Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions
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Transcribed Image Text:Consider the Specific Factors model
with two countries, Home and Foreign, with two goods, cars (c) and pharmaceutical
drugs (d), and three factors, capital K, skilled labour S, and unskilled labour L. The
production functions are given by
1
F.(Ke, Le) = K. Lễ and Fa(Ka, Sa) = K}S}.
That is, skilled labour is specific to pharmaceutical drugs, and unskilled labour to
cars. Suppose that the countries' factor endowments are KH = 2 = KF,
and LF = 3/2, and SH
LH
:1
||
1 and SF = 1/2, so that the total labour force is 2 in
both countries. The price of capital is denoted by r, the price of skilled and unskilled
and normalise pa =
labour by w, and wi. Denote the goods' prices by pc
and
Ра,
: 1
for simplicity.
The demand for cars and drugs in country j = H, F is given by x and r:
%3D
2Yi
and ra
3 pe
1Yi
%3D
3 pa
where Y' denotes aggregate income in country j.
(a) Draw or compute the PPFS of Home and Foreign.
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