
Economics 1st Edition by Dean Karlan,Jonathan Morduch
Edition 1ISBN: 978-0073511498
Economics 1st Edition by Dean Karlan,Jonathan Morduch
Edition 1ISBN: 978-0073511498 Exercise 9
Guatemala represents a small part of the world poultry market. Based on Figure 17P-2 , answer the following.
a. Calculate producer and consumer surplus in autarky.
b. Assume that the world price of poultry is $0.30/kg. If Guatemala opens to trade, what is the domestic quantity consumed and produced? What is the quantity of imports?
c. Calculate the post-trade producer and consumer surplus. Who is better off after trade?

a. Calculate producer and consumer surplus in autarky.
b. Assume that the world price of poultry is $0.30/kg. If Guatemala opens to trade, what is the domestic quantity consumed and produced? What is the quantity of imports?
c. Calculate the post-trade producer and consumer surplus. Who is better off after trade?

Explanation
a.)Producer surplus:
The difference bet...
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