Question Bank BBA International Trade and Business (For BBE V Students of MO/2016)

Question Bank- BBE, Monsoon/2016

BBA-5003 International Trade and Business

1. What is International trade? What is the importance of International business?
2. Discuss the benefits of international business with examples.
3. Discuss the concept of dependence, interdependence and independence of countries on international trade with suitable examples.
4. How would you calculate the dependence, interdependence and independence of countries on international trade with the help of the export, import and GDP of a country?
5. ‘A big sized country is generally not dependent on Export-Import (International Business) country’. Explain the statement in the light of Country-Size theory.
6. Define International Marketing. How International marketing is different from domestic marketing.
7. Explain the theory of Absolute Cost Advantage in detail. What are its criticisms/ Limitations?
8. How the theory of Comparative Cost Advantage overcomes the limitations of absolute cost advantage theory. Give support of your answer with the help of suitable example.
9. Explain the Factor proportions theory of International Trade.
10. What are the criticisms of Factor Proportions theory of international trade? Explain.
11. Explain in brief the Country size theory and Neo factor proportions theories of international Trade.
12. Discuss the Country similarity theory in detail. What aspects have justified this theory?
13. Explain Porter’s Diamond Model in detail. How it is helpful in understanding complexities of international trade.
14. What are the criticisms of Porter’s diamond Model? Explain.
15. What are the different stages of Product Life Cycle Theory of international trade? How does an exporting country become an importing country at the end of cycle?
16. Discuss the criticisms of PLC theory of International trade.
17. Explain the production location and markets where the product is offered and other situational attributes at various stages of product life cycle theory.
18. What is Multinational Corporations? Discuss the features of Multinational Corporations
19. What is the role of multinational corporations? Discuss the merits and demerits of multinational corporations.
20. Discuss in detail the negative and positive aspects (Benefits) multinational corporations.

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