Assume Australia, a large country, exports wine and imports cars. Recently climate change has resulted in...

 

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Assume Australia, a large country, exports wine and imports cars. Recently climate change has resulted in very wet weather, reducing wine production in Australia, and increasing the world price of wine relative to cars. a. (4 marks) Explain how this can reduce the welfare of Australia, using the production possibility frontier and indifference curve graph to support your answer. b. (4 marks) While the normal conclusion is that Australia loses out from the severe weather, that is not always the case. In fact, Australia can instead experience a gain in welfare from this event. Explain how, using the production possibility frontier and indifference curve graph to support your answer. Assume Australia, a large country, exports wine and imports cars. Recently climate change has resulted in very wet weather, reducing wine production in Australia, and increasing the world price of wine relative to cars. a. (4 marks) Explain how this can reduce the welfare of Australia, using the production possibility frontier and indifference curve graph to support your answer. b. (4 marks) While the normal conclusion is that Australia loses out from the severe weather, that is not always the case. In fact, Australia can instead experience a gain in welfare from this event. Explain how, using the production possibility frontier and indifference curve graph to support your answer.

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