International Economics 9Th Edition Krugman Solutions Manual Full Chapter PDF
International Economics 9Th Edition Krugman Solutions Manual Full Chapter PDF
International Economics 9Th Edition Krugman Solutions Manual Full Chapter PDF
◼ Chapter Organization
A Standard Model of a Trading Economy
Production Possibilities and Relative Supply
Relative Prices and Demand
The Welfare Effect of Changes in the Terms of Trade
Determining Relative Prices
Economic Growth: A Shift of the RS Curve
Growth and the Production Possibility Frontier
World Relative Supply and the Terms of Trade
International Effects of Growth
Case Study: Has the Growth of Newly Industrializing Countries Hurt Advanced Nations?
Tariffs and Export Subsidies: Simultaneous Shifts in RS and RD
Relative Demand and Supply Effects of a Tariff
Effects of an Export Subsidy
Implications of Terms of Trade Effects: Who Gains and Who Loses?
International Borrowing and Lending
Intertemporal Production Possibilities and Trade
The Real Interest Rate
Intertemporal Comparative Advantage
Summary
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 6: More on Intertemporal Trade
◼ Chapter Overview
Previous chapters have highlighted specific sources of comparative advantage which give rise to
international trade. This chapter presents a general model which admits previous models as special cases.
This “standard trade model” is the workhorse of international trade theory and can be used to address a wide
range of issues. Some of these issues, such as the welfare and distributional effects of economic growth,
transfers between nations, and tariffs and subsidies on traded goods, are considered in this chapter.
The standard trade model is based upon four relationships. First, an economy will produce at the point where
the production possibilities curve is tangent to the relative price line (called the isovalue line). Second,
indifference curves describe the tastes of an economy, and the consumption point for that economy is
found at the tangency of the budget line and the highest indifference curve. These two relationships yield
the familiar general equilibrium trade diagram for a small economy (one which takes as given the terms of
trade), where the consumption point and production point are the tangencies of the isovalue line with the
highest indifference curve and the production possibilities frontier, respectively.
You may want to work with this standard diagram to demonstrate a number of basic points. First, an autarkic
economy must produce what it consumes, which determines the equilibrium price ratio; and second, opening
an economy to trade shifts the price ratio line and unambiguously increases welfare. Third, an improvement
in the terms of trade increases welfare in the economy. Fourth, it is straightforward to move from a small
country analysis to a two-country analysis by introducing a structure of world relative demand and supply
curves which determine relative prices.
These relationships can be used in conjunction with the Rybczynski and the Stolper-Samuelson theorems
from the previous chapter to address a range of issues. For example, you can consider whether the dramatic
economic growth of countries like Japan and Korea has helped or hurt the United States as a whole, and
also identify the classes of individuals within the United States who have been hurt by the particular growth
biases of these countries. In teaching these points, it might be interesting and useful to relate them to current
events. For example, you can lead a class discussion on the implications for the United States of the
provision of forms of technical and economic assistance to the emerging economies around the world or
the ways in which a world recession can lead to a fall in demand for U.S. export goods.
The example provided in the text considers the popular arguments in the media that growth in Japan or
Korea hurts the United States. The analysis presented in this chapter demonstrates that the bias of growth
is important in determining welfare effects rather than the country in which growth occurs. The existence
of biased growth and the possibility of immiserizing growth are discussed. The Relative Supply (RS) and
Relative Demand (RD) curves illustrate the effect of biased growth on the terms of trade. The new terms
of trade line can be used with the general equilibrium analysis to find the welfare effects of growth. A general
principle which emerges is that a country which experiences export-biased growth will have a deterioration
in its terms of trade, while a country which experiences import-biased growth has an improvement in its
terms of trade. A case study points out that growth in the rest of the world has made other countries more
like the United States. This import-biased growth has worsened the terms of trade for the United States.
The second area to which the standard trade model is applied are the effects of tariffs and export subsidies
on welfare and terms of trade. The analysis proceeds by recognizing that tariffs or subsidies shift both the
relative supply and relative demand curves. A tariff on imports improves the terms of trade, expressed in
external prices, while a subsidy on exports worsens terms of trade. The size of the effect depends upon the
size of the country in the world. Tariffs and subsidies also impose distortionary costs upon the economy.
