Long Run Supply Curve

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  Studies in Economics and Political Science

  13 Volume Set

  • Various(Author)
  • 2022(Publication Date)
  • Taylor & Francis

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  The long-run supply curve of the firm is given, input prices being fixed, by the long-run marginal cost curve above the minimum point of the long-run average cost curve. The industry supply curve is obtained by the addition of the supply curves of individual firms. The long run and the short run do not exist in isolation of one an- other. The short-run curves illustrated in the diagrams may be thought of as a snapshot of the firm's situation. In the long run the firm has the opportunity to change the short-run picture. In Figures 4.4 and 4.5, one set of short-run curves is drawn. There will be other sets of curves tangential to the long-run average cost curve. Thus the long-run average cost curve may be envisaged as an envelope curve to the short-run curves, as was explained in Chapter 3. In the long run, in perfect competition, firms construct plants of optimum scale and operate them at optimum rates of output - where both mini- mum short- and long-run average costs are equal. The relationship between returns to scale, the shape of the long- run average cost curve and of the supply curve is important. Both the short- and long-run average cost curves have been U-shaped - although the reasons for this shape are not the same in both cases. Money Scale m H w o so H; o > w OS Figure 4.4 66 SUPPLY IN A MARKET ECONOMY In the long run the shape is determined by the presence of increas- ing and decreasing returns to scale in the production function (or internal economies of scale). If increasing returns to scale were pre- valent at all rates of output, the end result would be monopoly, as there would be no reason for the firm to stop expanding. Continu- ously decreasing returns to scale would imply that the optimum out- put was zero. Constant returns to scale would produce horizontal cost curves and - placed in juxtaposition with the horizontal demand curve of the competitive market - would result in indeterminancy.

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  Key Notes on Agricultural Economics, Business Management and Statistics

  • Patil, J. V(Authors)
  • 2021(Publication Date)
  • Daya Publishing House

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  In very short run it is demand which determine price and in long run it is supply which determines prices. Thus, the factors which determine prices both demand and supply are important only their influence varies over different time periods. Of Reproducible goods (nonperishable) The goods can be preserved or kept back from market and carried over to next market period. The supply curve can not be straight line. If the price is very high the seller will prepared to sell the whole stock and at very low price level, seller would not sell any amount and wait for better price in another market/market period, i.e., Reserve price : The price below which a seller will refuse to sell is called the reserve price (RP). The reserve price will depend on several factors. Expectations regarding the future price - Higher RP in future Liquidity preference - more urgent need for cash lower RP Charges to for carrying stock-longer period/high charges lower will RP Future cost - If the costs are expected to fall RP will be lower. Durability of goods - the greater the durability higher is the RP. Too much importance attached to cost incurred in past and fix higher RP. Given two extreme price levels. 1. The seller prepared to sell whole stock. 2. He will refuse to sell any the amount which he will offer for sale will vary with price. The supply curve of seller will slope upwards to right. In short run, firm is in equilibrium at price equals marginal cost because fixed costs are disregarded in making decision to produce. It is average variable cost that determine to produce or not. If the price falls below AVC firm will shut down to minimize losses. Short run supply curve of industry is the lateral summation of short run marginal cost curve (MCC) of the firms. The supply curve of the industry lies above minimum AVC and it slopes upward from left to right since MCC slopes upward.

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  Microeconomics

  A Contemporary Introduction

  • William A. McEachern(Author)
  • 2016(Publication Date)
  • Cengage Learning EMEA

    (Publisher)

  Exhibit 9 shows a representative firm and the market in long-run equi-librium. Market supply adjusts as firms enter or leave or change their size. This long-run adjustment continues until the market supply curve intersects the market demand curve at a price that corresponds to the lowest point on each firm’s long-run average cost curve, or LRAC curve. Because the long run is a period during which all resources under a firm’s control are variable, a firm in the long run is forced by competition to adjust its scale until average cost is minimized. A firm that fails to minimize average cost will not survive in the long run. At point e in panel (a) of Exhibit 9, the firm is in equilibrium, producing q units per period and earning just a normal profit. At point e , price, marginal cost, short-run average Copyright 2017 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. 180 Part 3 Market Structure and Pricing total cost, and long-run average cost are all equal. No firm in the market has any reason to change its output, and no outside firm has any incentive to enter this industry, because firms in this market are earning normal, but not economic, profit. In other words, all resources employed in this industry earn their opportunity costs. No resource employed in this indus-try can earn more elsewhere. 8-5b Long-Run Adjustment to a Change of Demand To explore the long-run adjustment process, let’s consider how a firm and an industry respond to an increase in market demand.

