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- While in the short run firms are limited to operating on a single average cost curve (corresponding to the level of fixed costs they have chosen), in the long run when all costs are variable, they can choose to operate on any average cost curve.
While in the short run firms are limited to operating on a single average cost curve (corresponding to the level of fixed costs they have chosen), in the long run when all costs are variable, they can choose to operate on any average cost curve.
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A production process in which the average cost curve is sufficiently downward-sloping, even in the long run, that a single firm can supply the whole market at lower average cost than two firms, making it impossible to sustain competition.
While in the short run firms are limited to operating on a single average cost curve (corresponding to the level of fixed costs they have chosen), in the long run when all costs are variable, they can choose to operate on any average cost curve.
While in the short run firms are limited to operating on a single average cost curve (corresponding to the level of fixed costs they have chosen), in the long run when all costs are variable, they can choose to operate on any average cost curve.
- Emma Hutchinson, Emma
- 2017
Define the long-run average cost curve and explain how it relates to economies and diseconomies or scale. In a long-run planning perspective, a firm can consider changing the quantities of all its factors of production. That gives the firm opportunities it does not have in the short run.
While in the short run firms are limited to operating on a single average cost curve (corresponding to the level of fixed costs they have chosen), in the long run when all costs are variable, they can choose to operate on any average cost curve.
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In a natural monopoly, a single firm is able to most efficiently serve the entire market due to high fixed costs and low marginal costs, leading to economies of scale. As a result, the firm's average cost curve is typically declining, meaning that the average cost of production decreases as output increases.