Production Schedule
Production Table Increasing Returns to Scale: more than \proportional increase in output relative To increase in inputs. 200% higher output=(30-10)/10 100% higher inputs (2-1)/1
Production Table for a Linear Production Function Equation: Patients served = 5*Doctors + 5* Nurses
Production Table for a Linear Production Function Equation: Patients served = 5*Doctors + 5* Nurses Isoquant: how get job done: tell me the ways!
Cost Table ($200 per nurse, $600 per doctor) Equation: Patients served = 5*Doctors + 5* Nurses
Cost Effective Choice (least cost) for isoquant of 15 patients Equation: Patients served = 5*Doctors + 5* Nurses
Cost Effective Choices for all isoquants Equation: Patients served = 5*Doctors + 5* Nurses
Cost schedule OUTPUTVariable CostAverage Variable Cost Marginal Cost =200/5= =400/10=40=( )=
Production Table for a Min() Production Function Equation: Patients served = 10*Min(Doctors, Nurses)
Production Table for a Multiplicative Function Equation: Patients served = 5*Doctors* Nurses
Nurses Patients/Nurse with 2 doctors with 1 doctor Marginal Productivity of Nurses
Nurses with 2 doctors with 1 doctor MARGINAL PRODUCT CURVES TOTAL PRODUCT CURVES with 2 doctors with 1 doctor Patients/Day Nurses Patients/nurse
SATELLITE SHORT RUN COSTS Voice Total ATC AVC MC Chan- Cost ($/Vch)($/VCh)($/VCh) nels ($/mo.) 0 30,000* , , , , , *FIXED COST: Cost at ZERO output
SATELLITE SHORT RUN COST MC ATC $/VOICE CHANNEL VOICE CHANNELS AVC Shut down price
COMPETING TELECOMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES: LONG RUN ATC Voice Satel- Micro- Copper Fiber Exit Long- chan- lite wave Cable Optic run ATC nels ($/VCh)($/VCh)($/VCh)($/VCh)($/Vch)($/VCh
TELECOMMUNICATION AVERAGE COST COPPER FIBER OPTIC MICRO- WAVE SATELLITE
TELECOMMUNICATION AVERAGE COST Copper Fiber Optic Microwave Satellite LONG RUN AVERAGE COST
SOURCES OF ECONOMIES OF SCALE * SPECIALIZATION AND DIVISION OF LABOR * INDIVISIBILITIES * DIMENSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS * MARKET SIZE AND NETWORK EXTERNALITIES * MULTIPLANT ECONOMIES * INCREASING RETURNS EXISTS
SOURCES OF DISECONOMIES OF SCALE * PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS * MANAGERIAL CONTROL LOSS * COSTS OF CENTRALIZATION * INCREASING RETURNS EXISTS NOWHERE
CHAPTER 10: COPIER PRODUCTION copiers Short run Average Costs: Long Run month Plant #1 Plant #2 Plant #3 Plant #4 Av. Cost * 6500* * **
copiers Short run Average Costs: Long Run month Plant #1 Plant #2 Plant #3 Plant #4 Av. Cost Minimum of Short Run Average Cost * 6500* * ** EFFICIENT UTILIZATION (Short Run)
copiers Short run Average Costs: Long Run month Plant #1 Plant #2 Plant #3 Plant #4 Av. Cost Minimum of Long Run Average Cost * 6500* * ** MOST EFFICIENT INVESTMENT(LR)
copiers Short run Average Costs: Long Run month Plant #1 Plant #2 Plant #3 Plant #4 Av. Cost Lowest AC at each output level * 6500* * ** TECHNICALLY EFFICIENT CHOICES
copiers Short run Average Costs: Long Run month Plant #1 Plant #2 Plant #3 Plant #4 Av. Cost Minimum of Long Run Average Cost * 6500* * ** MOST EFFICIENT INVESTMENT(LR)
Copiers per month Price ($/copier) 4 COPIER PRODUCING PLANTS LRAC #4 #3 #2 #1
Copiers per month Price ($/copier) #4 #3 #2 #1 ENVELOPE OF TECHNICALLY EFFICIENT POINTS TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY LOWEST AC AT EACH OUTPUT
Copiers per month Price ($/copier) #4 #3 #2 #1 CAPACITY UTILIZATION EFFICIENT SHORT RUN EFFICIENCY MINIMUM OF EACH SHORT RUN AVERAGE COST CURVE