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2. ECONOMIC COSTS
Keep in mind!
Resources are scarce and are used to
produce many different products.
The economic cost of using resources
to produce a product is an opportunity
cost: the value or worth of the
resources in the best alternative use.
3. ECONOMIC COSTS
Economic costs are the payments a
firm must make, or incomes it must
provide to resource suppliers to attract
those resources away from their best
alternative production opportunities.
Payments can be explicit or implicit.
4. ECONOMIC COSTS
A. Explicit costs are payments to resource
owners for resources they supply.
B. Implicit costs are the money payments for
the self-employed resources could have
earned in their best alternative
employments (forgone interest, forgone
rent, forgone wages, forgone
entrepreneurial income, etc.)
5. ECONOMIC COSTS
C. Normal profits are considered an implicit cost
because they are the minimum payment
entrepreneurs must receive for performing the
entrepreneurial functions for a firm.
D. Economic or pure profits are total revenue less
all costs (explicit and implicit) including a
normal profit. (The firm’s accounting profit is
the total revenue less only its explicit, or
accounting, costs)
6. ECONOMIC COSTS
A distinction is made between the
short run and the long run.
A firm’s economic costs vary as the
firm’s output changes, these costs
depend on whether the firm is able to
make short-run or long-run changes in
its resource use.
7. ECONOMIC COSTS
E. The short run is the time period that is too brief for
a firm to alter its plant capacity. The plant size is
fixed in the short run. Short-run costs, then are the
wages, raw materials, etc. used for production in a
fixed plant.
F. The long run is a period of time long enough for a
firm to change the quantities of all resources
employed, including the plant size. Long-run costs
are all costs, including the cost of varying the size of
the production plant.
8. SHORT-RUN PRODUCTION
RELATIONSHIPS
A. Short-run production reflects the law of
diminishing returns that states that “as
successive units of a variable resource
are added to a fixed resource, beyond
some points the product attributable to
each additional resource unit will
decline”.
B. There are short-run relationships
between inputs and outputs in the
production process.
9. SHORT-RUN PRODUCTION
RELATIONSHIPS
1. Look in your textbook, page 396, at Table 22.1.
2. Total product (TP) is the total quantity, or total
output, of a particular good produced.
3. Marginal product (MP) is the change in total
output resulting from each additional input of
labor (the change made in total output from a
change in a variable resource input)
4. Average product (AP), productivity, is the total
product divided by the total number of workers
(the total product per unit of resource input)
10. SHORT-RUN PRODUCTION
RELATIONSHIPS
5. Now look at Figure 22.2 in your textbook,
on page 397. This illustrates the law of
diminishing returns graphically and shows
the relationship between marginal,
average, and total product concepts.
11. SHORT-RUN PRODUCTION
RELATIONSHIPS
The law of diminishing returns determines the
manner in which the costs of a firm change as it
changes its output in the short run.
As more units of a variable resource are added to a
fixed resource beyond some point, the marginal
product from each additional unit of a variable
resource will decline.
There are 3 phases reflected in a graph of the total-
product and the marginal-product curves:
increasing, decreasing, and negative marginal
returns.
12. SHORT-RUN PRODUCTION
RELATIONSHIPS
1. When marginal product begins to diminish, the
rate of increase in total product stops
accelerating and grows at a diminishing rate.
2. The average product declines at the point at
which the marginal product slips below average
product.
3. Total product declines when the marginal
product becomes negative.
13. SHORT-RUN PRODUCTION
RELATIONSHIPS
The law of diminishing returns assumes all units of
variable inputs- workers in this case- are of equal quality.
Marginal product diminishes not because successive
workers are inferior, but because more workers are being
used relative to the amount of plant and equipment
available.
*Now, do the Quick Quiz 22.2 in your notebook and self-
grade it. How did you do?
*Turn to page 411 and do Key Questions 2 and 4.
14. SHORT RUN PRODUCTION COSTS
a. Fixed, variable, and total costs are the short-run
classification of costs.
1. Total fixed costs are those whose total does not vary
with changes in short-run output.
2. Total variable costs are those costs which change
with the level of output. They include payment for
materials, fuel, power, transportation services, most
labor, and similar costs.
3. Total cost is the sum of total fixed and total variable
costs at each level of output.
15. SHORT RUN PRODUCTION COSTS
B. Per unit or average costs
1. Average fixed cost is the total fixed cost divided by
the level of output (AFC = TFC/Q). It will decline as
output rises.
2. Average variable cost is the total variable cost
divided by the level of output (AVC = TVC/Q)
3. Average total cost is the total cost divided by the
level of output (ATC = TC/Q), sometimes it is called
unit cost or per unit cost.
*Note that ATC also equals AFC + AVC
16. SHORT RUN PRODUCTION COSTS
C. Marginal cost is the additional cost of producing one
more unit of output:
MC = change in TC/change in Q
1. Marginal cost can also be calculated as:
MC = TVC/change in Q
2. Marginal decisions are very important in
determining profit levels. Marginal revenue and
marginal cost are compared.
