ECON 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Competitive Equilibrium, Marginal Revenue, Marginal Product

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28 Aug 2020

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Irvine Valley College

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Economics

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ECON 20

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Increasing returns to scale or economies of scale: an increase in a firm"s scale of production leads to lower costs per unit produced. Constant returns to sale: an increase in a firm"s sale of production has no effect on costs per unit produced. Firms can choose from three factor atc sizes: s, m, l. In both sr and lr, p= mc for firm and q(s) = q (d) in perfect competitive market. Economic profit = 0 this happens in lr equilibrium but doesn"t have to happen in. The firms in the business want to stay in the business and those who aren"t in the business don"t want in (long run) Short run expansion and losses o equilibrium: (attach pics here) And there are enough firms so that supply equals demand. The long-run adjustment mechanism: investment flows toward profit opportunities. The entry and exit of firms in response to profit opportunities usually involve the financial capital market.

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The daily demand for travel at a small regional airport is initially QD = 1000 - p; where quantity is in passengers and price is in dollars per passenger. There are initially 10 price-taking firms serving this market and each of them has the production function: q = sqrt (lk) where q is in passengers, and labor and capital are in some appropriately specified units. The price of a unit of labor is w = 100 per day; the price of a unit of capital is v = 100 per day, and this industry has constant costs. Each firm initially has a capital stock of k0 = 80. day; and this industry has constant costs. Each firm initially has a capital stock of k0 = 80.

(a) Derive the short-run cost function, SC(q), for each firm in the market.

(b) Derive the short-run market supply function, QS.

(c) Find the short-run competitive equilibrium price, p*, and quantity, Q*. How much labor, L*, does the industry employ at the competitive equilibrium?

(d) Derive the long-run cost function, C(q), of each firm in the industry.

(e) Describe the long-run market supply curve. Does the short-run competitive equilibrium at (Q*; p*) also correspond to a long-run competitive equilibrium? Explain why or why not.

Now, imagine that a catastrophic event causes the daily demand for air travel in this market to fall unexpectedly to ~QD = 750 - p Continue to assume that each of the 10 firms has a capital of k0 = 80 in the short run.

(f) Find the new short-run competitive equilibrium price, p**, and quantity, Q**, in this market. How much labor, L**, does the industry employ in the new short-run competitive equilibrium?

(g) What is the new long-run competitive equilibrium price, p***, and quantity, Q***? Describe what must happen as the industry moves from the short-run competitive equilibrium at (Q**; p**) to the long-run competitive equilibrium at (Q***; p***). How much labor L*** does the industry employ at the new long-run equilibrium?

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Given the following short-run production cost schedule:

Quantity Produced	Total Cost ($)
0	20
1	27
2	38
3	53
4	73
5	100
6	130

The table above gives the short-run total cost function for a typical firm in a perfectly competitive industry.

(a) What is the dollar value of the firm's total fixed cost?

(b) Calculate the marginal cost of producing the first unit of output.

(d) Explain your answer in (c) above.

(e) Given your results, what will happen to the number of firms in the industry in the long-run (assuming there is no barrier to entry). Explain.

(f) Input the above data in excel and draw, using excel, the (1) total cost, (2) fixed cost, and (3) average variable cost curves for the above firm.

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Q8. To arrive at a logical determination of a firm's optimum output, economists assume that the firm seeks to
a. maximize output
b. minimize cost
c. maximize profit or minimize loss
d. maximize price

Q9. So long as marginal cost is rising, average variable cost must rise.
a. true
b. false

Q10. As output increases, marginal cost increases, reaches a maximum, and then falls.
a. true
b. false

Q11. Which of the following is the best example of variable cost?
a. depreciation on a building
b. property taxes
c. wages
d. rent paid for one's building

Q12. If the AVC is $12, the AFC is $4, the AR is $20, and output is 6,000 units, the total profit is
a. $72,000
b. $48,000
c. $24,000
d. negative $96,000

Q13. Under perfect competition, if a firm is suffering a loss,
a. MR exceeds ATC
b. AR equals AVC
c. AR equals ATC
d. AR is less than ATC

Q14. Elaine's firm is in a perfectly competitive industry. Why doesn't Elaine try to sell more of her product by lowering its price below the market price?
a. her demand curve is not elastic
b. doing so would be considered unethical price chiseling
c. her competitors would not allow it
d. she can sell all she wants at the market price

Q15. In the long run, perfect competition results in firms producing
a. at the minimum point of their long-run average cost curves, which indicates allocative efficiency
b. where price equals marginal cost, which indicates economic efficiency
c. where price equals marginal cost, which indicates the optimal scale of operation
d. at the minimum point of their long-run average cost curves, which indicates economic efficiency

Q16. On a graph of average cost curves, the space between ATC and AVC represents AFC.
a. true
b. false

Q18. If MC equals MR at a point greater than ATC, the perfectly competitive firm will
a. sustain a loss
b. shut down
c. make an economic profit
d. expand output

Q19. Since all producers have the same average revenue under conditions of perfect competition, they all have the same profits in the short run.
a. true
b. false

Q20. If the entry of new firms in a perfectly competitive industry substantially increases the market demand for resources,
a. this reduces the market price of resources
b. this raises the market price of resources
c. the market price of resources does not change
d. this lowers the ATC curves of individual firms

Q22. Under conditions of perfect competition, profits exist whenever AR is above AVC at equilibrium output.
a. true
b. false

Q23. Under perfect competition, market price is determined by market demand and supply.
a. true
b. false

Q24. If one firm in a perfectly competitive industry is somehow able to produce at a lower cost than competing firms in the short run,
a. the competing firms will adopt similar production techniques in the long run
b. the more efficient firm will earn higher profits than the competing firms in the long run
c. the competing firms will earn higher profits than the more efficient firm in the short run
d. the competing firms will go out of business in the long run

ECON 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Competitive Equilibrium, Marginal Revenue, Marginal Product

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