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    Ricardo’s law of comparative advantage; that is‚ the ability of an individual or group to carry out a particular economic activity (such as making a specific product) more efficiently than another activity. One country cannot have a comparative advantage in all goods‚ as having a comparative advantage in one good automatically means that the country will have a comparative disadvantage in another. International trade allows countries to develop comparative advantages that they have created‚ which

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    Intro To Business Student: ___________________________________________________________________________ 1. Any activity which seeks to earn a profit by providing a good or service is known as a(n): A. industry B. corporation C. business D. service 2. __________ is the amount a business earns over and above what it spends for salaries and other expenses. A. Profit B. Revenue C. Interest D. Dividends 3. A business incurs a ___________ if its costs and expenses exceed its revenues

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    enterprise to reach out and obtain resources from outside of the firm to pursue the firm’s vision and create the value THE THEORY OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE Each country specializing in products for which it possessed absolute advantage and produce more for less and exchange products for the items they needed Governments interfere with comparative advantage for a variety of economic and political reasons‚ such as to achieve full employment‚ economic development‚ national self-sufficiency in defense

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    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 a nation:

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    Absolute advantage shows the difference in measuring the labor productivity of the product that can best be put out with the contrast of other products the country can put out using the same resources. Two methods can help in measuring each product produced. One way

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    International Business Chapter 1 Globalizing business What is global business International business (IB): (1) a business (firm) that engages in international (cross border) economic activities and/or (2) the action of doing business abroad. Multinational enterprise (MNE): A firm that engages in foreign direct investment (FDI) Foreign direct investment: investmen in‚ controling‚ and managing value-added activities in other countries Global business: Global business includes both (1) international

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    FIN 500 – Global Corporate Finance Case Study 2: The Challenge of Foreign Competition JUNE 4‚ 2009 Chapter Summary As the title of the case study clearly states‚ chapter 2‚ deals with issues relating to challenges of foreign competition. The case begins by describing how a domestically-based television manufacturing company – Stellar Television Company - conducts its operations‚ and how Japanese competition has begun distorting the company’s performance as time progresses. In the late 1950s

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    welfare gain was made when countries produced the goods in which they had an absolute cost advantage (i.e. in which they were the cheaper provider) and traded them with other countries for goods in which those countries had absolute cost advantages. Organization mainly has two ways to get into international market. It is believed that organizations take step into international level to take comparative advantage And the other is find or develop markets for their products E.g.:- exporting‚ licensing

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    Fremont). 3.Use the theory of comparative advantage to explain the way in which Logitech has configured its global operation. Why does the company manufacture in China and 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 there is absolute advantage for them to produce all the goods. So nations

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    even murder were common. Comparative advantage – brownconsultancy.com International Trade takes place because of the variations in productive factors in different countries. The variations of productive factors cause differences in price in different countries and the price differences are the main cause of international trade. There are numerous advantages of international trade accruing to all the participants of such trade. A few of such advantages are mentioned below: Efficient use of productive

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