CONSTANT-COST INDUSTRY: A perfectly competitive industry with a flat, or perfectly elastic long-run industry supply curve that results because expansion of the industry has no affect on production cost or resource prices. For a constant-cost industry the entry of new firms, prompted by an increase in demand, has no affect on the long-run average cost curve of each firm nor its minimum efficient scale of production.

     See also | perfect competition | supply | supply curve | industry | demand increase | minimum efficient scale | production cost | resource prices | economies of scale | increasing-cost industry | decreasing-cost industry |

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A curve that graphically represents the relation between total factor cost incurred by a monopsony when using a given factor of production to produce a good or service. The total factor cost curve is most important in factor market analysis for the derivation of the marginal factor cost curve.

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