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国际经济学 (克鲁格曼) 教材答案--第1页 . Chapter 3 1．Home has 1200 units of labor available. It can produce two goods, apples and bananas. The unit labor requirement in apple production is 3, while in banana production it is 2. a ．Graph out the production possibilities frontier: Homes PPF Q banana 800 600 400 200 0 200 400 600 800 Q apple b ．What is the opportunity cost of apples in terms of bananas? a La 1.5 a Lb c ．In the absence of trade, what would the price of apples in terms of bananas be? In the absence of trade, since labor is the only factor of production and supply decisions are determined by the attempts of individuals to maximize their earnings in a competitive economy, only when P /P a /a will both goods be produced. So P /P 1.5 a b La Lb a b 2 ．Home is as described in problem 1. There is now also another country, Foreign, with a labor force of 800. Foreig