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Ch 21 4.1 Benefits of international trade: complete notes
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Topics in this chapter
- What you must be able to do
- Benefits of international trade AO2 AO4
- Free trade: world price above the domestic price AO2 AO4
- Free trade: world price below the domestic price AO2 AO4
- Absolute and comparative advantage AO2 AO4
- Linear PPCs and the gains from trade AO2 AO4
- Sources of comparative advantage
- Limitations of the theory of comparative advantage AO3
- Linking to key concepts
“I can” checklist: what you must be able to do
- I can explain the benefits of international trade.
- I can draw free trade with the world price above the domestic price and show exports, and shade the surplus changes.
- I can draw free trade with the world price below the domestic price and show imports, and shade the surplus changes.
- HL: I can calculate from a diagram the quantities of exports and imports, export revenue and import expenditure.
- HL: I can explain absolute and comparative advantage, sources of comparative advantage and opportunity costs.
- HL: I can calculate opportunity costs from data to identify comparative advantage.
- HL: I can draw a linear PPC diagram showing the gains from specialisation and trade.
- HL: I can evaluate the limitations of the theory of comparative advantage.
What is inside the full chapter notes
- Concept notes with 8 worked examples (every number computed)
- Free-trade diagrams (exports, imports) with consumer and producer surplus
- HL: trade calculations, comparative advantage table, PPC with trade lines, limitations
- Common mistakes and a "How to score" command-term box
- 12 Quick-check questions A-D, explained
- Paper 1 style (a) 10 + (b) 15 with mark scheme and markbands
- Paper 2 style data response (36 marks, SL content only)
- HL Paper 3 style question (18 marks) with mark scheme
- Quick reference and "I can" checklist
What you get in the pack
- All 30 topics of IB Diploma Economics for students taking Standard Level or Higher Level (first assessment 2022): what economics is, demand, supply, market equilibrium, behavioural economics, elasticity, government intervention, externalities, public goods, asymmetric information, market power, equity, measuring economic activity, aggregate demand and supply, macroeconomic objectives, inequality and poverty, monetary policy, fiscal policy, supply-side policies, international trade, trade protection, economic integration, exchange rates, balance of payments, sustainable development, measuring development, growth and development strategies
- Every syllabus statement covered in order, each marked SL or HL, with clear notes, tables and diagrams drawn for these notes
- Every diagram the guide names, drawn and labelled, plus worked examples and model answers that show how to earn the marks
- Quick-check multiple-choice questions with explained answers, plus original Paper 1 (extended response), Paper 2 (data response) and, for HL, Paper 3 (policy) style questions with full mark schemes (no past-paper reprints)
- Common mistakes and a how-to-score command-term guide for every topic
- Quick-reference sheet and an "I can" checklist at the end of every topic
- Colour PDF and a black and white copy of every chapter for printing
- Independent notes for IB Diploma students; not endorsed by or affiliated with the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO)
All chapters in this pack
- Ch 1 1.1-1.2 What is economics? and How do economists approach the world?
- Ch 2 2.1 Demand
- Ch 3 2.2 Supply
- Ch 4 2.3 Competitive market equilibrium
- Ch 5 2.4 Critique of the maximizing behaviour of consumers and producers
- Ch 6 2.5 Elasticity of demand
- Ch 7 2.6 Elasticity of supply
- Ch 8 2.7 Role of government in microeconomics
- Ch 9 2.8 Market failure: externalities and common pool resources
- Ch 10 2.9 Market failure: public goods
- Ch 11 2.10 Market failure: asymmetric information (HL)
- Ch 12 2.11 Market failure: market power (HL)
- Ch 13 2.12 The market's inability to achieve equity (HL)
- Ch 14 3.1 Measuring economic activity and illustrating its variations
- Ch 15 3.2 Aggregate demand and aggregate supply
- Ch 16 3.3 Macroeconomic objectives
- Ch 17 3.4 Economics of inequality and poverty
- Ch 18 3.5 Demand management: monetary policy
- Ch 19 3.6 Demand management: fiscal policy
- Ch 20 3.7 Supply-side policies
- Ch 21 4.1 Benefits of international trade
- Ch 22 4.2 Types of trade protection
- Ch 23 4.3 Arguments for and against trade control and protection
- Ch 24 4.4 Economic integration
- Ch 25 4.5 Exchange rates
- Ch 26 4.6 Balance of payments
- Ch 27 4.7 Sustainable development
- Ch 28 4.8 Measuring development
- Ch 29 4.9 Barriers to economic growth and/or economic development
- Ch 30 4.10 Economic growth and/or economic development strategies