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International Trade - Theory and Policy, 2010a

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advantage in wine causes it to produce more wine than the United States, which causes the price of wine<br />

in France to be lower than in the United States.<br />

KEY TAKEAWAYS<br />

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In autarky, in the immobile factor model, consumption will occur at the only production point possible in<br />

the model.<br />

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The autarky terms of trade for a good will be lower in the country with the productivity advantage (or the<br />

greater factor endowment in that product).<br />

EXERCISE<br />

1. Jeopardy Questions. As in the popular television game show, you are given an answer to a<br />

question <strong>and</strong> you must respond with the question. For example, if the answer is “a tax on<br />

imports,” then the correct question is “What is a tariff?”<br />

1. This happens to the dem<strong>and</strong> for cheese if the price ratio PC/PWrises.<br />

2. This happens to the dem<strong>and</strong> for cheese if one kilogram of cheese now trades for one liter of<br />

wine rather than two liters.<br />

3. This happens to the dem<strong>and</strong> for cheese if one liter of wine now trades for three kilograms of<br />

cheese rather than four kilograms.<br />

4. With homothetic preferences, the ratio of consumer dem<strong>and</strong>s of wine to cheese will equal this<br />

other ratio.<br />

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