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✈️ Welcome

Trade isn't about who's better. It's about who gives up less. — Rina

🗓️ Reminder

Passport expires June. FINALLY going to Kyoto.

📧 Inbox — GD Mail

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● Unread 🚩 Flagged 🌍 Global Commerce

FROM TOtrade@globaldynamics.corp RE

— Sent from Global Dynamics Executive Mail 🏢

📊 Production Data

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Scenario

TRADE

📏 OUTPUT-based: "How much can each produce in 1 day?"

🌍 Trade Tools — Analysis Workflow

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Progress

💪 Who has the Absolute Advantage?

Who can produce more of the highlighted good?

🧮 Calculate Opportunity Costs

Fill in both blanks. Express OC of Good A in terms of Good B.

🎯 Who has the Comparative Advantage?

Whoever gives up less has the comparative advantage.

🤝 Accept the Trade Offer?

GD must pick the deal that beats producing alone.

📊 Quarterly Results

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Revenue Impact

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📋 Trade Cheat Sheet

⚠️ Opening the cheat sheet costs $25,000 — once per round!

💪 Absolute Advantage

The ability to produce more of a good (output mode) or use fewer resources per unit (input mode). Just a raw comparison of numbers.

🧮 Opportunity Cost (OC)

Output mode: OC of 1 A = (B ÷ A). Input mode: OC of 1 A = (hours A ÷ hours B).
"What do I give up to make one more A?"

🎯 Comparative Advantage

The producer with the LOWER opportunity cost has CA in that good. CA ≠ AA — a country can have AA in both goods but only CA in one.

🤝 Terms of Trade

A rate is mutually beneficial if it falls between the two producers' OCs. Outside that range, one side loses.

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Travel expenses from last year's "fact-finding mission" to Bali. Accounting flagged everything.

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Trade Routes

AP Micro/Macro · Comparative Advantage

Welcome to the International Trade Division at Global Dynamics Corp. Execs need your read on 5 cross-border production deals. Find who should make what, and whether the proposed trade is worth it. 🌐

🧭 How to play

Read each email and check the production data
Identify who has absolute advantage
Calculate both parties' opportunity costs
Identify who has comparative advantage
Evaluate if the trade terms benefit GD

Final Trade Report

Company Revenue