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In Figure 7-11, we saw that a fall in the relative price of components leads to an increase in the amount of components imported but that the amount of R&D exported from Home does not necessarily increase. To explore this

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The quote from the 2004 Economic Report of the President at the beginning of the chapter generated a lot of controversy that year, as discussed at the beginning of section 3 in the chapter. The chairman of the Council, N.

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Read the following excerpt, and using what you have learned in this chapter, discuss how offshoring creates opportunities for the countries involved.
Sudhakar Shenoy, chief executive of Information Management Consultants (IMC) in Reston, makes an effective pitch for offshoring.
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Consider the model of a firm that produces final goods using R&D and components as inputs, with cost data as follows:
Components: Total costs of production = PC • QC = 100
Earnings of high-skilled labor = WH

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Consider a U.S. firm’s production of automobiles, including research and development and component production.
a. Starting from a no-trade equilibrium in a PPF diagram, illustrate the gains from offshoring if the United States has comparative advantage in component production.
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Labor hours in Mexico are four times those in the United States, reflecting Mexico’s lower productivity. Also note that the ratio of high-skilled to low-skilled labor used in each activity increases as we move to the right, from 1/5 in

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a. Of two products, rice and paintings, which product do you expect to have a higher index of intra-industry trade? Why?
b. Access the U.S. TradeStats Express website at tse.export.gov/. Click on “National Trade Data” then “Global Patterns of

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a. Fill in two more rows of the table using the same approach as for the first two rows.
b. Notice that the fraction of workers finding a job each year (column 2) has the formula:
Fraction Finding

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Our derivation of the gravity equation from the monopolistic competition model used the following logic:
(i) Each country produces many products.
(ii) Each country demands all of the products that every other country produces.
(iii) Thus, large

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Starting from the long-run trade equilibrium in the monopolistic competition model, as illustrated in Figure 6-7, consider what happens when industry demand D increases. For instance, suppose that this is the market for cars and lower gasoline prices generate higher