Opportunity Cost, Comparative Advantage and Terms of Trade
This page includes:
Videos discussing comparative advantage
Videos showing how to calculate opportunity cost
Videos on favorable terms of trade with practice
A multiple choice quiz
Open response questions with answers
Comparative Advantage
The following 3 videos introduce absolute and comparative advantage. They demonstrate how to calculate the opportunity costs for output problems and input problems, and how to determine favorable terms of trade.
Videos Calculating Opportunity Cost
This video shows a quick overview of how to calculate opportunity cost when given output numbers
This video shows a quick overview of how to calculate opportunity cost when given input numbers
Determining Terms of Trade
The following 4 videos show how to determine favorable terms of trade and provide some practice examples for you to work out.
Here is a multiple choice quiz on comparative advantage