Consider the following environment: there are two countries, Micronesia and Polynesia. There is only one factor of production, labor. Two commodities can be produced, Boats and Fish. It takes 5 hours of a Micronesian’s worker time to carve 1 Boat, while a Polynesian can complete the same task in 4 hours. Catching 1 pound of Fish takes a Micronesian worker 0.5 hours while Polynesians require 1 hour. There are 1,000 worker-hours in Micronesia and 750 in Polynesia. Perfect competition prevails in all markets.
(1)Assume that the two countries are trading with each other and no one else. The overall Relative Demand is given by (Price of Fish/ Price of Boat) = 0.5 (Demand for Boats /Demand for Fish) Construct the Relative Supply curve. Put the relative quantity of Fish on the x-axis and the relative price of Fish on the y-axis. Find the equilibrium relative price and relative quantity, which clear the market.
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