How does the two-good, two-country version of the Ricardian model diff

How does the two-good, two-country version of the Ricardian model differ from the two-country, many-good model in terms of the determination which goods are produced and exported by each country?

What will be an ideal response?

ANSWER

In the two-good-two-country version of the Ricardian model, comparative advantage is totally determined by physical productivity ratios. Changes in wage rates in either country do not change physically determined comparative advantages, and therefore cannot affect which product will be exported by which country.

However, when there are more than two goods in the two-country model, changes in wage rates in one or the other country can in fact determine which good or goods each of the countries will export. The physical productivity definition of comparative advantage employed in the two-good model becomes ambiguous. Instead, changes in relative wage rates will alter international competitiveness along the “chain of comparative advantage.”