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Hello! Hallo! Ciao! Konnichiwa!
Indonesia has been educated to discriminate between Social and Science program. I don't know why could they think about it. I think in this universe didn't really matter about it. As long as they can do it, why not?
As a person who take Social program, I have felt that people discriminate me and my friend already. They thought that who take Social program is a bunch of people who can think quickly and of course.. they look us like the stupid one. They actually wrong at all! I'm here right now, to motivate my own self and yourself too. I will clarify it all!
Do you have a lil dream to study about whereas you don't have enough money to reach it all?


Don't worry! There's much scholarships those are waiting for us! Don't look down your own self because you take social program, you can, you actually can do it!! If we have lose before the battle, how could we get it all? Never give up, that's my quote. I knew that I am not smart person who always get number one in my class, no, moreover I didn't get number. I knew that my ability. But, since I knew that is much scholarships are waiting for us, I want chase it 'till death! 'Till I get it! And I have a dream to live abroad. Don't ever to make useless the chance that's opened.



I'm here have no mean to make Science and Social students feel bad about my post. I just reveal all that I've. Ganbatte! We can reach it all. Anyway, since I had been busy about my senior year, I didn't write on this. I've been missing this blog!! ^_^

Senior year? Yeah! I'll enroll an university this year, but I'm still confused about my major. But, praying is the better choice to throw away that feeling. And guess what.. I have registered scholarship to study abroad, the decision is around January 2013. I wish I can stay up until the final result. I'm so afraid about the result, but I'm optimist and plan B is waiting me. But I really wish, this gonna be true soon. amen ^_^

Peace ^^V



Best Regards,

Fanny Oktaviana. :)

Scholarship to study abroad? Taking social program?

//Tuesday, January 8, 2013
//Posted by Unknown
Good Afternoon, Friends!
How are you? Fine? Hope you are fine~ Now, I'll talk new topic, tomorrow we have Scholarship (Interview) topic, right? Then I'll ask you, do you have interest to study about Business? I'll explain the part of it and that's about International Trade! Tadaaa~ Start!


International Trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories. In most countries, such trade represents a significant share of gross domestic product (GDP). While international trade has been present throughout much of history (see Silk Road, Amber Road), its economic, social, and political importance has been on the rise in recent centuries.
Industrialization, advanced transportation, globalization, multinational corporations, and outsourcing are all having a major impact on the international trade system. Increasing international trade is crucial to the continuance of globalization. Without international trade, nations would be limited to the goods and services produced within their own borders.
International trade is, in principle, not different from domestic trade as the motivation and the behavior of parties involved in a trade do not change fundamentally regardless of whether trade is across a border or not. The main difference is that international trade is typically more costly than domestic trade. The reason is that a border typically imposes additional costs such as tariffs, time costs due to border delays and costs associated with country differences such as language, the legal system or culture.

The model of International Trade: 
1.     Adam Smith Model
Adam Smith displays trade taking place on the basis of countries exercising absolute cost advantage over one another.
2.     Ricardian model
The Ricardian model focuses on comparative advantage, perhaps the most important concept in international trade theory. In a Ricardian model, countries specialize in producing what they produce best, and trade occurs due to technological differences between countries. Unlike other models, the Ricardian framework predicts that countries will fully specialize instead of producing a broad array of goods.
Also, the Ricardian model does not directly consider factor endowments, such as the relative amounts of labor and capital within a country. The main merit of Ricardian model is that it assumes technological differences between countries. Technological gap is easily included in the Ricardian and Ricardo-Sraffa model (See the Ricardian theory (modern development)).
The Ricardian model makes the following assumptions:
  1. Labor is the only primary input to production (labor is considered to be the ultimate source of value).
  2. Constant Marginal Product of Labor (MPL) (Labor productivity is constant, constant returns to scale, and simple technology.)
  3. Limited amount of labor in the economy
  4. Labor is perfectly mobile among sectors but not internationally.
  5. Perfect competition (price-takers).
The Ricardian model applies in the short run, so that technology may vary internationally. This supports the fact that countries follow their comparative advantage and allows for specialization.
For the modern development of Ricardian model, see the subsection below: Ricardian theory of international trade.
3.      Heckscher-Ohlin model
In the early 1900s an international trade theory called factor proportions theory was developed by two Swedish economists, Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin. This theory is therefore called the Heckscher-Ohlin theory (H-O theory). The H-O theory stresses that countries should produce and export goods that require resources (factors) that are abundant and import goods that require resources in short supply. It differs from the theories of comparative advantage and absolute advantage since those theories focus on the productivity of the production process for a particular good. On the contrary, the Heckscher-Ohlin theory states that a country should specialize in producing and exporting products that use the factors that are most abundant, and thus are the cheapest to produce.
The Heckscher-Ohlin model was produced as an alternative to the Ricardian model of basic comparative advantage. Despite its greater complexity it did not prove much more accurate in its predictions. However from a theoretical point of view it did provide an elegant method of incorporating the neoclassical price mechanism into international trade theory.
The theory argues that the pattern of international trade is determined by differences in factor endowments. It predicts that countries will export those goods that make intensive use of locally abundant factors and will import goods that make intensive use of factors that are locally scarce. Empirical problems with the H-O model, such as the Leontief paradox, were exposed in empirical tests by Wassily Leontief who found that the United States tended to export labor-intensive goods despite having an abundance of capital.
The H-O model makes the following core assumptions:
  1. Labor and capital flow freely between sectors
  2. The amount of labor and capital in two countries differ (difference in endowments)
  3. Free trade 
  4. Technology is the same among countries (a long-term assumption)
  5. Tastes are the same.
The problem with the H-O theory is that it excludes the trade of capital goods (including materials and fuels). In the H-O theory, labor and capital are fixed entities endowed to each country. In a modern economy, capital goods are traded internationally. Gains from trade of intermediate goods are considerable, as emphasized by Samuelson (2001).

This is so interesting, isn't it? I hope you like it and have same interest with me too! Thanks for read. See you in next post!

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International Trade

//Wednesday, June 6, 2012
//Posted by Unknown