FINALS Flashcards
Creation of goods and services
Converts natural resources to products
Production
Natural Resources is equal to what?
Finished Goods
What are the 5 M’s?
Manpower, Money, Machine, Materials, Method
What are the Factors of Production?
Land, Labor, Capital, Entrepreneur
Plant size and the efficiency of its resources, functional relation between inputs and ouputs.
Shows maximum number of outputs can be produced with a given labor or capital
Resources are fixed in the short run
If the plant size and resources change in the long run so is the production capacity.
Production Function
Do not change as output increased or decreased
ex. offices, factories, machinery, computer systems
Fixed Factor Inputs
You can change to change output
ex. labor, raw materials used in production
Variable Factor Inputs
can increase output w/used of limited stock of inputs.
Very Short Run
Can increase input by using more variable such as hiring workers at least one factor of production is fixed
Short run
increase its scale of operations
no fixed factors, all variables
Long Run
there is a significant change in the technology
Very Long Run
output per unit of the variable inputs
Average Product or AP
What is the formula of AP?
AP=Q/I
AP= AVERAGE PRODUCT
Q= TOTAL PRODUCT/OUTPUT
I=RESOURCE INPUT
change in output because of additional input
MARGINAL PRODUCT
What is the formula of Marginal Product?
MP=∆Q/∆I
MP= MARGINAL PRODUCT
Q=TOTAL PRODUCT/OUTPUT
I=RESOURCE INPUT
∆= CHANGES IN
What are the 3 stages of production?
Increasing Returns
Diminishing Returns
Negative
adding more variable factors, will used fixed factors, increase production
Increasing Returns
another adding more variable factors, overall output starts to diminish
Diminishing Returns
excessively adding variable factors, negative return of production
Negative
- It is the used of variable factors against the limits of fixed factors
- size of resource should not go beyond its product-maximizing point
- plant capacity can only increase if there is a change in technology
The Law of Diminishing Returns
- illustrates more dynamically how plant sizes and combinations of resources determined different levels of resource efficiency.
ISOQUANT- ISOCOST MODEL
Combination of factors that can produce output
Less capital, more labor
ISOQUANT (what can be produced)
How much of one resource is given up using additional units
Amount of a good that a consumer is willing to consume compared to another good, as long as the new good is equally satisfying
Marginal Rate of Substitution
What is the formula for Marginal Rate Substitution?
MRS=∆capital/∆labor
∆=change in
infinite combinations of production resources with a given budget
ISOCOST
different levels of resource inputs and plant capacity
- infinite number of isoquants, infinite level of plant capacity
HIERARCHY OF ISOQUANT
different budget and cost levels
- infinite combinations of production resources with a given budget
HIERARCHY OF ISOCOST
equi marginal condition of consumer’s behavior
- favors use cheaper & more efficient inputs to maximize production
OPTIMUM RESEARCH COMBINATION
how much of 1 resource is used per unit of the other.
- optimum changes with relative resource price and efficiency.
RESOURCE MIX OR COMBINATION
power of inputs to produce
PRODUCTIVITY
productivity improvement and alter the optimum combination of resources
RELATIVE RESOURCE EFFICIENCY
measures how output changes relative to resource inputs in the long run
- variation or change in productivity that is outcome from the increase of all the input
Return to scale of productivity
equal, increasing input, increasing output
CONSTANT RETURN SCALE
Output is less, input increase
DECREASING RETURN SCALE
Output increase than input resources
Increasing return scale
What is the formula for Profit?
Cost-Revenue
value of money that has been used up in production
Cost
Machine, Land, Equipment
Real Assets
Form of Money
Money Assets
forgone benefit from an option not chosen
Opportunity Cost
cost that is incurred by virtue of using an asset instead of investing it
Imputed Cost
direct and indirect costs that are used in production
Production Cost
constant in any production level
Fixed Cost
change based on production level
Variable Costs