chapter 7 Flashcards

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firms

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a business concern, especially one involving a partnership of two or more people

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single proprietorship

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firm w/one owner who is personally responsible for the firm’s actions/debts

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ordinary partnership

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firm w/2 or more joint owners

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limited partnership

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firm w/2 classes of owners: general and limited
general = managers and liable for firm’s actions/debts
limited = only risk is money they have invested

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5
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corporation

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firm that has a legal existence separate from that of the owners

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state-owned enterprise

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firm owned by the gov’t

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non-profit

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first that provide goods and services with the objective of just covering their costs; aka NGOs

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multinational enterprises

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firms w/operations in more than one country

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9
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dividends

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profits paid out to shareholders of a corporation

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bond

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debt instrument carrying a specified amount, a schedule of interest payments, and usually a date for redemption of its face value

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11
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2 assumptions about firms

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  1. they are profit maximizers

2. each firm is a single, consistent decision-making unit

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12
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what are the 4 categories of inputs?

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  1. outputs from some other firm
  2. provided by nature
  3. services of workers/managers
  4. services from physical capital (e.g. facilities, machines)
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intermediate product

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all outputs that are used as inputs by other producers in a further stage of production

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production function

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a functional relation showing the maximum output that can be produced by any given combination of inputs

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economic profits

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difference between the revenues received from the sale of output and the opportunity cost of the inputs used to make the output

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16
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what’s a negative economic profit?

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economic loss

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17
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formula for accounting profits?

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= revenue - explicit costs

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what’s an explicit cost?

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involve a purchase of goods/services by the firm

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what’s an implicit cost?

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items for which there is no market transaction but for which there is still an opportunity cost (time and capital)

20
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formula for economic profit?

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revenues - (explicit costs + implicit costs)

= accounting profits - implicit costs

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short run

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period of time in which the qtty of some inputs can’t be increased beyond the fixed amount that is available

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fixed factor

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input whose qtty can’t be changed in the short run

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variable factor

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input whose qtty can be changed over the time period under consideration

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long run

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period of time in which all inputs may be varied, but the existing tech of production can’t be changed

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economic profits/losses play a crucial signaling role in....
workings of a free-market system
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very long run
period of time that's long enough for the tech possibilities available to a firm to change
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total product (TP)
total amount produced by a firm during some time period
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average product
total product divided by # units of the variable factor used to produce it TP/L
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marginal product
change in total output that results from using one more unit of a variable factor
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law of diminishing returns
if increasing quantities of a variable factor are applied to a given quantity of fixed factors, the marginal product of the variable factor will eventually decrease
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if increasing quantities of a variable factor are applied to a given quantity of fixed factors, the average product of the variable factor will eventually (increase/decrease)
decrease
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total cost
total cost of producing any given level of output; can be divided into total fixed and total variable cost
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total fixed cost
all costs of production that do not vary with the level of of output
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total variable cost
total costs of production that vary directly with the level of output
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average total cost
total cost of producing a given output divided by the number of units of output; can also be calculated as the sum of average fixed costs and average variable costs (unit or avg cost)
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average fixed cost
total fixed cost divided by the number of units of output
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average variable cost
total variable cost divided by the number of units of output
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marginal cost
increase in total cost resulting form increasing output by one unit
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diminishing average product of the variable factor implies eventually (increasing/decreasing) variable cost
increasing
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eventually diminishing marginal product of the variable factor implies eventually (increasing/decreasing) marginal costs
increasing
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what's a firm's profit?
difference between its total revenue and its total costs
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what does a production function relate?
inputs of factor services to output
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capacity
upper limit that cannot be exceeded