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Behind the Supply Curve: CHAPTER 8 Behind the Supply Curve: Inputs and Costs <Review Slides> PowerPoint® Slides by Can Erbil © 2004 Worth Publishers, all rights reserved

What you will learn in this chapter: The relationship between quantity of inputs and quantity of output Why production is often subject to diminishing returns to inputs What the various forms of a firm’s costs are and how they generate the firm’s marginal and average cost curves Why a firm’s costs may differ in the short run versus the long run How the firm’s technology of production can generate economies of scale

The Production Function A production function is the relationship between the quantity of inputs a firm uses and the quantity of output it produces. A fixed input is an input whose quantity is fixed and cannot be varied. A variable input is an input whose quantity the firm can vary.

Inputs and Output The long run is the time period in which all inputs can be varied. The short run is the time period in which at least one input is fixed. The total product curve shows how the quantity of output depends on the quantity of the variable input, for a given quantity of the fixed input.

Production Function and TP Curve for George and Martha’s Farm

Marginal Product of Labor The marginal product of an input is the additional quantity of output that is produced by using one more unit of that input.

Diminishing Returns to an Input There are diminishing returns to an input when an increase in the quantity of that input, holding the levels of all other inputs fixed, leads to a decline in the marginal product of that input. The following marginal product of labor curve illustrates this concept clearly…

Marginal Product of Labor Curve

Total Product, Marginal Product, and the Fixed Input

Total Cost Curve for George and Martha’s Farm

From the Production Function to Cost Curves A fixed cost is a cost that does not depend on the quantity of output produced. It is the cost of the fixed input. A variable cost is a cost that depends on the quantity of output produced. It is the cost of the variable input.

Total Cost Curve The total cost of producing a given quantity of output is the sum of the fixed cost and the variable cost of producing that quantity of output. TC=FC + VC The total cost curve becomes steeper as more output is produced due to diminishing returns.

Definition of Marginal Cost

Total Cost and Marginal Cost Curves for Ben’s Boots

Average Cost Average total cost, often referred to simply as average cost, is total cost divided by quantity of output produced. ATC = TC/Q Average fixed cost is the fixed cost per unit of output. AFC = FC/Q Average variable cost is the variable cost per unit of output. AVC = VC/Q

Average Total Cost Curve for Ben’s Boots The average total cost curve at Ben’s Boots is U-shaped. At low levels of output, average total cost falls because the “spreading effect” of falling average fixed cost dominates the “diminishing returns effect” of rising average variable cost. At higher levels of output, the opposite is true and average total cost rises.

Putting the four curves together: Marginal Cost and Average Cost Curves for Ben’s Boots

General principles that are always true about a firm’s marginal and average total cost curves: At the minimum-cost output, average total cost is equal to marginal cost. At output less than the minimum-cost output, marginal cost is less than average total cost and average total cost is falling. And at output greater than the minimum-cost output, marginal cost is greater than average total cost and average total cost is rising.

The Relationship Between the Average Total Cost and the Marginal Cost Curves

More Realistic Cost Curves Marginal cost curves do not always slope upward. The benefits of specialization of labor can lead to increasing returns at first represented by a downward-sloping marginal cost curve. Once there are enough workers to permit specialization, however, diminishing returns set in.

Short-Run versus Long-Run Costs In the short-run, fixed cost is completely outside the control of a firm. But all inputs are variable in the long-run: fixed cost may also be varied. In the long run a firm’s fixed cost becomes a variable it can choose.

Choosing the Level of Fixed Cost for Ben’s Boots There is a trade-off between higher fixed cost and lower variable cost for any given output level, and vice versa. But as output goes up, average total cost is lower with the higher amount of fixed cost.

The Long-Run Average Total Cost Curve The long-run average total cost curve shows the relationship between output and average total cost when fixed cost has been chosen to minimize average total cost for each level of output.

Short-Run and Long-Run Average Total Cost Curves

Economies and Diseconomies of Scale There are economies of scale when long-run average total cost declines as output increases. There are diseconomies of scale when long-run average total cost increases as output increases. There are constant returns to scale when long-run average total cost is constant as output increases.

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