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INCREASING-COST INDUSTRY: A perfectly competitive industry with a positively-sloped long-run industry supply curve that results because expansion of the industry causes higher production cost and resource prices. For an increasing-cost industry the entry of new firms, prompted by an increase in demand, causes the long-run average supply curve of each firm to shift upward, which increases the minimum efficient scale of production.
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Lesson 11: Circular Flow | Unit 1: Basic Flow
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The three aggregated markets in the circular flow are:- Product markets: The combination of all markets in the economy that exchange final goods and services. These markets are the mechanism that exchanges gross domestic product. These are also termed the aggregate market.
- Factor markets: These markets exchange the services of the economy's resources, or factor of production--labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurship. These are also called resource markets.
- Financial markets: These are markets that trade financial instruments, like stocks and bonds. They play an important role in capital investment.
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COMPLEMENT-IN-CONSUMPTION One of two (or more) goods that provide satisfaction of a want or need when consumed together. A complement-in-consumption is one of two alternatives falling within the other prices determinant of demand. The other is a substitute-in-consumption. An increase in the price of one complement good causes a decrease in demand for the other. A complement-in-consumption has a negative cross elasticity of demand.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a going out of business sale looking to buy either a T-shirt commemorating the 2000 Olympics or a genuine fake plastic Tiffany lamp. Be on the lookout for mail order catalogs with hidden messages.
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Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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"The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little. " -- William Jennings Bryan
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BIS
Bank for International Settlements
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