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Table 2-6
One Cell Phone
Lumber (per board foot)
Estonia
40 hours
8 hours
Finland
16 hours
4 hours
Table 2-6 shows the number of labor hours required to produce a cell phone and a board foot of lumber in Estonia and Finland.
Refer to Table 2-6. If the two countries specialize and trade, who should export cell phones?
There is no basis for trade between the two countries.
Estonia
Finland
They should both be importing cell phones.
Labor productivity coefficients for the US and Brazil are given by the following table:
Country
Wheat per week
Clothing per week
Labor(number of workers)
United States
2
8
100
Brazil
1
2
120
Solve for:
Who has the absolute advantage in wheat?
What is the opportunity cost of 1 unit of wheat in the US? in Brazil?
What is the opportunity cost of 1 unit of clothing in the US? in Brazil?
Who has the comparative advantage in Wheat? In Clothing?
Draw the production possibility frontier for the US. (Put Wheat on the Y-axis and Clothing on the X-axis)
For Brazil (Put Wheat on the Y-axis and Clothing on the X-axis)
Suppose each country decides to split its labor force equally on the production of each good. Locate the point on the PPF curve for each country that represents this allocation of labor.
What’s their production and consumption combination # at this point?
Estonia
Finland
One Cell
Phone
40 hours
15 hours
Lumber (per
board foot)
8 hours
4 hours
Table 2-5 shows the number of labor hours required to produce a cell phone and a board foot of lumber in Estonia and Finland.
Refer to Table 2-5. Does either Estonia or Finland have a comparative advantage and if so, in what product?
O Both countries have the comparative advantage in both lumber and cellphones.
O Estonia has an comparative advantage in lumber while Finland has the comparative advantage in cellphones.
O Finland has an comparative advantage in lumber while Estonia has the comparative advantage in cellphones.
O cannot be determined.
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