Explain how the law of diminishing returns and returns to scale affect a firm’s cost of production (20 Marks) The law of diminishing returns exist when increasing quantities of a variable input are combined with a fixed input‚ which eventually leads to the marginal product and the average product of that variable input will decline. Diminishing returns can affect a firms cost of production negatively in the short run. An example of this is that a business had 2 factors of production; Capital‚ which
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Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility’ A law of economics stating that as a person increases consumption of a product - while keeping consumption of other products constant - there is a decline in the marginal utility that person derives from consuming each additional unit of that product. EXPLANATION This is the premise on which buffet-style restaurants operate. They entice you with "all you can eat‚" all the while knowing each additional plate of food provides less utility than the one before
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utility. That is utility - the meeting of a need or being satisfied. Now Marginal Utility is the change in utility from one more good or service being consumed. So the amount of utility from the first cup of coffee or that first breath is huge. Diminishing Marginal Utility is the fact that each addition good or service consumed‚ creates a smaller and smaller amount of additional utility. In the examples above‚ that second cup of coffee in the morning or the second breath after the first will provide
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Demands of the question 10 marks (paper 2) 20 minutes on it Explain the law of diminishing returns using average and marginal product curves Definition Law of diminishing returns refer to how the marginal production of a factor of production starts to progressively decrease as the factor is increased‚ in contrast to the increase that would otherwise be normally expected. Triple A Law of diminishing returns – as more and more of a variable factor is added to a fixed factor‚ output will
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profit. Production can be divided into two types‚ that is short-run production and long-run production. Production in the short-run is the production period of time over which at least one factor is fixed as production in the long-run is the production period of time long enough for all factors to be varied. As mentioned by Sloman‚ (2004)‚ production in the short-run is subject to diminishing returns. The law of diminishing (marginal) return applies whereby there will be a point when each extra unit
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Economics 503 Foundations of Economic Analysis Assigned: Week 4 Due: Week 5 1. Using aggregate demand‚ short-run aggregate supply and long-run aggregate supply curves‚ explain the process by which each of the following economic events will move the economy from one long-run macroeconomic equilibrium to another. Illustrate with diagrams. In each case‚ what are the short-run and long-run effects on the aggregate price level and aggregate output? a. There is a decrease in households’ wealth
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THE LAWS OF RETURN TO SCALE The laws of return to scale explain the behavior of output in response to a proportional and simultaneous change in input. Increase in inputs proportionately and simultaneously is in fact expansion of the scale of production. Statement: “As a firm in the long run increases the quantities of all factors employed‚ other things being equal‚ the output may rise initially at a more rapid rate than the rise of increase in inputs‚ then output may increase in the same proportion
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* Short Run Costs A period of time in which the quantity of some inputs cannot be increased beyond the fixed amount that is available. For example‚ what quantity of inventory to order is a short run decision. Whether or not to build a new factory would be considered a long run decision. 1. Total fixed Coast The total fixed cost curve graphically represents the relation between total fixed costs incurred by a firm in the short-run production of a good or service and the quantity produced
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Equilibrium of the Industry: Short-Run and Long-Run Equilibrium! Since the price of a product under perfect competition is determined by the intersection of the demand and supply curves of the product of an industry‚ we need to know the nature and shape of the supply curve of a product under perfect competition. We shall now explain how the supply curve of a product under condition of perfect competition is derived and the shape it takes both in the short run and the long run. Before explaining the
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Run Andre Run Man it was very hot today. When i picked up the water buckets to carry too our shed i could feel the sizzling metal nearly giving me blisters on my lower fingertips. I had to drop them it felt like my fingers were melting off. Mother yelled at me. “Andre better bring them buckets here before master sees and you know you can’t afford a whipping this early in the week.” “I apologize ma’am‚” i replied nervously I picked the buckets back up and started carrying them over to the well
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