IE Apunts Exam1
IE Apunts Exam1
IE Apunts Exam1
Globalization is a fact because of technology, because of an integrated global supply chain, because of
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changes in transportation, and we’re not going to be able to build a wall around that.”, B. Obama 2016
International trade (as migration) is part and parcel of globalization
Globalization as some great unbundling force: sectors, firms, people, tasks that were stick together in some
locations (bundled together), thay are more footloose (more free to move thanks to globalization).
Before Globalization: presence of costs of moving goods, people and ideas pushed for the clustering of
production and people.
With Globalization: drop of transportation and communicationcosts let the movement of all factors more free.
lobalization has not been just one smooth and unique process:
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First Unbundling:drop of transportation costs→ productionand consumption can happen in different places
Second Unbundling:drop of communication costs→ splitof the tasks of the production process
They have different relevance/consequences (1st hada stronger impact) and different implications
he effect happened differently across nations and over time (not gradual)
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Economic forces that explains such heterogeneous pattern:
1. Agglomeration’s Hump Shaped Effect
2. Home Market Magnification Effect
hese two economic forces able to explain the six facts described above?
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With lower transportation costs:
1. Firms start to move to big markets, but this phenomenonis balanced by an increase of local competition
● Increase industrialization (north), trade and urbanisation
2. Agglomeration and clustering of resources fosteredinnovation → trigger of economic growth
3. After 1960, transportation costs (of goods andideas) so low that could reach also less developed regions
● Industrialization of South
4. Deindustrialization in the North can be then explained bybothachangeindemand(serviceoriented)and
competition
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Globalization triggered competition between sectors:
● Winning sectors (and related firms and workers): increase sales
● Losing sectors (and related firms and workers): decrease sales
Winners and losers of trade
Policy perspective crucial to help the losers, to avoid political consequences. Winners and losers are predictable
ew implications:
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1. Competition at task-level (before, competitionbetween sectors)
2. Winners and losers are less predictable
3. Changes are more rapid and sudden
4. Since competition is new at individual level, ratherthan sector level, policy should keep it in mind
GDP is the market value of all final goods and services produced in an economy during a certain period of time
ey features:
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1. Market Value: goods and services evaluated with the current prices (taxes included). GDP is the sum
Ex. A fictitious economy produce 1 apple and 1 orange, withPa= 2€,Po=
3€→ GDP = 1·2 + 1·3 = 5€
2. Goods and Services
3. Final: sold to the final consumers, hence no additional process of transformation related to the good/service
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2 GDP from the Demand Side
Based on the sum of all the expenditures in the economy: 𝐺𝐷𝑃 = 𝐶 + 𝐼 + 𝐺 + 𝑋 − 𝑀
where; C is the private (household) consumption of goods and services, G the public (state), I
(investment/capital) is the expenditures made by private and public sector which will not lead toimmediate
consumption,Xistheexportanddemandorforeignconsumersofdomesticproducts(inflowofincome),Mis
the import and demand of domestic consumers of foreign products (outflow of income)
2.3. GDP from the Income Side
GDP as the sum of revenues of all the actors of the economy (firms, employees, state,...)
𝐺𝐷𝑃 = 𝑊 + π + 𝑖𝐾 + 𝑁𝑇𝑃𝐼
where: W is wages, π is profits or other sourcesoffirms’income,iK isinterestfromcapital,NTPIisnettax
( tax-subsidies) on production and imports
3. GDP
For developed economics, GDP has a positive trend over time.
However, since GDP is computed at the market values (p), two forces can explain is positive trend:
● Goods and services: we produce more
● Prices: goods are more expensive → inflation
Real GDP: quantities at yeart, but prices fixed ata years of referenceb:
𝐽
𝑅
𝐺𝐷𝑃𝑡,𝑏 = ∑ 𝑥𝑡𝑝
𝑏
𝑗=1
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GDP increases over time if:xt increases orpb (fixedover time) increases.
If you want to compute the economic growth of a country use real GDP rather than nominal.
DP per Capita:
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By dividing the GDP for the population → GDP per Capita
Proxy for the average expenditure/revenues of inhabitants
Used as a proxy for society well-being:
● Pros: correlated with several factors of the economy, like education, inequality,...
● Cons: rather rough measure of well-being
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1 Exchange Rates
Nominalexchangerate(e )isthenumberofunitsofthedomesticcurrencythatareneededtopurchaseaunitof
a given foreign currency.
What determines whether a currency has the “correct” value? Law of one price and Purchase Power Parity
The nominal exchange rate is not a sufficient measure for competitiveness, we also need the level of prices
𝑒𝑃*
To have a proper measure of competitiveness, we can compute theReal exchange rate(E
) : 𝐸 = 𝑃
where,eP*are the foreign prices transformed to domesticprices andPare domestic prices.