Thus, if a country is large enough, there may be an optimum, nonzero tariff. Export subsidies, however,
only impose costs upon an economy. Internationally, tariffs aid import-competing sectors and hurt export
sectors while subsidies have the opposite effect.
The chapter then closes with a discussion of international borrowing and lending. The standard trade model is
adapted to trade in consumption across time. The relative price of future consumption is defined as 1/(1 + r),
where r is the real interest rate. Countries with relatively high real interest rates (newly industrializing
countries with high investment returns for example) will be biased toward future consumption, and will
effectively “export” future consumption by borrowing from established developed countries with relatively
lower real interest rates.
Note how welfare in both countries increases as the two countries move from production
patterns governed by domestic prices (dashed line) to production patterns governed by world
prices (straight line).
2.
In panel a, the reduction of Norway’s production possibilities away from fish cause the production of
fish relative to automobiles to fall. Thus, despite the higher relative price of fish exports, Norway moves
down to a lower indifference curve representing a drop in welfare.
In panel b, the increase in the relative price of fish shifts causes Norway’s relative production of fish
to rise (despite the reduction in fish productivity). Thus, the increase in the relative price of fish exports
allows Norway to move to a higher indifference curve and higher welfare.
3. An increase in the terms of trade increases welfare when the PPF is right-angled. The production
point is the corner of the PPF. The consumption point is the tangency of the relative price line and the
highest indifference curve. An improvement in the terms of trade rotates the relative price line about
its intercept with the PPF rectangle (since there is no substitution of immobile factors, the production
point stays fixed). The economy can then reach a higher indifference curve. Intuitively, although there
is no supply response, the economy receives more for the exports it supplies and pays less for the
imports it purchases.
4. The difference from the standard diagram is that the indifference curves are right angles rather than
smooth curves. Here, a terms of trade increase enables an economy to move to a higher indifference
curve. The income expansion path for this economy is a ray from the origin. A terms of trade
improvement moves the consumption point further out along the ray.
5. The terms of trade of Japan, a manufactures (M) exporter and a raw materials (R) importer, is the world
relative price of manufactures in terms of raw materials (pM /pR). The terms of trade change can be
determined by the shifts in the world relative supply and demand (manufactures relative to raw materials)
curves. Note that in the following answers, world relative supply (RS) and relative demand (RD) are
always M relative to R. We consider all countries to be large, such that changes affect the world
relative price.
a. Oil supply disruption from the Middle East decreases the supply of raw materials, which increases
the world relative supply of manufactures to raw materials. The world relative supply curve shifts
out, decreasing the world relative price of manufactured goods and deteriorating Japan’s terms of
trade.
b. Korea’s increased automobile production increases the supply of manufactures, which increases
the world RS. The world relative supply curve shifts out, decreasing the world relative price of
manufactured goods and deteriorating Japan’s terms of trade.
c. U.S. development of a substitute for fossil fuel decreases the demand for raw materials. This
increases world RD, and the world relative demand curve shifts out, increasing the world relative
price of manufactured goods and improving Japan’s terms of trade. This occurs even if no fusion
reactors are installed in Japan since world demand for raw materials falls.
d. A harvest failure in Russia decreases the supply of raw materials, which increases the world RS.
The world relative supply curve shifts out. Also, Russia’s demand for manufactures decreases,
which reduces world demand so that the world relative demand curve shifts in. These forces
decrease the world relative price of manufactured goods and deteriorate Japan’s terms of trade.
e. A reduction in Japan’s tariff on raw materials will raise its internal relative price of manufactures
(pM/pR). This price change will increase Japan’s RS and decrease Japan’s RD, which increases the
world RS and decreases the world RD (i.e., world RS shifts out and world RD shifts in). The world
relative price of manufactures declines and Japan’s terms of trade deteriorate.
6. The declining price of services relative to manufactured goods shifts the isovalue line clockwise so
that relatively fewer services and more manufactured goods are produced in the United States, thus
reducing U.S. welfare.
