ECO100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 33: Absolute Advantage, Comparative Advantage, Opportunity Cost

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Economy that engages in international trade is called an open economy. Economy that doesn"t engage in international trade is a closed economy. Situation in which a country does no foreign trade is called one of autarky. Without trade each person would have to self-sufficient. A world with individual self-sufficiency would have very low living standards. With trade, people can specialize in what they do well and satisfy other needs by trading. Without interregional trade, each region would be forced to be self-sufficient. With trade, each region can specialize in producing products for which it has some natural or acquired advantage. Gains from trade: the increased output attributable to the specialization according to comparative advantage that is made possible by trade. Absolute advantage: the situation that exists when one country can produce some commodity at lower absolute cost than another country.

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The law of comparative advantage states that:

a. each country should specialize in producing the good with the lowest opportunity cost.

b. a country that is able to produce something using fewer resources than other countries would gain from specialization and trade.

c. international trade barriers slow the introduction of new goods and better technologies.

d. countries can gain from trade if production is subject to economies of scale.

e. countries must agree on how much of one good exchanges for another.

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what is a key factor that determines a firm's profitability?

A differentiation of a firm's product from other products

B factors affecting a firm's entire market

C a firm's average cost of production relative to that of competing firms

D chance events

E all of the above

economic theory suggests countries benefit from international trade by producing more of those good and services for which they have a comparative advantage (and less of that for which a country does not have a comparative advantage). However, countries rarely specialize completely, why?

even with international trade, countries rarely specialize completely because

A, all goods and services can be traded internationally

B, some countries would lose as a result of free trade

C, consumers in different countries have homogeneous tastes

D, some countries do not have an absolute advantege producing anything

E, production of most goods involves increasing opportunity costs.

Q2. (35 points) The following table shows the output of textile and auto one unit of labor can produce in the U.K. and the U.S.:

	Textiles	Autos
United Kingdom	16	4
United States	6	3

A)Which country has an absolute advantage in textiles and which country has an absolute advantage in autos?

B)What is the autarky price ratio of autos relative to textiles in each country?

C)Which country has a comparative advantage in textiles and which country has a comparative advantage in autos?

D)Which product should each country export?

E)Suppose the United States has 300 units of labor available. Construct the production-possibilities frontier (PPF) and identify the optimal autarky equilibrium (using an indifference curve) for the United States.

F)Suppose the international price is set at 1 auto:3 units of textile and the U.S. decides to completely specialize at producing the product in which it has a comparative advantage. How would the above graph change? Use the graph to show the gains from trade and the export and import quantities. For each unit of export good, how much does the U.S. gain (measured in terms of the other good)?

G)Discussion: At what level of international price ratio will all the benefits from trade accrue to the United States?

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