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DECREASING MARGINAL RETURNS: In the short-run production of a firm, an increase in the variable input results in a decrease in the marginal product of the variable input. Decreasing marginal returns typically surface after the first few quantities of a variable input are added to a fixed input. Compare this with increasing marginal returns. You should also compare this with diseconomies of scale associated with long-run production.
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Lesson 8: Market Shocks | Unit 3: Single Shifts
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- The four basic changes in the market caused by increases or decrease in demand or supply.
- The six steps sequence to analyze any market shock: (1) a determinant changes, (2) a curve to shifts, (3) a shortage or a surplus occurs, (4) the price changes, (5) the quantities demanded and supplied change, and (6) the market imbalance is eliminated and equilibrium is restored.
- That an increase in demand causes an increase quantity and an increase in price.
- That a decrease in demand causes a decrease quantity and a decrease in price.
- That an increase in supply causes an increase quantity and a decrease in price.
- That a decrease in supply causes a decrease quantity and an increase in price.
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PRICE An asset or item voluntarily exchanged in a market transaction for another asset or item. This item or asset is usually, but not necessarily, money. A barter transaction occurs if money is NOT one of the assets or items exchanged. In a standard market diagram, price is displayed on the vertical axis.
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ACCR
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