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  Microeconomics

  Theory and Applications

  • Edgar K. Browning, Mark A. Zupan(Authors)
  • 2019(Publication Date)
  • Wiley

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  It generally slopes upward, indicating that a higher price will result in increased output. 3 In Chapter 9, however, we will see that supply curves for some products may be horizontal. Upward-sloping supply curves, however, are thought to be the most common shape, and we draw them this way here. 20 Chapter Two • Supply and Demand • Like the demand curve, the supply curve pertains to a particular period of time. In addition, different points on the supply curve refer to alternative possibilities for the same period of time. Finally, the number of firms producing the good may vary along the supply curve. At low prices some firms may halt production and leave the industry; at high prices new firms may enter the industry. Shifts in versus Movements along a Supply Curve The supply curve shows the influence of price on quantity supplied when other factors that also influence output are held constant. When any of the other factors change, the entire supply curve shifts. Beyond a good’s own price, two determinants of quantity supplied deserve special emphasis. First is the state of technological knowledge concerning the various ways a good can be manufactured. Second are the conditions of supply of inputs, like labor and energy, that are used to produce the good. Supply conditions for inputs relate to the prices that must be paid for their use. Other factors may be important in particular cases—for example, government in the case of health care, weather in the case of agriculture, and an organiza- tion’s goals in the case of nonprofit institutions like the Red Cross—but technology and input supply conditions influence all output markets. In drawing a supply curve, we assume that factors such as technological knowledge and input supply conditions do not vary along the curve. The supply curve shows how variation in price alone affects output. If technology or input supply conditions do change, the supply curve shifts.

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  Economic Theory and the Construction Industry

  • P. Hillebrandt(Author)
  • 2000(Publication Date)
  • Palgrave Macmillan

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  The short-run supply curve of the market will also be rising and will, as in the case of the individual firms, be considerably steeper than the long-run supply curve. 132 The Supply of Construction 12 Equilibrium in Various Market Situations It was shown at the beginning of Chapter 10 how the costs of the individual large contract, obtained at a single point in time but with work spread over a long period, are relevant to the usual cost curves of economic analysis which represent the answer to the question: If the output of the firm were higher or lower than a given level, what would be the effect on costs? The remainder of the chapter was devoted to a detailed consideration of this question. By an analysis almost identical to that for costs, the revenue obtained from individual projects may be transformed into revenue over time, and then consideration be given to the likely difference in revenue at a point in time if the output had been larger or smaller than a given level. This is the demand curve of the firm. It is dependent, on the one hand, on the demand curve of the indus- try or market under consideration and, on the other hand, on the position of the individual firm in the market in question. The first was discussed in the demand section of this book, in Chapters 4–8. The second requires a preliminary general investigation of the vari- ous theoretical types of market situation, because the demand curve of the individual firm in some conditions, notably oligopoly and discriminating monopoly, cannot be understood without reference to the analysis of both demand and supply. This is the subject of the present chapter. In Chapter 13 consideration is given to the place of the construction firm in various markets on the theoretical range from perfect competition to monopoly.

