before specialization and trade, what is the combined total amount of wine and cheese produced
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Supreeta N.
France and England both produce wine and cloth under conditions of constant opportunity costs. France can produce 150 barrels of wine if it produces no cloth or 100 bolts of cloth if it produces no wine. England can produce 50 barrels of wine if it produces no cloth or 150 bolts of cloth if it produces no wine. When international trade takes place, each country specializes in the production of the good in which it has a comparative advantage—1 barrel of wine exchanges for 1 bolt of cloth—and France exports 50 units of wine. We can conclude that France produces 150 units of wine and 0 units of cloth and that France consumes 100 units of wine and 50 units of cloth.
Azat N.
Vintland has 30 million hours of labor in total per year. Moonited Republic has 20 million hours of labor per year. Labor Hours per Bottle of Wine Labor Hours per Kilogram of Cheese Vintland Moonited Republic 15 10 10 4 a. Which country has an absolute advantage in wine? In cheese? b. Which country has a comparative advantage in wine? In cheese? c. Graph each country's production-possibility curve. Show the no-trade production point for each country, assuming that with no trade Vintland consumes 1.5 million kilos of cheese and Moonited Republic consumes 3 million kilos of cheese. d. When trade is opened, which country exports which good? If the equilibrium international price ratio is ½ bottle of wine per kilo of cheese, what happens to production in each country? e. In this free-trade equilibrium, 2 million kilos of cheese and 1 million bottles of wine are traded. What is the consumption point in each country with free trade? Show this graphically. f. Does each country gain from trade? Explain, referring to your graphs as is appropriate.
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