the marginal product of labor shown below. Home Foreign Baseball bats 1/6 1 tennis rackets 1/2 1/4 (a) What is the opportunity cost of rackets in terms of bats for the Home country? for the Foreign country? (b) In which good does Home have the comparative advantage? why? (c) At world equilibrium with trade‚ what do you know about the relative price of tennis rackets? (d) Assume that tennis rackets trade for bats on world markets at an equlilbrium price of PR =PB = 2. Why will each country specialize
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INTRODUCTION The Cashew‚ best known for its nuts‚ had become important when Brazil‚ India‚ East Africa‚ Indonesia and Southeast Africa realized that with exporting that product they could create an important market that could generate for them many benefits. It began when the Tupi Indians of Brazil harvested the cashew apple in the wild and they later introduced it to early Portuguese traders who in turn propagated the plant in other tropical countries. Having in mind that at the beginning‚ the
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European culture and achievement emanated. Next‚ we have comparative mythology‚ which was sought using methods from linguistic theory‚ to identify myth types and trace them back to their presumed original versions. Some theorist used comparative methods to identify the environmental cause of a given peoples’ myths. Some theorists argued that mythology‚ until World War II‚ was closely and openly identified with the “science” of race. Comparative mythology was a matter of locking ones self in a library
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internationalbusiness in the post-world war II and the associated complexities in the internationaltransactions that made the subject as an independent area of study.For several centuries‚ international economists have used the classical economic theory of comparative advantage to explain the trade movements between nations. Looking at the writingsof Adam Smith and David Ricardo in the eighteenth and nineteenth century‚ the theory in simpleterms‚ states that everyone gains if each nation specializes in
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between the developed countries‚ but also explains about the background of emergence the multinational corporation. Transformation from H-O theory to PLC theory Improvement of a theory is on the improvement of the assumption. H-O theory is still a comparative statistical international trade which almost all variable is considered as exogenous or fixed (the changing is specified outside the model). It made there is a tendency that discussing international trade is just talked around assumption. In reality
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punctuation‚ and capitalization will also affect the evaluation of your writing. Opp Cost & Comp Advantage Principles of Economics Assignments Here are some hypothetical numbers used to illustrate the ideas of trade-offs‚ specialization‚ and comparative advantage. Assume Sri Lanka‚ using all her resources efficiently‚ can produce either 1‚000 bags of rice OR 3‚000 bags of tea. Let’s also assume that‚ using all her resources efficiently‚ Kenya can produce either 1‚000 bags of rice OR 1‚000 bags
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Athens and Troy in terms of 1 ship. . 8. Based on your answer to question 7‚ which country should specialize in the production of which good? Why? Athens’ MRT=0.66 and Troy’s MRT=2. So we can know Athens has comparative advantage in ship‚ and Troy has comparative advantage in food. Thus‚ Athens should specialize in the production of ship‚ and Troy should specialize in the production of food.
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CHAP 6 * Introduction * The indian pharmaceutical companies‚ before 2005‚ were not allowed to trade with developed countries because‚ India did not respected drug patents. * In 2005 India signed up a agreement that stated that India would agree with global patent rules. * This oppened a path for the rising of business opportunities. * This pharmaceutical firms produce now‚ low-cost generical and patented medicines that are sold worldwide‚ usually in partnership with western
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the most efficient logistics company. (Marketing and operations from Fremont) 2. Use the theory of comparative advantage to explain the way in which Logitechhas configured its global operations. Why does the company manufacture in Chinaand Taiwan‚ undertake basic R&D in California and Switzerland‚ design products in Ireland‚ and coordinate marketing and operations from California?Comparative advantage‚ as proposed by Ricardo‚ says that it is beneficial for nations to involve in trade even when
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