If the U.S. imposed tariffs on goods imported from other countries, and other countries did not retaliate with their own tariffs on U.S. goods, who would gain and who would lose in the U.S.?

Discussion Questions: (Please Provide a reference and in-text citations for each question, also a word count of at least 150 words)

REFERENCE: Mankiw, N. Gregory (2015). Principles of Macroeconomics (7th ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning.

Principles of Macroeconomics, Ch. 3: Interdependence and the Gains From Trade

Question 1:

Consider two countries that produce steel and wheat. The production possibilities frontier for each county is bowed outwards (it is ‘concave to the origin’).

Is it possible for one of the two countries to have the absolute advantage in producing both steel and wheat?

Is it possible for one of the two countries to have the comparative advantage in producing both steel and wheat?

Question 2: If the U.S. imposed tariffs on goods imported from other countries, and other countries did not retaliate with their own tariffs on U.S. goods, who would gain and who would lose in the U.S.?

In your answer, you should

(a) select a good that is imported from abroad and that competes with U.S. produced goods; or

(b) select a good that is used as an input in the production of U.S. produced goods.

Provide examples in your response.

Principles of Macroeconomics, Ch. 4: The Market Forces of Supply and Demand

Several macroeconomic models rely on the basic supply and demand model from microeconomics. Two of these include the market for loanable funds and the markets for labor. What are the ‘prices’ in each of these markets? In the market for loanable funds, how would a large increase in government borrowing to fund national infrastructure spending affect the price and quantity of loanable funds?

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