1. Assume two countries (Portugal & Britain) each produce wine and cloth. Given the following details with respect to resources required to produce each good in each country, answer the following questions. b. a. What is the opportunity cost of producing each good in each country? (4 Points) Draw the Production Possibilities Frontier for each country assuming no trade and 500,000 labor hours (use wine as the x-good). (10 Points) Provide an interpretation of the slope of the PPF in this example (8 Points) If these countries engaged in international trade, in what range would the relative prices have to be to ensure mutually beneficial trade, and which good would each country specialize in? (10 Points) e. Assuming the relative price with trade of wine is 0.67 cloth and the relative price of cloth is 1.48 wine, calculate the gains from trade and show on the PPFs the expanded consumption choices for each country. (16 Points) c. d. Country Production (1 Hour of Labor Time) Cloth Wine Portugal 2.85 Britain 3.4 5.3 4.2
