ECON 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapter 2, part 2: Absolute Advantage, Boeing 787 Dreamliner, International Trade

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Fill in the blanks. In case you get stuck, Iâve provided a list of all the missing words in alphabetical order at the end of the question. According to David Ricardoâs model, the pattern of trade between nations is determined by the distribution of ______________________ advantage. Unlike the ______________________ advantages described by Smith, Ricardoâs explanation allows for trade between partners in which one nation has superior ______________________ in the manufacture of all goods. Thatâs because Ricardoâs principle rests on the economic concept of ______________________ (defined as the amount of good Y that must be sacrificed when the nation produces a unit of good X) which can never be concentrated in just one nation. The model is usually specified with barter-style trade, meaning that we use ______________________ rather than ______________________ prices for the tradable goods. The price of each good on international markets must be higher than ______________________ in the exporting countries and lower than ______________________ in the importing countries. Although all parties can benefit from trade, there is no reason to think that they benefit equally. The ______________________ are derived from the difference between the opportunity costs of production in each nation and then distributed between participating nations according to the market price. As the price of a nationâs ______________________ good rises, it receives a larger share of the gains from trade, and we say that its ______________________ are appreciating. However, nations that ______________________ this good will receive a smaller share of the benefits from trade.

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- Gains from Trade

You find yourself in a lonely oasis in the desert. The only two things you can produce are either dates or water. In a day you can either gather 100 dates or collect 50 litres of water. And you choose to spend 4 days a week gathering dates and 3 days a week collecting water.

a.) What are your opportunity costs of water and dates?

Now imagine in the neighbor oasis is Mohammed and he can produce in a day either 150 dates or 60 liters of water. And he chooses to spend 4 days a week gathering dates and 3 days a week collecting water.

b.) What are Mohammed's opportunity costs of water and dates?

c.) Who has an absolute advantage in dates and water production and who has a

comparative advantage in dates and water production?

d.) How many dates and liters of water are you and Mohammed producing per week

before trade?

e.) How many dates and liters of water are you and Mohammed producing after you

decided to trade with each other? (Hint: Each one Specializes)

f.) Think of an exchange that would make both parties better off than before they

decided to trade with each other.

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3. Gains from trade

Consider two neighboring island countries called Euphoria and Contente. They each have 4 million labor hours available per week that they can use to produce rye, jeans, or a combination of both. The following table shows the amount of rye or jeans that can be produced using 1 hour of labor.

Country	Rye	Jeans
Country	(Bushels per hour of labor)	(Pairs per hour of labor)
Euphoria	8	32
Contente	12	24

Initially, suppose Contente uses 1 million hours of labor per week to produce rye and 3 million hours per week to produce jeans, while Euphoria uses 3 million hours of labor per week to produce rye and 1 million hours per week to produce jeans. Consequently, Euphoria produces 24 million bushels of rye and 32 million pairs of jeans, and Contente produces 12 million bushels of rye and 72 million pairs of jeans. Assume there are no other countries willing to trade goods, so, in the absence of trade between these two countries, each country consumes the amount of rye and jeans it produces.

Euphoria's opportunity cost of producing 1 bushel of rye isï¼ ï¼ of jeans, and Contente's opportunity cost of producing 1 bushel of rye isï¼ ï¼ of jeans. Therefore, ï¼ ï¼has a comparative advantage in the production of rye, andï¼ ï¼ has a comparative advantage in the production of jeans.

Suppose that each country completely specializes in the production of the good in which it has a comparative advantage, producing only that good. In this case, the country that produces rye will produce ï¼ ï¼million bushels per week, and the country that produces jeans will produce ï¼ ï¼ million pairs per week.

In the following table, enter each country's prod uction decision on the third row of the table (marked "Production").

Suppose the country that produces rye trades 26 million bushels of rye to the other country in exchange for 78 million pairs of jeans.

In the following table, select the amount of each good that each country exports and imports in the boxes across the row marked "Trade Action," and enter each country's final consumption of each good on the line marked "Consumption."

When the two countries did not specialize, the total production of rye was 36 million bushels per week, and the total production of jeans was 104 million pairs per week. Because of specialization, the total production of rye has increased byï¼ ï¼million bushels per week, and the total production of jeans has increased by ï¼ ï¼million pairs per week.

Because the two countries produce more rye and more jeans under specialization, each country is able to gain from trade.

Calculate the gains from tradeâthat is, the amount by which each country has increased its consumption of each good relative to the first row of the table. In the following table, enter this difference in the boxes across the last row (marked "Increase in Consumption").

	Euphoria		Contente
	Rye	Jeans	Rye	Jeans
	(Millions of bushels)	(Millions of pairs)	(Millions of bushels)	(Millions of pairs)
Without Trade
Production	24	32	12	72
Consumption	24	32	12	72
With Trade
Production
Trade action
Consumption
Gains from Trade
Increase in Consumption

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