Transformingtheforeignpricesindomesticcurrency,wecancomparethepriceofdomesticvsforeigngoods,
ence we can retrieve a proper measure of domestic goods competitiveness
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● E > 1 → eP* > P domestic goods are cheaper than foreign goods, one expressed with the same
currency → high competitiveness
● E<1→eP*<Pdomesticgoodsaremoreexpensivethanforeigngoods,oneexpressedwiththesame
currency → low competitiveness
ifferences in the quality of the goods are not accounted for (all the goods are homogeneous)
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Realeffectiveexchangerate:weightedaverageofthebilateralexchangerates,wheretheweightscanberelated
to the trade flows/numbers of trade partners
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2 Trade Flows
We can check to size of countries’ trade flows to grasp information of their competitiveness
Balance of trade = exports (X) – imports (M)
Trade Openness: captures the relevance of internationaltrade with respect to the size of the economy
𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑂𝑃 = ( +
𝑋 𝑀
𝐺𝐷𝑃 ) ∗ 100
Countries characterized by being active on the international market are characterized by a TradeOP>100.
rade OP > 100→ economy defined as small open economy(open economy means tha exports means a lot)
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Mainidea:ifacountryis“betteratproducing”thananotherone,theonethatis“better”willproduceandexport
the goods, and the others will buy.
Whenacountryhasahigherproductivitycomparedtotheothercountryinproducingaspecificgood,ithasan
a bsolute advantage in the production of the good.
Given two countries, and given good z, the country with the highest productivity (hence use less input to
roduce the same amount of output) had an absolute advantage in the production of goodz.
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Countriesshouldspecializeintheproductionofgoodsinwhichtheyholdanabsoluteadvantageandthentrade
it with the rest of the world.
iventwocountries,XandY,andagivengoodz,thecountrywiththelowestopportunitycost(hencehavingto
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renounce to less units of the other good to produce 1 additional unit of z) has a comparative advantage in
producingz.
Comparative advantage → lowest opportunity cost
ountries should specialize in the producing and export the goods in which they hold a comparative advantage.
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If each country specializes in the production of goods which holds a comparative advantage, means that,
compared to other countries, they have to renounce less unitsoftheothergoodsandthroughtrade,thefinal
bundle of goods of each country can be better off.
Oncethereisadifferencebetweencountries'opportunitycosts/relativepricesintheinternationalmarket,there
is a way to profit through an arbitrage.
For a given goodzand a countryX:
● IfPzint> OppCostzX →Xwill produce and trade thegoodz
● If Pzint < OppCostzX → X will buy the good z from the international market (cheaper tobuyitthan
produce it; higher cost of production)
Define the prices on the international market which allows a profitable trade for both countries
Given a two countries model, to have trade, the prices in the international markets need to be between the
pportunity costs of the two countries.
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roductionPossibilityCurve:representsallthecombinationsofamountsofdifferentproductsthataneconomy
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can produce. The bundle of goods located over the PPC uses all the inputs available.
Trade line: where the slope of the line is the price on the international market
Absolute Advantage
pportunity Cost
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Cheaper for the US to buy cloth =
higher cost of production (2W/C)
xercise:AssumethatbothanAmericanandaJapaneseworkerproduces4carsperyear.AnAmericanworker
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intheagriculturalsectorproduces10tonsofwheatperyear,whileaJapaneseworkerproduces5tonsofwheat
peryear.Assumethatbothcountrieshave100millionsofworkers,thattheworldiscomposedbyjustthesetwo
countries, and there is no money.
CARS WHEAT
2. D efinetheproductionpossibilitycurveforanAmericanandaJapaneseworker,givenayearasamount
of time
3. Define the opportunity costs for each good and each country
CARS WHEAT
5. W ithout international trade, assume that half of the population of each country is dedicated to the
productionofeachgood.Computetheproductionofwheatandcarsforeachcountryinayear,andthe
global amount
US:
Car production: 50 million workers · 4C = 200 million C
Wheat production: 50 million workers · 10W = 500 million W
J apan:
Car production: 50 million workers · 4C = 200 million C
Wheat production: 50 million workers · 5W = 250 million W
otal:
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Cars = 400 million
Wheat = 750 million
6. G iven your previous results, do the US and Japan gain from trade? If tes, provideanexampleofa
beneficial outcome for both countries
Yes, US should specialize with the production of Wheat (compatible advantage) and Japan of Cars
US: 100 million workers · 10W = 1000 million W
Japan: 100 million workers · 4C = 400 million C
7. Define the level of prices in the international market to allow gains from trade for both countries
6. INCREASING MARGINAL COSTS AND FACTORS AVAILABILITY
hy do countries trade?
