What are the differences between absolute advantage and comparative advantage? Absolute advantage and comparative advantage are two basic concepts to international trade and perhaps two most important concepts in international trade theory. Under absolute advantage‚ one country can produce more output per unit of productive input than another. With comparative advantage‚ if one country has an absolute (dis)advantage in every type of output‚ the other might benefit from specializing in and exporting
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What is the difference between competitive advantage and comparative advantage? Answer: An advantage that a firm has over its competitors‚ that differentiates the Product or services offered by the firm and allows the firm to reduce it’s Cost or generate Higher Revenue or Margin is known as Competitive Advantage. A competitive advantage is something that a consumer views in a product or service as having higher value than the other competitors of the firm in the industry. It is an expertise that
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Fantasy Football In the “Fantasy Football” article Isaac Morehouse explains opportunity cost and comparative advantage by providing an illustration into everyday life. He provides the example of the fantasy football commissioner’s veto to economics in everyday life. He explain how sometimes you need to think “outside of the box” if you will. I would assign this essay a solid B. I feel this article deserves a B because it is a good example for me to relate to however‚ if you don’t understand anything
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the idea of comparative advantage provide a good explanation of current patterns of international trade? For the last two centuries the international trade evolved a lot and many economists tried to explain it. One of the first theories that attempted to explain the international trade pattern was the Absolute advantage theory. A.Smith was a great economist; he is the one who created this theory. For A. Smith countries should specialize in products in which they have an absolute advantage. It was a
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Theory of Comparative Advantage Historically‚ nations have been trading with each other for hundreds of years for profit or because they do not have enough resources (land‚ labor and capital) to satisfy all the needs of consumers. For example‚ Japan has a highly skilled labor force that use technologically advanced equipment to produce cars and electrical equipment; however it does not have its own oil fields. Saudi Arabia has large supplies of oil‚ but lacks the built capital to produce cars
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Final Exam Practice Questions Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Assume that Greece has a comparative advantage in fish and Germany has a comparative advantage in cars. Also assume that Germany has an absolute advantage in both fish and cars. If these two countries specialize and trade so as to maximize the benefits of specialization and trade‚ then |a. |the two countries’ combined output of both goods will be higher than
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The Absolute Advantage concept is generally attributed to Adam Smith for his 1776 publication An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in which he countered mercantilist ideas. Adam Smith argued that it was impossible for all nations to become rich at the same time by following mercantilism because the export of one nation is another nation’s import and instead stated that all nations would gain simultaneously if they practiced free trade and specialized in accordance with their
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Explaining Concepts Concepts of Dating According to the article Dating‚ by Beth L. Bailey. We know dating is a new style of courtship‚ which was started in the early twentieth. With the emergence of this new style of courtship‚ the old one was replaced. What I remembered as an example of good explanatory writing is the writer using time order to tell the history of old courtship and when the new system of dating was emerging. And the readers probably are young people they don’t know how the
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of comparative advantage: The theory provides a basis for explaining and justifying international trade in a model world assumed to enjoy free trade‚ perfect competition‚ no uncertainty‚ costless information‚ and no government interference. 5. Limitations of comparative advantage: a. Countries do not appear to specialize only on those products that could be most efficiently produced by that country’s particular factors of production. b. Governments interfere with comparative advantage for
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Monopolistically competitive market In Principles of Economics (third edition)‚ N. Gregory Mankiw describes the market as the combination of buyers and sellers of a particular good or service (64). Economists have defined three key elements for any industry to be classified in the market: the number of firms‚ the similarity of the products and the ease of entering a certain industry. By using these features‚ four market structures can be classified—perfect competition‚ monopolistic competition‚
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