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    Learning Curve

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    Learning curve in psychology and economics The first person to describe the learning curve was Hermann Ebbinghaus in 1885. He found that the time required to memorize a nonsense word increased sharply as the number of syllables increased.[1] Psychologist‚ Arthur Bills gave a more detailed description of learning curves in 1934. He also discussed the properties of different types of learning curves‚ such as negative acceleration‚ positive acceleration‚ plateaus‚ and ogive curves.[2] In 1936‚ Theodore

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    indifference curve

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    Bombay The long-run cost curve (LTC) is composed of a series of short-run cost curves. Assumes that the firm has only one plant‚ with the corresponding short-run cost curve given by STC1‚ Suppose the firm decides to add two more plants with associated two more short-run cost curves given by STC2 and STC3. Prof. Trupti Mishra‚ School of Management‚ IIT Bombay The long-run total cost curve (LTC) is then drawn through the minimum of the short-run cost curves‚ STC1‚STC2‚ and STC3. The

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    The Phillips Curve

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    THE PHILLIPS CURVE The short-run relationship between inflation and unemployment is often called the Phillips curve. In 1958‚ economist A. W. Phillips published an article in the British journal Economica that would make him famous. The article was titled “The Relationship between Unemployment and the Rate of Change of Money Wages in the United Kingdom‚ 1861–1957.” In it‚ Phillips showed a negative correlation between the rate of unemployment and the rate of inflation. That is‚ Phillips showed

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    The Laffer Curve

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    The Laffer curve‚ named after the economist Arthur Laffer‚ is a curve that demonstrates the trade-off between tax-rates and tax-revenues (Wanniski 1978). It is used to illustrate the concept of taxable income elasticity‚ the idea that a government can maximise the revenue by setting the tax rates at an optimum point. This curve can be traced back as far as 1844 to a French economist Jules Dupit who in 1844 found similar effects as Laffer did (Laffer 2004). Dupit also saw tax revenues rising from

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    Cost Curves

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    besa44438_ch08.qxd 10/12/04 4:49 PM Page 259 8 C H A P T E R COST CURVES 8.1 LONG-RUN COST CURVES APPLICATION 8.1 The Long Run Cost of Trucking APPLICATION 8.2 The Costs of Higher Education APPLICATION 8.3 Economies of Scale in Refining Alumina? APPLICATION 8.4 Hospitals Are Businesses Too APPLICATION 8.5 Tracking Railroad Costs APPLICATION 8.6 Economies of Scope for the 8.2 S H O RT- R U N C O ST C U RV E S 8.3 SPECIAL TOPICS IN COST Swoosh Experience Reduces Costs of Computer Chips

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    Curve Theory

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    Pizza Store Curve Theory February 10‚ 2013 Operations Management/OPS/571 Professor John Quesnel In this paper the approach is to understand the formulation of learning curve theory and objective is to maximize profits and increasing organizational performance for Mario ’s Pizzeria. The three fundamental assumptions followed by the learning curve theory are total time for completing a task decreases with the increased repetition‚ improvement percentage decreases

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    Bathtub Curve

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    The Bathtub Curve and Product Failure Behavior
Part One - The Bathtub Curve‚ Infant Mortality and Burn-in by Dennis J. Wilkins
Retired Hewlett-Packard Senior Reliability Specialist‚ currently a ReliaSoft Reliability Field Consultant
This paper is adapted with permission from work done while at Hewlett-Packard. Reliability specialists often describe the lifetime of a population of products using a graphical representation called the bathtub curve. The bathtub curve consists of three periods: an

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    Lorenz Curve

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    Limitations of the Lorenz Curve The Lorenz Curve illustrates the degree of equality (or inequality) of distribution of income in an economy. It plots the cumulative percentage of income received by cumulative shares of the population and includes a straight line to illustrate perfect income equality. Thus‚ the closer the Lorenz curve is to the straight line‚ the greater the equality in income distribution‚ while‚ the further away it is from the straight line‚ the more unequal the distribution

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    The Learning Curve

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    APPLICATIONS The learning curve: from aircraft to spacecraft? instructions‚ the components‚ and how to assemble them. In addition‚ you may also lack confidence in your ability to produce an acceptable product. The second one‚ however‚ will take you less time‚ as you will be more familiar with the instructions‚ the components‚ and the assembly procedures. You will also be confident of your ability to assemble this product. The third one will take even less time‚ as you will have learned from your earlier

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    Demand Curve

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    “demand curve”. (b) Assess what information may be helpful to the strategic marketer in order to determine demand. (c) Discuss the factors that may create a fluctuation in demand. The demand curve is the graph depicting the relationship between the price of a certain commodity and the amount of it that consumers are willing and able to purchase at that given price. It is a graphic representation of a demand schedule. The demand curve for all consumers together follows from the demand curve of every

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