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  Economics

  A Contemporary Introduction

  • William A. McEachern(Author)
  • 2016(Publication Date)
  • Cengage Learning EMEA

    (Publisher)

  The long-run aggregate supply curve depends on the supply of resources in the economy, the level of technology and know-how, and the production incentives provided by the formal and informal institutions of the economic system. In Exhibit 4, the initial price level of 110 is determined by the intersection of AD with the long-run aggregate supply curve. If the aggregate demand curve shifts out to AD, then in the long run, the equilibrium price level increases to 120 but equilibrium output remains at $17.0 trillion, the economy’s potential GDP. Conversely, a decline in aggre- gate demand from AD to AD0, in the long run, leads only to a fall in the price level from long-run aggregate supply (LRAS) curve A vertical line at the economy’s potential output; aggregate supply when there are no surprises about the price level and all resource contracts can be renegotiated expected price level of 100. Because the expected price level and the actual price level are now identical, the economy is in long-run equilibrium at point e. Although the nominal wage is lower at point e than that originally agreed to when the expected price level was 110, the real wage is the same at point e as it was at point a. Because the real wage is the same, the amount of labor that workers supply is the same and real output is the same. All that has changed between points a and e are nominal measures—the price level, the nominal wage, and other nominal resource prices. We conclude that when incorrect expectations cause firms and resource suppliers to overestimate the actual price level, output in the short run falls short of the economy’s potential. As long as wages and prices are flexible enough, however, firms and workers should be able to renegotiate wage agreements based on a lower expected price level. The negotiated drop in the nominal wage shifts the short-run aggregate supply curve to the right until the economy once again produces its potential output.

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  Competition and Entrepreneurship

  • Israel M. Kirzner(Author)
  • 2015(Publication Date)
  • University of Chicago Press

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  And economists have indeed frequently used the term in this sense. It will not be forgotten that in the long run, Keynes assured us, we are all dead. More important is that by the long-run consequences of a given policy or decision or event one means, in this usage, the consequences as they unfold over an unlimited time span. Short-run consequences, by contrast, refer to those consequences which reveal themselves within a relatively short period after the relevant decision or event. 1 It is according to this terminology, for example, that Stigler distinguishes between a short-run demand curve and a long-run demand curve, with the latter reflecting the responses to alternative prices, given all the time needed for full adjustment to these different prices. 2 For Marshall the meaning of the doctrine that “the normal. .. value of a commodity is that which economic forces tend to bring about in the long run” is that this is “the average value which economic forces would bring about if the general conditions of life were stationary for a run of time long enough to enable them all to work out their full effect.” 3 2. Closely connected with the preceding use of the term is the widespread distinction between long-run profits and short-run profits. Long-run profits are those calculated by an entrepreneur with a very long horizon, taking into account the full profile of receipt and outlay flows throughout this long prospective period. Short-run profits are those computed prospectively by ignoring all receipts and outlays that are anticipated only after some relatively far-off future date

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  21st Century Economics: A Reference Handbook

  • Rhona C. Free(Author)
  • 2010(Publication Date)
  • SAGE Publications, Inc

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  Likewise, sellers who are able but unwilling are also not considered to be part of market supply. Quantity supplied is defined to be the amount of a prod-uct that sellers are both willing and able to provide to the market at a specific price. The difference in these two concepts is similar to the difference between demand and quantity demanded. That is, supply refers to the entire supply relationship, while quantity supplied refers to a single price and quantity combination. Once these two concepts are understood, it becomes possible to state the law of supply. According to the law of sup-ply, as price increases, sellers increase the quantity that they are willing and able to provide to the market. If price decreases, sellers decrease the quantity that they are willing and able to provide to the market. The lines labeled 5, and S 2 in Figure 7.2 are referred to as supply curves. The lines are drawn here as linear functions to enhance the simplicity of the graph, but these lines could also be drawn as curved lines that are convex to the origin. A change in supply is illustrated by a shift in the loca-tion of the entire curve. In Figure 7.2, supply is said to increase if supply changes from S, to S 2 . An increase in supply means that sellers are willing and able to sell more at every price. For example, the movement from point Ε to G represents an increase in supply because at point E, sell-ers are willing to sell Q but Q 4 at point G. This increase v in willingness to sell occurs even though the price remains unchanged at P A decrease in supply means the sellers are v willing and able to sell less at every price and is illustrated by a shift in demand from S 2 to 5,. A change in quantity supplied is illustrated by a move along the curve. In Figure 7.2, an increase in quantity supplied is illustrated by a move-ment from point F to G.

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