Reference no: EM132482278
Consider two countries, Home and Foreign, trading two goods, Rice and Car. The Home country is endowed with abundant capital relative to labor and hence has comparative advantage to specialize in Cars; whereas the Foreign country is endowed with abundant labor and specializes in Rice. Once they start trading, price of rice increases, and price of car decreases in the Foreign country. How would theincrease in the price of riceaffect the income of each of the following factors under each trade model in theForeign country?
a. Ricardo Trade model
i. Real wage earned by labor
b. The Specific-factors trade model
i. Rental rate of capital
ii. Rental rate of land
iii. Real wage earned by labor
c. The Heckscher- Ohlin (H.O.) Trade model
i. Rental rate of capital
ii. Real wage earned by labor
d. Is there a gain from trade for the foreign country under the H.O. Model? Explain (you may use a graph to illustrate your answer)