside the union are replaced by higher-cost imports from another

union lf,this reduces welfare.

Transfer pricing:转移价格The overpricing or underpricing of

products in the intrafirm trade of multinational corporations in an

attempt to shift income and profits from high-to low-tax nations.