7. These results acknowledge the biased growth which occurs when there is an increase in one factor of
production. An increase in the capital stock of either country favors production of good X, while an
increase in the labor supply favors production of good Y. Also, recognize the Heckscher-Ohlin result
that an economy will export that good which uses intensively the factor which that economy has in
relative abundance. Country A exports good X to country B and imports good Y from country B.
The possibility of immiserizing growth makes the welfare effects of a terms of trade improvement
due to export-biased growth ambiguous. Import-biased growth unambiguously improves welfare for
the growing country.
a. The relative price of good X falls, causing country A’s terms of trade to worsen. A’s welfare may
increase or, less likely, decrease, and B’s welfare increases.
b. The relative price of good Y rises, causing A’s terms of trade to improve. A’s welfare increases
and B’s welfare decreases.
c. The relative price of good X falls, causing country B’s terms of trade to improve. B’s welfare
increases and A’s welfare decreases (they earn less for the same quantity of exports).
d. The relative price of good X rises, causing country B’s terms of trade to worsen. B’s welfare may
increase or, less likely, decrease, and A’s welfare increases.
8. Immiserizing growth occurs when the welfare deteriorating effects of a worsening in an economy’s
terms of trade swamp the welfare improving effects of growth. For this to occur, an economy must
undergo very biased growth, and the economy must be a large enough actor in the world economy
such that its actions spill over to adversely alter the terms of trade to a large degree. This combination
of events is unlikely to occur in practice.
9. India opening should be good for the United States if it reduces the relative price of goods that
China sends to the United States and hence increases the relative price of goods that the United States
exports. Obviously, any sector in the United States hurt by trade with China would be hurt again by
India, but on net, the United States wins. Note that here we are making different assumptions about
what India produces and what is tradable than we are in Question #6. Here we are assuming India
exports products that the United States currently imports and China currently exports. China will lose
by having the relative price of its export good driven down by the increased production in India.
10. What matters for welfare are the external terms of trade. Suppose that country X exports good A and
imports good B, while country Y exports good B and imports good A. The export subsidy in country
X will raise the internal price of the export good A, leading to an increase in production of good A
and decrease demand of good A. As a result, the world price of the good A falls. The tariff on good A
in country Y will increase production and decrease demand for good A in country Y, leading to a
reduction in the world price of good A relative to good B. Thus, the terms of trade in country X falls
and the terms of trade in country Y rise. Country X is worse off, while country Y is better off.
If instead country Y had imposed an export subsidy on good B, then the internal price of good B
would rise. Production of good B rises and demand for good B falls. As a result, the world price of
good B falls. The net effect on welfare is ambiguous and depends on the relative declines in the world
prices of goods A and B.
11. International borrowing and lending implies a trade-off between the production of current and future
consumption much like trade in goods implies a trade-off between production of different goods.
The more current consumption you select the less future consumption you will be able to engage
in. International borrowing and lending is driven by differences between countries in intertemporal
preferences much like international trade is driven by differences between countries in technology or
factor endowments. Countries with a relative preference for current consumption will “export” current
consumption in exchange for future consumption. In other words, these countries will borrow in the
current period from countries that have a relative preference for future consumption. Much like
international trade, the relative amount of current consumption that is traded for future consumption
is determined by the relative price of future consumption, defined as 1/(1 + r), where r is the real
interest rate.
12. Comparative advantage in international borrowing and lending is driven by the relative price of future
consumption, and more specifically, the real interest rate. As the real interest rate rises, the relative price
of future consumption 1/(1 + r) falls. Effectively, a country with a high real interest rate is one that has
high returns on investment. Such a country will prefer to borrow today and take advantage of the high
return on investment and enjoy the fruits of current investment with high returns in the future.
a. Countries like Argentina and Canada should have high real interest rates as there are large
investment opportunities that have yet to be exploited. These countries will have a low price of
future consumption and will be biased toward future consumption, preferring to borrow today.
b. Countries like the United Kingdom in the 19th century or the United States today will have
relatively lower real interest rates as they already have a high level of capital and limited returns
on new investments. As a result, the relative price of future consumption is high and they will be
biased toward present consumption.
FIRST VISIT.