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Chapter 11 & 12 Flashcards

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Explicit Costs

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costs that require an outlay of money; paying for items/ services for firms; ie. rent, electricity, salary paid to workers

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Implicit Costs

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costs that do not require an outlay of money; opportunity costs; ie. labor and capital

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Normal Rate of Return

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rate of return just enough to keep owners and investors satisfied; two opportunity costs are equal and your economic profit is $0

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Short Run

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a period of time where at least one factor of production (LLK) is fized and there is no entry or exit to or from the industry

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Long Run

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a period of time where all factors of production (LLK) are variable and there is free entry or exit to and from the industry

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Bases of a firm’s decisions

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  • market (output) price
  • production techniques available
  • input prices
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Optimal Method of Production

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some production techniques are more labor intensive and others are more capital intensive

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Production Function

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relationship between quantity of input used and quantity of output produced; in the short run constrained by the fixed factor of production; limited by resources and space

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Marginal Product of Labor (MPL)

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the additional product that an additional unit of labor will produce; MPL= change in TP/ change in L

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Law of Diminishing Returns

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Short run phenomenon; in the short run after a certain point (which varies) when additional inputs are added, the marginal product of that input declines; at some point a firm is constrained by a fixed factor of production in the s.r.

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Average Product of Labor (APL)

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average product produced by each variable unit of input; APL= TP/L

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Fixed Costs (FC)

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sum of all costs that do not vary with output even if output is 0; ie. rent, electricity, water

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Variable Costs (VC)

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the sum of all costs that do vary with output in the short run; to produce more output a firm requires more inputs

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Total Cost

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FC+VC

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Average Fixed Cost (AFC)

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AFC=FC/Q; steadily declining curve that approaches but never touches the quantity axis

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Average Variable Cost (AVC)

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AVC=VC/Q; U-shaped; decreases; reaches minimum then increases

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Average Total Cost (ATC)

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ATC=TC/Q or ATC=AFC+AVC; U-shaped gets closer and closer to AVC as Q increases

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Marginal Cost

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change in the total cost from producing an additional unit; MC=change in TC/change in Q; upside down version of MPL; after minimum diminishing returns set in

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Long Run Average Cost Curve

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graph that shows different scales on which a firm may choose to operate in the long run; shape differs; not every LRAC will increase

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Economies of Scale

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occurs when you increase the firm’s scale of production and the average cost per unit decreases

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Constant Returns to Scale (CRS)

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increase the scale of production and this leads to constant average costs

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Diseconomies of Scale

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increase scale of production which leads to an increase in average cost; the reason the firms experience diseconomies of scale in the long run is because they experience waste and mismanagement -> too top heavy; not because of diminishing returns; diminishing returns only occur in the short run because they are constrained by fixed factors of production

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Long Run Equilibrium

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at the point where P=MC=SRAC=LRAC (in perfect competition)

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Market Power

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the ability to raise prices without losing all of its quantity demanded for that product

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Perfect Competition

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an industry structure in which:

  • there are many firms
  • each firm is small, relative to the overall market
  • products are homogeneous (identical)
  • have no market power so they are price takers
  • free entry and exit to and from the industry; there are no barriers to entry
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Marginal Revenue

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gives us the change in total revenue from producing an additional unit of output; MR= change in TR/change in Q; in perfect competition D=MR

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Profit Maximizing Rule

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as long as MR exceeds MC you want you keep on producing until you hit the profit-maximizing point of output= P=MR=MC

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Perfect Competition Short Run Scenarios

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  • Positive economic profits
  • Break Even
  • Earning economic losses (can stay open or shut down)
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Shutdown Rule

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  • if TR>VC stay open
  • if TRAVC stay open
  • if P
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Long Run Scenarios

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  • making money in the short run you expand in the long run and firms enter
  • breaking even stay as is
  • if losing money in short run firms exit and contract
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If new firms enter

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supply shifts to right and prices go down; supply shifts tot he right so much until firms break even or Price equals the point where ATC crosses MC

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In Perfect Competition in the Long Run

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all firms break even; P=MC=MR=ATC

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