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MARGINAL PRODUCT CURVE: A curve that graphically illustrates the relation between marginal product and the quantity of the variable input, holding all other inputs fixed. This curve indicates the incremental change in output at each level of the variable input. The marginal product curve is one of three related curves used in the analysis of the short-run production of a firm. The other two are total product curve and average product curve. The marginal product curve plays in key role in the economic analysis of short-run production by a firm in large part because economists are generally obsessed with marginal changes in production.
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Lesson 19: Monopolistic Competition | Unit 4: Analysis
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Efficiency And Excess Capacity
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- The market control of monopolistic competition firms has two important implications:
- First, resources are not used efficiently.
- Second, as previously noted, firms have excess capacity.
- Efficiency: Resources are used efficiently when price is equal to marginal cost.
- Excess Capacity: In the long run, efficient use of capital is achieved at the minimum efficient scale.
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MARGINAL FACTOR COST, MONOPSONY The change in total factor cost resulting from a change in the quantity of factor input employed by a monopsony. Marginal factor cost, abbreviated MFC, indicates how total factor cost changes with the employment of one more input. It is found by dividing the change in total factor cost by the change in the quantity of input used. Marginal factor cost is compared with marginal revenue product to identify the profit-maximizing quantity of input to hire.
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Parker Brothers, the folks who produce the Monopoly board game, prints more Monopoly money each year than real currency printed by the U.S. government.
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"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." -- William Ward ‚ Texas Wesleyan University Administrator
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IADB Inter-American Development Bank
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