Perfect competition and the supply curve - the industry supply curve - the cost of production and Efficiency in the Long-Run Equilibrium

7 important questions on Perfect competition and the supply curve - the industry supply curve - the cost of production and Efficiency in the Long-Run Equilibrium

What is the value of marginal cost in a PC industry in equilibrium? Why?

  • The value of marginal cost is the same fir all firms.
  • Because all firms produce the quantity of output at which marginal cost equals the market price,
  • and as price takers they all face the same market price  

in a PC industry in equilibrium,with free entry and exit what will happen to profits in the loong run? why?

  • There will be zero economics profit
  • because each firm produces the quantity of output that minimizes its average total cost, so the total cost of production of the industry's output is minimized in a perfectly competitive industry

in a PC industry in equilibrium what will happen when there is increasing cost across the industry

  • The high market price will give the entrants a positive economic profit,
  • but for the last entrants they do not get positive economic profit because, average costs will be minimized as the industry reaches long run equilibrium
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When the long run market equilibrium of a perfectly industry is efficient what does that mean for mutually beneficial transactions?

  • no mutually beneficial transaction go unexploited
  • When all consumers who have a willing ness to pay grater than or equal to the sells cost get the good
  • and when the market price matches all consumers with a willingness to pay greater than or equal to the market price to all sellers who have a cost of producing the good less than or equal to the market price

What tells us that production is efficient in the LRE of a PC industry?

Costs are minimized and no resources are wasted

What tells us that the allocation to goods to consumers is efficient?

Every consumer is willing to pay the cost of producing a unit of the good gets it

What does the force of competition make producers responsive to?

  • Changes in consumers' desire,
  • changes in technology

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