Case Study 1: Comparative Advantage and International Trade

Specialization and Trade Comparative Advantage Imports and Exports Foreign Exchange Globalization and Trade Barriers Which of these five concepts affects you the most?  Explain why.

1-Analyze the following (2x2) matrices. Identify the countries having certain advantages. Moreover, specify the benefits of trade for both countries. A (2x2) matrix involves (2 countries exchanging 2 commodities or products) Matrix A Wheat (bushels/labor Cloth (yards/labor hour) hour) United States U.K. 3. (Numerical values reflect output per unit of input) a. Will trade occur??? Identify the country having the absolute advantage in wheat and the one having the absolute advantage in cloth. b. Identify the production possibility frontiers for both countries. c. Show me the gains of trade if we assume that the U.S. exchanges 6 units of wheat for 6 units of cloth.

Since the end of World War II, a) world trade has grown more rapidly than world output. b) world trade has grown more slowly than world GDP in the same time period. c) the trade-to-GDP ratios of most countries have fallen. d) world trade has grown more slowly than during the years leading up to World War II.