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Comparative Advantage, David Ricardo: countries should specialize in the production and trade ofgoodsin
which they hold a comparative advantage, hence in which they have a lower opportunity cost(theyhaveto
renounce to a lower amount of other goods)
Issue:thisprinciplewillsuggestthatcountriesfullyspecializeintheproduct(s)inwhichtheyholdcomparative
advantage
However, countries trade but they do not fully specialize in the production:
By introducing increasing marginal cost/opportunity cost, the theory predicts trade, but without the
unreasonably conclusion on full specialization
Trade will generate grains in the terms of consumption and total well-being and shifts in production and
consumption
Comparative advantage principle is based on the fact that countries hold different opportunity cost
xample:
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We can come back to our standard two goods economies, producing wheat and cloth, and given twoinputs
(labour and land), we can say:
I. Wheat producing requires more land than labour
II. Cloth production requires more labour than land
Focus on the production of wheat. Production process:
I. Initially, wheat production uses the best soil
II. To increase wheat production, it will require:
A. More land than labour
B. Best soil it has already been used, hence we can use the soil that is ñess fertile → it will
require more land to produce the same amount of wheat
III. But if it will require more land… we will have to renounce to more cloth
Graph: more cloth production makes the slope of the tangent
increase (=increase opportunity cost)
ood produced by the country will depend on the level of prices
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Level of prices is determined by demand → indifference curves
Indifferencecurves:showsthecombinationofconsumedquantitieswhich
led to the same level of well-being (or utility)
Higher indifference curve = higher well-being or utility
ountriesgainfromtradeifthepricesontheinternationalmarketarebetweentheiropportunitycost.However,
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exists only one level of prices with equilize demand and supply of each country. Hence, it exists only one
equilibrium level of price.
singthePPCandCommunityIndifferenceCurves,
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we can depict a supply/demand diagram, where:
● PPC determines the supply curve
● Community Indifference Curves determine
the demand curve
xample: Assume thatPCINT= 1W. Let’s look at the US
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1. PCI NT <OppCostcU S → decrease production cloth,increase production wheat.S1 : PC INT =OppCostCU S
2. Now US can trade at PC INT = 1W. Trade until reachingthe highest community indifference curve (C1 )
3. Clear difference about produced (S 1: 80W
and20C)bundleandconsumed(C 1 :40Wand
60C) bundle
After mimicking the same scenario forRoW,
how much is traded by each country?
● US buys 40C from RoW, sells 40W
● RoW buys 40W from US, sells 40C
→ With PCI NT= 1W, quantitiesthattheywant
to trade are the same, there are gains from
trade forbothcountries.“Tradetriangles”are
the same for both countries
It does not always happen, ifPC INT= 0.8W:
● US: increase W and decrease C (in production) → export (sell) more W
● RoW: increase W and decrease C (in production) → import (buy) less W
Not all thePCINT will generate a situation wherethe supply/demand of each country of traded goods equilize
Terms of Trade is the ratio between export prices and import prices: increase ToT = increase gains from trade
2. Differences in Opportunity costs
omparative advantage principle is based on the fact that countries hold different opportunity cost
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Demand increase: countries can have indifference curves, that generate differences in the opportunity costs
Supply increases: countriescanhavehightechnologies,whichmakethemrelativelymoreproductiveinsome
goods compared to others
Factorsendowmentincrease→Heckscher-OhlinTheory:Countryexportstheproduct(s)thatusesitsrelatively
abundant factor intensively and imports the product(s) that uses its relatively scarce factor intensively
heprincipleofcomparativeadvantageprovideusanintuitiveframeworkconcerningwhycountriestrade,and
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which type of goods they could export/import
Through trade countries can reach a higher level of well-being and resources are allocated more efficiently
Heckscher-OhlinTheory:countryexportstheproduct(s)thatusesitsrelativelyabundantfactorintensivelyand
imports the product(s) that uses its relatively scarce factor intensively
Differences in the factors endowments and in factors requirements in the production of the goods lead to
pportunities from trade
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1 Factors Endowment
We have to look at it of each country compared to the rest of the world (in relative terms)
To grasp the abundance or scarcity of each factor; we have to compare countries' share of each factor (ex.
labour) with the total availability in the world
𝐴 𝐼
𝐿𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐿𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑟
Example: CountryAis labourabundantcompared toB, C, D,... if: 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 > 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝐼ϵ{ 𝐵, 𝐶, 𝐷,...}
𝐿𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐿𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑟
Intra-industry trade can be explained by the rising of the international supply chain and product differentiation
Product Differentiation: goods that belong to the same category but perceived as different by customers
● Smartphones: Iphone vs Samsung vs Huawei — Cars — Perfumes
3. Conclusion
-O provides relevant predictions for the comparative advantage principle, explaining relevant set of trade
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patterns (import and export)
→Thankstointernationaltrade,somesectors/industriesincreasetheirproductionandsize,andotherswillface
the opposite dynamic... will there be consequences?
