[pic] BE413 International Business Environment 1st Assignment 2009-10 (Module weight: 45%) 1) Compare and contrast two theories of international trade‚ of which one must be a ‘classical’ theory. Please explain the logic and evidence for each theory and what you think are its strengths and weaknesses‚ drawing on the sources recommended by the BE413 module. Word limit: 1000 words. 2) From the perspective of the two theories chosen for part 1 above‚ examine whether the strike action that
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specialize in production of wine and buy clock radios from Japan. Japan should specialize in production of clock radios and buy wine from france. Comparative advantage From economic perception‚ comparative advantage is refer to the ability to produce a good or service at a lower opportunity cost than another party. According to Ricardo‚ theory comparative encourage a country to specialize on the product that can produce in the most efficient ways. For example‚ Northland and Southland have produce
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different approaches to explain crime by different category of theory‚ such as psychology‚ biology and sociology. I am going to introduce four major approaches in criminology that criminologists use to explain crime. There is positivist criminology‚ classical perspective‚ sociological criminology‚ environmental criminology. Positivist criminology was founded in the late 19th century by Italian academic who called Cesare Lombroso. He believes that the positivist scientific method could be applied to the
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WELCOME YOU ALL BI108 Animal Biology Course Introduction Coordinator & Lecturer: Dr. Ketan Christi‚ PhD Sr. Lecturer (Animal Physiology) Biology‚ Room N217‚ SBCS‚ FSTE Ext. 32425 e-mail: christi_k@usp.ac.fj Other units : BI309: Comparative Animal Physiology BI103: General Biology BI 409: Advanced Physiology Post-graduate supervision: 2 students completed PhD 2 MSc students Other helping hands : 1) Ms Awei‚ Teaching Assistant 2) Other lab demo/markers are to be advised
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comparison of labor productivities‚ it is possible for a party to have no absolute advantage in anything; in that case‚ according to the theory of absolute advantage‚ no trade will occur with the other party. It can be contrasted with the concept of comparative advantage which refers to the ability to produce a particular good at a lower opportunity cost. Origin of the theory During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the dominant economic philosophy was mercantilism‚ which advocated severe restrictions
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productivity cost is the product for trade. Comparative advantage has the power to evaluate the opportunity cost given up for the production of one product to the other as long as both countries can gain from a trade. In comparing corn and cheese‚ it showed the comparison of the benefit by reducing production on cheese and the quantity change in a bushel of corn. While both products can be produced in the same country‚ it was proven that corn had the comparative advantage over cheese. Reducing the labor
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Introduction Coefficient of Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA). • Represent comparative advantage or disadvantage of a certain country in a certain goods or services. • It is based on the Ricardian comparative advantage concept. EX1 : Export value of commodity X of a nation (in a year) EC: Total export value of a nation (in a year) EX2: Export value of commodity X of the world (in a year) EW: Total export value of the world (in a year) To evaluate comparative advantage of 1 commodity of
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there are also dynamic gains from trade such as knowledge spill-overs and the fact that trade can accelerate economic growth. The essay will focus only on four sources of gains from international trade‚ namely‚ gains from specialisation based on comparative advantage‚ benefits of economies of scales‚ increase in range of goods available to consumers and knowledge spill-overs. The paper will stress that there are some restrictions on how those gains are achieved and whether every country can actually
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Profiling: Validities and Abilities. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology‚ 47‚ II‚ pp.126-144. Kocsis‚ R. (2004). Profiling the Criminal Mind: Does it Actually Work?. Medicine‚ Crime‚ and Punishment‚ 36‚ IV. Kocsis‚ R. (2004).Validities and Abilities in Criminal Profiling: The Dilemma for David Canter ’s Investigative Psychology. . International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology‚ 50‚ IV‚ 458-569. Kocsis‚ R.; Middledorp‚ J. (2004). Believing is Seeing III:
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Biography of Paul Robin Krugman Abstract Dr. Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist‚ bestselling author‚ and professor. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2008 for Economics. Dr. Krugman is an international economics that experience’s in finance‚ trade theory‚ and economic geography. This paper is a short summary of his life. Dr. Paul Krugman is an amazing American economist‚ Best Selling Author‚ and Professor. He was awarded by the American Economic Association the John Bates Clark Medal
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