Marginal cost is
No it does not. Only Perfectly Competitive firms have a horizontal Marginal Cost curve, which is also there demand curve.
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At this intersection point on a graph, firms will earn maximum profit, even if this point is under average total cost.
When Marginal Cost is below Marginal Revenue, profit is increasing. When Marginal Cost is above Marginal Revenue, profit is decreasing. Since the goal of firms is to maximise profit, they should produce at a level where the MR of producing another unit is equal to the Marginal Cost of producing another unit. Firms should keep producing until this point because there is a hidden profit in MC. This is because we are not taking into account the Accounting profit.
a perfectly competitive firms supply curve will be the portion of the marginal cost curve which lies above the average variable cost curve (AVC)..this will be due to the firms unwillingness to supply below the price in which they could cover their variable costs
Marginal cost is
No it does not. Only Perfectly Competitive firms have a horizontal Marginal Cost curve, which is also there demand curve.
Bbg
At this intersection point on a graph, firms will earn maximum profit, even if this point is under average total cost.
At this intersection point on a graph, firms will earn maximum profit, even if this point is under average total cost.
When Marginal Cost is below Marginal Revenue, profit is increasing. When Marginal Cost is above Marginal Revenue, profit is decreasing. Since the goal of firms is to maximise profit, they should produce at a level where the MR of producing another unit is equal to the Marginal Cost of producing another unit. Firms should keep producing until this point because there is a hidden profit in MC. This is because we are not taking into account the Accounting profit.
a perfectly competitive firms supply curve will be the portion of the marginal cost curve which lies above the average variable cost curve (AVC)..this will be due to the firms unwillingness to supply below the price in which they could cover their variable costs
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Marginal Cost will keep increasing (have upward slope) because of the principle of diminishing marginal returns. The MC curve above the its intersection with AVC is the Supply Curve *because below minimum AVC, the firms stops production)
Perfect competition is efficient in the long run because price _____ marginal cost and firms are producing at minimum _____.
In a perfectly competitive market, all n firms are equal. Thus, the market total cost is the total cost (TC) of one firm multiplied by the amount of n firms in the market Total Market Cost = n(TC) Total cost relates to output because firms want to make a profit. Profit = TR - TC where TR = total cost and TR = total revenue. Firms produce at the quantity which MR (marginal revenue) = MC (marginal cost). At this quantity, multiply it by n number of firms in the market to achieve the total output in a market.
Because monopolistically competitive firms have an optimal production allocation at monopoly values: marginal revenue = marginal cost, marking-up to the demand function. When competition is not perfect, marginal revenue does not equal demand but is always below it on a Cartesian plane, so the optimal production value of a monopolistically competitive firm is both less and at a higher price than a perfectly competitive one.