Countriesdonotjusttradebetweenindustries(inter-industrytrade),butasubstantialpartoftheirtradeflowsis
intra-industry trade!
→ Reduction of transportation costs, tariffs and barriers helped out the rise of intra-industry trade. The EU
Single Market, for instance, promoted a substantial rise of intra-industry trade across EU countries.
8. WINNERS AND LOSERS FROM TRADE
-O theory predicts, within a country, that export-oriented industries will expand, while the opposite will
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happen to the import-affected industries
Butsincefactorsareusedindifferentproportionsamongindustries,thatwillgenerateashiftinthesupplyand
demand (S&D) of the factors
1.1. Example
S has a comparative advantage in the production of wheat, which use intensively land instead of labour
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Remuneration = wages and rents
emuneration of factors not at the same level before trade → total demand of each factor has changed
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After factors adjustment, wheat production in land intensive, while opposite happened to labour
Hence, in the long-run, the remuneration of land-owners will be higher, while the remuneration of
labour-owners will be lower compared to the no-trade scenario
● RentUSTrade > RentUSNo Trade
● WageUSTrade < WageUSNo Trade
Short-run:
● Winners: owners of the factors in the export-oriented industry
● Losers: owners of the factors in the import-oriented industry
Long-run:
● Winners: owners of the factors used intensively in the export-oriented industry
● Losers: owners of the factors used scarcely in the export-oriented industry
orks also in multi-factor economy ( not with just two factors), and it is defined as Specialized-Factor Pattern
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Factor-Price Equalization Theorem:
Even if factors cannot move across countries, if countries face the same relative price, then:
● Workers (of the same skill) will earn the same wage in both countries
● Units of land (of the same quality) will earn the same rental return in both countries
Long-run wages should equalise in all countries
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4 Conclusions
International Trade rises a sizeable trade-off
Generates efficiency gains: resources are better allocated across countries → economies get bigger and richer
Not everybody is gaining from it: winners and losers → redistributive effects within a country
These effects have not only economic consequences, but also political one
Redistributiveeffectsarebehindvoters'grievancesinpartiesandinstitutions...andpavedthewayforPopulist
politicians.
9. POPULISM AND GLOBALIZATION
ifferentcleavages:
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1. Left-Wing Populism (Inequality Cleavage): rich vs poor, redistribution and generalised economic insurance
2. Right-Wing Populism (National Identity Cleavage): protection of national culture, identity and economic
system, protectionism vs”foreign” threats
International Trade can have redistributive effects, hence proper safety net should implemented to avoidthe
f ormation of an anti-globalization constituency
Trade generate economic inequality and job polarisation → winners and losers; economic/social consequences
Inequality express through voting → support this type of politicians because they talk about their fears
ocquier et al. (2022) shows that the implication of international trade are skill-specific:
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Imports in low-skilled intensive goods increase votes and extent of total and right-wing populist parties
If anything, imports in high-skill intensive goods reduce votes of right-wing populism
Increase of diversity in the import basket alleviate the pro-populist effect of low-skill imports
echnological progress:
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Transforming labour relations, employment and wages
Can generate winners and losers
Winners: increase their productivity by complementing their competences with new technologies
Losers: substitute by these new technologies, since they are able to perform the same tasks with a lower cost
Sametypeofconsequences→societymoreproductive,domoreandgetmore→redistributiveeffect,notall
ol gain from it (winners vs losers)
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More machines = less workers → more votes to right wing
Role of crisis: When the economy is weak, voters punish the incumbent parties
he recent rise of populism took place in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis → Syriza (Greece), Podemos (Spain)
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Before crisis, centre-left and centre-right parties were at the power: populism blamed both
Bankers and financial elite to be blamed
Austerity: weakened the social safety net – imposed by supra-national institutions (IMF, EU, ECB) to be blamed
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2 Identity, Status and Culture
Recent decades have brought the rise of ”progressive” values, preferences and beliefs
Example: women empowerment, support for underprivileged minorities, self-expression, cultural globalization
Riseofprogressivevaluescouldhaveleadtoaculturalbacklash,pushingvotersagainsttheelites,recognised
and the keepers and promoters of which values
2.3. Immigration
I mmigration can contribute to the rise of populism, due to both its potential threat:
Economic: labour market competition, welfare recipients,...
Cultural: different cultural background
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Low-skill immigration increases votes for pro nationalistic parties
High-skill immigration reduces votes for pro nationalistic parties
→ importance of education
Mechanisms:
● LS immigration through revision of voting preferences and attitudes towards migrants
● HS immigration through increasing turnout and political institutions attitudes
ocial media (and social network) are particularly attractive for populism parties:
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0 entry barriers; anybody can use it without huge investment
Direct two-way communication with the audience
Well-suited for disseminating simplistic messages