Richland and Poorland each have two industries, traded TVs and nontraded house maintenance. The world price of
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In the following analysis, Richland is treated as the Home country and Poorland as the Foreign country. We will assume below that only labor is needed for producing a TV or maintaining a house. Also, markets are perfectly competitive, so that each worker's wage equals her/his contribution to the sales value of the output produced. Below A and A* denote TVs produced per worker in Richland and Poorland, respectively.
a. What is the Richland wage in R$ per day? What is the Poorland wage in PP per day? In R$ per day? What is the ratio of Poorland to Richland wages in a common currency?
b. What is the price of a house maintenance visit in each country?
c. Assume people in each country spend half their income on TVs and half on house maintenance. Compute the CPI (consumer price index) for each country given by the square root of (TV price) times (house maintenance price).
d. Compute the standard of living in each country by dividing local currency wages by the CPI from part (c)? Is Poorland really as poor as suggested by the last answer in part (a)?
e. Productivity now doubles in the Poorland TV industry, all else equal. How many days does it now take for Poorland workers to make a TV? What happens to the wage in Poorland? The price of house maintenance? The CPI?
f. If the central bank of Poorland wants to avoid inflation in this situation, how would it like to adjust the exchange rate?
Exchange Rate
The value of one currency for the purpose of conversion to another. Exchange Rate means on any day, for purposes of determining the Dollar Equivalent of any currency other than Dollars, the rate at which such currency may be exchanged into Dollars...
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International Economics
ISBN: 978-1429278447
3rd edition
Authors: Robert C. Feenstra, Alan M. Taylor
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