analyzing costs
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Long Run Total Cost Curve
Long run total cost curve:
a curve that shows how total cost varies with output, holding input prices fixed, and choosing all inputs to minimize cost.
Figure 8.1. Page 261.
Cost minimization and the long run total cost curve for a producer of television sets.
Figure 8.2. Page 262.
Long Run Total Cost Curve
How Does The Long Run Total Cost Curve Shift When Input Prices Change?
Figure 8.3. Page 263.
Long Run Average Cost
Long run average cost:
the firm total cost per unit of output. It equals long run total cost divided by total quantity.
AC = TC / Q
AC = average cost.
TC = total cost.
Q = output.
Long Run Marginal Cost
Long run marginal cost:
the rate at which long run total cost changes with respect to change in output.
MC = (TC) / (Q)
MC = marginal cost.
TC = total cost.
Q = output.
Figure 8.7. Page 267
long run average and marginal cost
Case:
The production function Q = 50 (LK)1/2
w = 25; r = 100; TC = 2Q
Long run average cost?
Long run marginal cost?
Economies And Diseconomies Of Scale
Economies of scale:
a characteristic of production in which average cost decreases as output goes up.
Diseconomies of scale:
a characteristic of production in which average cost increases as output goes up.
Figure 8.11. Page 271
Economies and Diseconomies.
Short Run Total Cost Curve
Figure 8.13 Page 276
Short run total cost curve, total variable cost curve, total fixed cost curve.
Short Run Average Cost
SAC = STC / Q
SAC = short run average cost.
STC = short run total cost.
Q = output.
Short Run Marginal Cost
SMC = (STC) / (Q)
SMC = short run marginal cost.
STC = short run total cost.
Q = output.
Figure 8.16. Page 279.
Short run marginal and average cost
curves.
Relationship Between The Long Run And The Short Run Average And Marginal Cost Curves
Figure 8.17. Page 280.
The long run average cost curves as an envelope curve.
Figure 8.18. Page 281.
The relationship between the long run and short run.
Homework:
No. 8.6 Page 292.
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