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Short-run factor demand
A price-taking firm (p = 100) chooses an amount of labor to employ that maximizes its profits. It has a fixed amount of capital (K= 100), and constant returns to scale CobbDouglass production function: q(L, K) = L ^(1/2) K ^(1/2). The wage rate and rental rate of capital are 10 (w = r = 10).
(a) Set up the profit function.
(b) Solve for the optimal level of labor IN THE SHORT RUN.
(c) With additional capital, would the optimal level of labor increase or decrease?
Short-run factor demand
A price-taking firm (p = 100) chooses an amount of labor to employ that maximizes its profits. It has a fixed amount of capital (K= 100), and constant returns to scale CobbDouglass production function: q(L, K) = L ^(1/2) K ^(1/2). The wage rate and rental rate of capital are 10 (w = r = 10).
(a) Set up the profit function.
(b) Solve for the optimal level of labor IN THE SHORT RUN.
(c) With additional capital, would the optimal level of labor increase or decrease?
Namita kumariLv6
28 Sep 2019