17. SHORT RUN PRODUCTION COSTS
3. Marginal cost is a reflection of marginal product and
diminishing returns. When diminishing returns
begins, the marginal cost will begin its rise.
4. The marginal cost is related to AVC and ATC. These
average costs will fall as long as the marginal cost is
less than either average cost. As soon as the marginal
cost rises above the average, the average will begin to
rise.
18. SHORT RUN PRODUCTION COSTS
* Example: Think of your grade-point averages with the
total GPA reflecting your performance over your years
in school, and your marginal grade points as your
performance this trimester. If your overall GPA is a
3.0, and this trimester you earn a 4.0, your overall
average will rise, but not as high as the marginal rate
from this trimester. Does this make sense?
D. Cost curves will shift if the resource prices change or
if technology or efficiency change.
19. LONG RUN PRODUCTION COSTS
• In the long-run, all production costs are variable, i.e.,
long-run costs reflect changes in plant size and
industry size can be changed (expand or contract).
• The long-run ATC curve shows the least per unit cost
at which any output can be produced after the firm has
had time to make all appropriate adjustments in its
plant size.
20. LONG RUN PRODUCTION COSTS
Economies or diseconomies of scale exist in the long run.
1. Economies of scale or economies of mass production
explain the downward sloping part of the long-run ATC
curve, i.e. as plant size increases, long-run ATC decrease.
a. Labor and managerial specialization is one reason for
this.
b. Ability to purchase and use more efficient capital
goods also may explain economies of scale.
c. Other factors may also be involved, such as design,
development, or other “start up” costs such as
advertising and “learning by doing.”
21. LONG RUN PRODUCTION COSTS
2. Diseconomies of scale may occur if a firm
becomes too large as illustrated by the rising part
of the long run ATC curve. For example, if a 10
percent increase in all resources result in a 5
percent increase in output, ATC will increase.
Some reasons for this include distant
management, worker alienation, and problems
with communication and coordination.
3. Constant returns to scale will occur when ATC is
constant over a variety of plant sizes.
22. LONG RUN PRODUCTION COSTS
D. Both economies of scale and diseconomies of
scale can be demonstrated in the real world. Larger
corporations at first may successful in lowering costs
and realizing economies of scale. To keep from
experiencing diseconomies of scale, they may
decentralize decision making by utilizing smaller
production units.
23. APPLICATIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Recently there have been a number of start-up firms that
have been able to take advantage of economies of scale by
spreading product development costs and advertising
costs over larger and larger units of output and by using
greater specialization of labor, management, and capital.
2. In 1996 Verson (a firm located in Chicago) introduced a
stamping machine the size of a house weighing as much
as 12 locomotives. This $30 million machine enables
automakers to produce in 5 minutes what used to take 8
hours to produce.
24. APPLICATIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
3. Newspapers can be produced for a low cost and thus sold
for a low price because publishers are able to spread the
cost of the printing equipment over an extremely large
number of units each day.
4. General Motors became so gigantic that many of its cost
problems were blamed on diseconomies of scale. To
offset this problem, the corporation has given its five
divisions (Chevrolet, Buick, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, and
Cadillac) more autonomy.
25. MINIMUM EFFICIENCY SCALE
The concept of minimum efficient scale defines the smallest
level of output at which a firm can minimize its average costs
in the long run.
1. The firms in some industries realize this at a small plant
size: apparel, food processing, furniture, wood products,
snowboarding, and small-appliance industries are
examples.
26. MINIMUM EFFICIENCY SCALE
2. In other industries, in order to take full advantage of
economies of scale, firms must produce with very large
facilities that allow the firms to spread costs over an
extended range of output. Examples would be:
automobiles, aluminum, steel, and other heavy
industries. This pattern also is found in several new
information technology industries.
3. The Last Word discusses the fact that many industries
have firms that are bigger than their estimated minimum
efficient scale. Reasons for this may have to do with
government policies, geographic location, mergers, and
managerial ability rather than average costs.
27. IRRELEVANCY OF SUNK COSTS
Sunk costs should be disregarded in decision making.
1. The old saying “Don’t cry over spilt milk” sends the
message that if there is nothing you can do about it,
forget about it.
2. A sunken ship on the ocean floor is lost, it cannot be
recovered. It is what economists’ call a “sunk cost.”
2. Economic analysis says that you should not take actions
for which marginal cost exceeds marginal benefit.
3. Suppose you have purchased an expensive ticket to a
football game and you are sick the day of the game; the
price of the ticket should not affect your decision to
attend.
28. IRRELEVANCY OF SUNK COSTS
In making a new decision, you should ignore all costs that are
not affected by the decision.
1. A prior bad decision should not dictate a second decision
for which the marginal benefit is less than marginal cost.
2. Suppose a firm spends a million dollars on R&D only to
discover that the product sells very poorly. The loss
cannot be recovered by losing still more money in
continued production.
3. If a cost has been incurred and cannot be partly or fully
recouped by some other choice, a rational consumer or
firm should ignore it.
4. Sunk costs are irrelevant! Don’t cry over spilt milk!