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constant-cost industry increasing-cost industry long-run equilibrium marginal re

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Question

constant-cost industry

increasing-cost industry

long-run equilibrium

marginal revenue product

perfect competition

perfectly elastic demand

shut down

shut-down price

___A market structure in which a large number of firms sell a homogenous product or service with no restrictions on entry or exit and each firm is a price-taker.

___The demand facing a price-taking firm.

___A firm produces zero output but must still pay its fixed costs.

___Price below which a firm shuts down in the short run.

___All firms produce where price equals long-run marginal cost, and economic profits are zero.

___Industry in which input prices rise as all firms in the industry expand output.

___Industry in which input prices remain constant as all firms in the industry expand output.

___The additional revenue earned by hiring one more unit of a variable input.

Explanation / Answer

(a) A market structure in which a large number of firms sell a homogenous product or service with no restrictions on entry or exit and each firm is a price-taker - Perfect competition

(b) The demand facing a price-taking firm - Perfectly elastic demand (A horizontal demand curve)

(c) A firm produces zero output but must still pay its fixed costs - Shut down

(d) Price below which a firm shuts down in the short run - Shut down price

(e) All firms produce where price equals long-run marginal cost, and economic profits are zero - Long run equilibrium

(f) Industry in which input prices rise as all firms in the industry expand output - Increasing cost industry

(g) Industry in which input prices remain constant as all firms in the industry expand output - Constant cost industry

(h) The additional revenue earned by hiring one more unit of a variable input - Marginal revenue