higher costs for consumers. [1] With few sellers‚ each oligopolist is likely to be aware of the actions of the others. The decisions of one firm therefore influence and are influenced by the decisions of other firms. Strategic planning by oligopolists needs to take into account the likely responses of the other market participants. Description[edit] Oligopoly is a common market form where a small number of firms are in competition. As a quantitative description of oligopoly‚ the four-firm concentration
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3.05 Marginal Cost Analysis Name:______________________________________________ Step One: Launch the data generator to get started (located in the last page of the lesson‚ or use the numbers given below: Quantity Price (in whole dollars) Total Revenue Marginal Revenue Total Cost Marginal Cost Profit (or loss) 0 42 0 35 1 41 41 68 2 40 80 94 3 39 117 107 4 38 152 114 5 37 185 129 6 36 216 180 7 35 245 235 8 34 272 296 Step Two: Determine a product
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Marginal Revenue and Marginal Cost An understanding of marginal revenue and marginal cost is economically crucial to owning and operating a successful business. Marginal revenue is the amount of change in total revenue by selling one additional product. So if a company sells four extra unit of product and brings extra total revenue of 500 dollars than the marginal revenue for this month would be 125 dollars. This is found by taking the change in total revenue‚ 500 dollars‚ and dividing it by the
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are the manager of a firm that produces output in two plants. The demand for your firm’s product is P = 78 - 15Q‚ where Q = Q1 + Q2. The marginal costs associated with producing in the two plants are MC1 = 3Q1 and MC2 = 2Q2. How much output should be produced in plant 1 in order to maximize profits? A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4 2. You are the manager of a firm that produces output in two plants. The demand for your firm’s product is P = 78 - 15Q‚ where Q = Q1 + Q2. The marginal costs associated with producing
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at the P=MC level of output. Price is a signal from buyers to sellers‚ and the price seen by fi rms signals the marginal benefi t of consumers in the market. If the price consumers pay for a product is greater than the marginal cost to fi rms of producing it‚ then the message being sent to producers is that more output is demanded. In the pursuit of profi ts‚ more resources will be allocated towards the production of the product until the marginal cost and the price are equal. At the P=MC
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*Define scarcity and opportunity cost. What role these two concepts play in the making of business decisions? Scarcity is a Ever-present situation in all markets whereby either less goods are available than the demand for them‚ or only too little money is available to their potential buyers for making the purchase. This universal phenomenon leads to the definition of economics as the "science of allocation of scarce resources." Opportunity cost is the cost of an alternative that must be
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obtained for their industry. Marginal revenue‚ marginal cost‚ total cost and profit-maximizing are some of the concepts that are analyzed when making business production decisions. Marginal revenue is the total revenue that is changed when one more unit of output is produced. The total revenue is determined by multiplying the unit price by what quantity the company can sell. The total revenue increases when the first unit is purchased and equals the marginal revenue. When the second unit is produced
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advertisements or letters to potential voters in a reelection campaign. Describe the production function for campaign votes. How might information about this function (such as the shape of the isoquants) help the campaign manager to plan strategy? The output of concern to the campaign manager is the number of votes. The production function has two inputs‚ television advertising and letters. The use of these inputs requires knowledge of the substitution possibilities between them. If the inputs are
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for the production of fusion power has given a firm monopoly power in the provision of this good. What is true of the relationship between the price of this resource and the marginal revenue the firm receives? 25-1 (a) The demand curve faced by the firm is the downward-sloping market demand curve‚ so price exceeds marginal revenue at all quantities beyond the first unit produced. 25-3 The following table depicts the daily output‚ price‚ and costs of a monopoly dry cleaner located near the campus
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business and how the new equipment will help the business to function and the cost of the product will determine what the managers of the business decides. Marginal costs are change in total costs divided by change in output. Marginal revenue is the change in total revenue divided by change in output. Increase in fixed costs means that when the fixed costs cannot be changed it is the short run and when the fixed costs change it is the long run. The second questions that I chose to answer was
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