Country M can produce 50 million bicycles or 60 million refrigerators per year. Country N can produce
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Country M can produce 50 million bicycles or 60 million refrigerators per year.
Country N can produce 75 million bicycles or 50 million refrigerators per year.
The production possibilities curve for each country is linear.
a. What is the opportunity cost of bicycles in each country? What is the opportunity cost of refrigerators in each?
b. Which country has a comparative advantage in producing bicycles? Why?
c. Should these two countries trade? If not, why not? If so, which country would produce bicycles and which country would produce refrigerators?
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Modern Labor Economics Theory And Public Policy
ISBN: 9780132540643
11th Edition
Authors: Ronald Ehrenberg, Robert Smith
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