The economy is impacted everyday with the means of manufacturing and marketing merchandises or services. In order to produce and sell goods or services firms need to be contained within a market structure. There are different market structures in the economy such as competitive markets, monopolies and oligopolies. Each different market structure has a different way to determine the price of a product in order to maximize its profit. Market structures also need to indicate the degree in which they
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market invents a new method of production that lowers its marginal costs. What happens to its output? What happens to the price it charges? If the firm invents a new method of production that lowers its marginal costs then in turn it will be able to produce or output more. Nothing will occur to the price in which it charges as we know in a perfectly competitive market all of the firms are price takers however, since it is lowering its marginal costs it will wind up gaining a larger profit.
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University of Phoenix Material Business Proposal Feedback Checklist |Important information |Included? |Comments | |Identification of market structure | |Proposed business is based on monopolistic structure. | | |Yes No |As there only one other entity selling
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economic profit C. The more inelastic the demand, the closer marginal revenue is to price D. In the short run a monopoly will shutdown if P < AVC Answer: D 4. Which of the following is true under monopoly? A. Profits are always positive B. P > minimum of ATC C. P = MR D. None of the statements associated with this question are correct Answer: B 5. In the long-run, monopolistically competitive firms: A. Charge prices equal to marginal cost B. Have excess capacity C. Produce at the minimum
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a. setting the price at the level that will maximize per-unit profit. b. producing the output where marginal revenue equals total cost and charging a price along the demand curve. c. selling at the price on the demand curve at the output rate where marginal revenue equals marginal cost. d. producing at the output rate where price equals marginal cost. 3. Which one of the following is the best description of a monopolist? a. a firm that produces a single
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Econ 308 Midterm (Average Revenue) (Marginal Revenue) 1.) a.) # Of Operations | Total Harvest | Average Harvest | Marginal Harvest | Marginal Profit 0 0 0 0 0 1 40 40 40 15 2 75 37.5 35 10 3 105 35 30 5 4 130 32.5 25 0 5 150 30 20 -5 6 165 27.5 15 -10 7 175 25 10
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opportunity cost of the inputs uses. Profit in the short run is that when a period is short enough that some of the firm can’t be varied. Profit in the long run is when the period is long that inputs can be varied. 4. Define Total Product and Marginal Product, and Diminishing Returns. TP: is the total amount produced by a firm during time period. MP: is the extra unit of output obtained by one extra unit of some factor, all other factors being held constant. 5. Calculate MP for the following:
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PRODUCT COSTING A noted earlier, all product costs are charged to inventory. To facilitate this process, manufacturers break inventory into three categories: RM inventory, WIP inventory, and FG inventory. There are two categories of direct cost (DL & DM) and then there is overhead, which is a catch-all term for everything except DL and DM. Raw materials are charged to RM inventory when purchased and transferred to WIP inventory when it is used. DL is charged directly to WIP. Indirect product costs
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The Economies and Diseconomies of Scale and Scope Introduction Most of the company’s strategy in remaining to be competitive is trying to differentiate and get over its rivals which has the intentions of realizing the preferred seller and will have the highest returns into the industry. Thus, the choice of the firm had been affected relatively to the minimum efficient scale and the major issues that had been tackled to this issue are the economies and diseconomies of scale and scope
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Business Proposal Jamie Curet ECO 561 December 19, 2011 Dr. Bob Larkin Everyday more people are starting to get rid of physical magazines, newspapers, and now even books. Many people love to read; however, very few have time to sit down and enjoy a good book. Will Bury is an enterprising inventor who truly believes in his newest invention. His mission is to provide people who already like to read the opportunity to read the same books digitally or to listen to them with a realistic synthetic
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