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Chapter 10: Perfect competition
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Perfectly competitive market many buyers and sellers, identical (also known as
homogeneous) products, no barriers to either entry or exit,
and buyers and sellers have perfect
information.
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Demand curve facing a single firm
no individual firm can affect the market price
demand curve facing each firm is perfectly elastic
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Profit maximization produce where MR = MC
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P = MR
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Profit-maximizing level of output
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Economic Profits > 0
Economic profit
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Loss minimization and the shut-down rule Suppose that P < ATC. Since the firm is
experiencing a loss, should it shut down?
Loss if shut down = fixed costs Shut down in the short run only if the
loss that occurs where MR = MC exceeds the loss that would occur if the firm shuts down (= fixed cost)
Stay in business if TR > VC. This implies that P > AVC. Shut down if P < AVC.
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Economic loss (AVC<P< ATC)
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Loss if shut down
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Break-even price If price =
minimum point on ATC curve, economic profit = 0.
Owners receive normal profit.
No incentive for firms to either enter or leave the market.
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P < AVC
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Short-run supply curve A perfectly
competitive firm will produce at the level of output at which P = MC, as long as P > AVC.
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Long run Firms enter if economic profits > 0
market supply increases price declines profit declines until economic profit equals
zero (and entry stops) Firms exit if economic losses occur
market supply decreases price rises losses decline until economic profit equals
zero
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Long-run equilibrium
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Long-run equilibrium and economic efficiency Two desirable efficiency properties
(assuming no market failure) P = MC (Social marginal benefit =
social marginal cost) P = minimum ATC
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Consumer and producer surplus Consumer surplus = net gain from
trade received by consumers (MB > P for consumers up to the last unit consumed)
Producer surplus = net gain received by producers (P > MC up to the last unit sold)
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Consumer and producer surplus
Gains from trade = consumer surplus + producer surplus
Consumer surplus
Producer surplus