The fact that a financial intermediary can hire a lawyer to write one contract that works for many customers is an example of: the law of increasing opportunity cost. the law of diminishing marginal returns. the law of demand. economies of scale.
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This means that as the output (number of customers served by the contract) increases, the average cost per customer decreases because the fixed cost of writing the contract is spread over a larger number of customers. Show more…
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