What does the Long-Run Average Total Cost Curve represent? A) It represents primarily employee salaries, benefits and training costs. B) It represents the all costs of production including explicit and implicit costs. C) It represents the fact that all costs are going down over time. D) It represents the fact that all costs are going up over time
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The LRATC curve represents the average total cost of production in the long run, which means it considers all possible short-run average total cost curves and the economies and diseconomies of scale that can occur as a firm changes its production level. Show more…
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This graph depicts average total cost functions for a firm that produces automobiles. Use the graph to answer the following question(s). 1. Refer to Graph. Which of the curves is most likely to characterize the short-run average total cost curve of the biggest factory? a. ATCA b. ATCD c. ATCC d. ATCB 2. Refer to Graph. Which curve represents the long-run average total cost? a. ATCC b. ATCD c. ATCB d. ATCA 3. Refer to Graph. If the firm is currently operating on ATCB, what options does it have if it wants to change its level of automobile production over the next couple of weeks? a. The firm has no options. It cannot change the output level in the short run. b. It can operate at any level of output between points M and N. c. It can operate at any level of output, as long as it stays on ATCD. d. It can operate at any level of output as long as it stays on ATCB. 4. Refer to Graph. This firm experiences constant returns to scale at which output levels? a. All of the above levels if the firm is operating in the long run. b. Output levels above N. c. Output levels between M and N. d. Output levels below M. 5. Refer to Graph. At levels of output below point M, the firm experiences: a. Economic profit. b. Economies of scale. c. Accounting profit. d. Diseconomies of scale.
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long-run diseconomies of scale exist when the a. short-run average total cost curve falls. b. long-run marginal cost curve rises. c. long-run average total cost curve falls. d. short-run average variable cost curve rises. e. long-run average cost curve rises.
15. In the above long-run average total cost curve the: A) movement from A to B reflects diseconomies of scale. B) movement from B to C reflects diseconomies of scale. C) realization of economies of scale would shift the entire curve downward D) movement from B to C reflects the law of diminishing returns.
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