Production,costs And Revenues Flashcards

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What are the different types of economies of scale

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Technical
Managerial
Marketing
Financial
Risk bearing

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Types of diseconomies of scale

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Managerial
Communication failure
Motivational
financial
marketing
bulk buying
specialisation

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Define economies of scale

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Falling LRACs of production that result in the increasing scale or size of a firm

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When do diseconomies of scale occur

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When an increase in output leads to a rising LRACs of production

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What does the L shaped LRAC curve assume

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Substantial economies of scale that don’t turn into diseconomies and instead flatten out lrac
The size of the firm is MES

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What is MES

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Minimum efficient scale

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3 main types of technical economies of scale

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Indivisibilities- minimum size below which they cannot efficiently operate
Spread of R&D
Volume - increasing scale of plant allows to conserve heat and energy

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What is associated with managerial economies of scale

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Specialisation and division of labour

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How can firms spread risks

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Diversifying their output,markets, supply and finances

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What is managerial diseconomies of scale

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When managerial functions are reduces and bad decisions are made

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Define internal economies of scale

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Cost saving resulting from the growth of the firm itself

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What is an external economy of scale

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Cost saving as a result of growth of the MARKET the firm is in

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What allowed car manufacturing to benefit of economies of scale

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Henry Fords adaptation of the moving assembly line

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What is total revenue

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All the money a firm earns from selling the total output of a product

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How is average revenue calculated

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AR= total revenue / output

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How is total profit calculated

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Total revenue - total costs

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What is production

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Production converts inputs into outputs of goods and services

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Short run production

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Occurs when a firm adds variable factors of production to fixed factors

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Long run production

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Occurs when a firm changes the scale of all factors of production

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What is productivity

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Output per worker per period of time

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Productivity gap

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Difference between labour productivity between HICs,LICs,NEEs

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How will total output improve through specialisation

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Saving time through not switching tasks
Better machinery or capital can be employed
“Practice makes perfect”

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Production definition

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the process of converting inputs of FoP into outputs

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productivity

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a measure of efficiency in which inputs are transformed into outputs calculated by unit of output per worker over time

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importance of productivty
economic growth (GDP) competitiveness (lower price, higher quality) higher wages and standard of living
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specialisation
concentration of individuals or firms on producing a singular or limited amount of goods and services
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Adam smiths contribution to specialisation
he argued that it leads to increased productivity and economic growth
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advantages of specialisation
increased productivity, higher skills, more efficiency EOS- large amount of goods can't be produced quickly lower costs - reduced training time
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disadvantages of specialisation
monotony dependency - economy dependent on singular economy very vulnerable to economic shocks
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short run
at least one factor of production is fixed whilst others are variable
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long run
all factors and costs of production are variable
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marginal returns
return on additional FoP invested in
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average returns
output per unit of input / by all input
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total returns
value of all derived output from additional inputs
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law of diminishing returns
profit/ returns must start to decrease once a certain level of investment is reached after optimal capacity
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returns to scale
a rate at which a change in output leads to a. change in input (long term theory)
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increasing returns to scale
output increases when FoP increase
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assumptions of returns to scale
all FoP are variable market is perfectly competitive technology is constant
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diminishing returns to scale
output changes less than the proportionate change in input
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fixed cost
a CoP/ business expense that does not increase or decrease with changes in output of good and services e.g. labour
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variable costs
costs that change wit volume of output e.g. raw materials
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AC
costs per output unit
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TC
variable + fixed costs
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reason for U shaped cost curve
due to economies of scale and diseconomies of scale. If a firm has high fixed costs, increasing output will lead to lower average costs.
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