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Why does the marginal cost curve correspond to the supply curve?
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A perfectly competitive firm's supply curve is that portion of its' marginal cost curve that lies above the minimum of the average variable cost curve. A perfectly competitive firm maximizes profit by producing the quantity of output that equates price and marginal cost. As such, the firm moves along it's marginal cost curve in response to alternative prices. Because the marginal cost curve is positively sloped due to the law of diminishing marginal returns, the firm's supply curve is also positively sloped.
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The supply curve of a monopoly is its marginal cost curve true or false?
Flase, The suuply curve of a "perfect competition" is its marginal cost curve
Why supply curve of a monopoly equals to its marginal cost curve?
It's not
How is a perfectly competitive firms marginal cost curve related to its supply curve?
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
A firm's marginal cost curve above the average variable cost curve is also?
A firm's short run supply curve
Relationship between marginal cost and the supply curve for a purely competitive firm?
Marginal cost curve above the average variable cost curve, is the same as the short run supply curve. In perfect competition, MC=Price. It follows that production will be at that point. Hence the supply curve is the same as that part of the MC curve which is above AVC, where the firm can cover its variable cost....this is better than shutting down.
The supply curve of a monopoly is its marginal cost curve true or false?
Flase, The suuply curve of a "perfect competition" is its marginal cost curve
Why supply curve of a monopoly equals to its marginal cost curve?
It's not
How is a perfectly competitive firms marginal cost curve related to its supply curve?
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
A firm's marginal cost curve above the average variable cost curve is also?
A firm's short run supply curve
What is a firm's short run supply curve?
A perfectly competitive firm's supply curve is that portion of its marginal cost curve that lies above the minimum of the average variable cost curve.
Relationship between marginal cost and the supply curve for a purely competitive firm?
Marginal cost curve above the average variable cost curve, is the same as the short run supply curve. In perfect competition, MC=Price. It follows that production will be at that point. Hence the supply curve is the same as that part of the MC curve which is above AVC, where the firm can cover its variable cost....this is better than shutting down.
What relationship is shown by a supply curve?
What is shown by a supply curve, is the marginal cost of the company that you are considering, from the point it crosses the average costs function.
6 If the average total cost curve is falling what is necessarily true of the marginal cost curve If the average total cost curve is rising what is necessarily true of the marginal cost curve?
When average total cost curve is falling it is necessarily above the marginal cost curve. If the average total cost curve is rising, it is necessarily below the marginal cost curve.
What happens to marginal cost after the point where it equals average variable cost?
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)
A purely competitive firm's short-run supply curve is?
Because of the price taking nature of the firm in the perfectly competitive market. The supply curve would be the portin of the (Marginal Cost Curve) that disects the (P=Ar=Mr curves). Som from that point up would be the supply curve, to produce below that point would not be beneficial to the establishment. Up sloping and equal to the portion of the marginal cost curve that lies above the average variable cost. The demand curve is also perfectly elastic, this too contributes to the fact.
What happens when the slope of the total revenue curve is equal to the slope of the total cost curve?
a. monopoly profit is maximized. b. marginal revenue equals marginal cost. c. the marginal cost curve intersects the total average cost curve. d. the total cost curve is at its minimum. e. Both A and B
Does monopolistically competitive firms have horizontal marginal cost curve?
No it does not. Only Perfectly Competitive firms have a horizontal Marginal Cost curve, which is also there demand curve.
