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Comparative advantage (Macro)


Gaining Through Comparative Advantage - recording transcript (1/16/2012)

Partial or complete specialization according to comparative advantage is a win-win strategy to increase total output, even though one party might enjoy absolute advantage over another party.

Keywords: absolute advantage, comparative advantage, opportunity cost, PPC, PPF, production function, production possibilities curve, production possibilities frontier, trade

Gaining from Comparative Advantage (8/9/2011)

Production through partial or complete specialization can increase total output and with trade total consumption can also be increased

Keywords: comparative advantage, opportunity cost

Healthcare Tourism (3/7/2007)

Lower-pay certified doctors, duly accredited facilities, and 5-star facilities have contributed to the comparative advantage of overseas hospitals in non-emergency big-budget surgeries for international patients.

Keywords: Apollo Group, Bangkok, Bumrungrad Hospital, comparative advantage, global competition., health care, healthcare tourism, India, insurance, medical tourism, Singapore, surgery, Thailand

Niche Specialization (1/30/2007)

Niche comparative advantage in location proximity and fast response time could overcome the disadvantage of high wages in the garment industry.

Keywords: Abboud, comparative advantage, fix-it, garment, import, location, niche specialization, outsourcing, productivity, quick response, rapid response, repairs, shipment, shipping, specialization, suit, transportation, wages

No Chicken Feet! (1/3/2013)

Chicken feet, long considered a waste product in the US, have become a profit center for the high-volume low-profit US chicken industry in the China export market. But this export trade is not exempted from political whims.

Keywords: byproduct, chicken feet, China, comparative advantage, culture, export, fixed cost, inferior good, tariff, trade protection, US

The Case for Sweatshops (1/23/1999)

Sweatshops in low wage countries supplying goods to American companies may offer better paying jobs than other local firms.

Keywords: free trade, low wage labor, morality, sweatshops, trade

Who Has Comparative Advantage? (11/2/2011)

Comparative advantage in a two-goods, two-workers economy can be identified easily by comparing the relative slopes of their linear production functions.

Keywords: comparative advantage, PPC, PPF, production function, production possibilities curve, production possibilities frontier

Who Has Comparative Advantage? - recording transcript (1/16/2012)

The different relative slopes of the production functions graphically illustrate the different relative costs of producing grapes and nuts between the two workers.

Keywords: comparative advantage, opportunity cost, PPC, PPF, production function, production possibilities curve, production possibilities frontier