PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS(LOOSELEAF)
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Describe the effects of industrialized economy in the developing economies consumption possibilities and illustrate in a diagram.
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A country produces two goods: coconuts and umbrellas. Their production possibilities frontier (PPF) places coconuts on the x-axis and umbrellas on the y-axis.
How would a drought that makes it difficult to grow coconuts but does not affect the production of umbrellas change the PPF?
Neither the value of the x-intercept nor the y-intercept would change
The value of the y-intercept would increase but the value of the x-intercept would not change
The value of the x-intercept would increase but the value of the y-intercept would not change
Both the value of the x-intercept and the y-intercept would increase
The value of the y-intercept would decrease but the value of the x-intercept would not change
The value of the x-intercept would decrease but the value of the y-intercept would not change
Suppose that there are 10 workers in each
country and real GDP includes just televisions
and cell phones. The U.S. produces 40 cell
phones and 30 televisions, while South Korea
produces 20 cell phones and 15 televisions.
The two countries decide to specialize in the
production of just one good based on the
comparative advantage and trade the goods
each other. They want to sell only excess of
the units of the good they produced initially.
Please draws the post-trade Production
Possibility Set and mark the all combination
output at pre and post trade equilibrium.
What is the gains from trade for each
country?
(Exchange ratio in the market: 1 television = 3
cell phones)
Consider a straight-line PPF (production possibilities frontier) where lemonade is measured on
the vertical axis and shoes are measured on the horizontal axis. This nation does not trade with
any other nation. It can produce a maximum of 2000 units of lemonade if it produces no shoes;
it can produce a maximum of 400 shoes if it produces no lemonade.
Calculate the slope of the PPF.
(Carefully follow all numeric instructions. Include only numbers, a decimal point, and a negative sign as
needed. Round any intermediate steps to four decimal places and your final answer to two decimal
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