What is minimum efficient scale? What is likely to happen in the long run to firms that do not reach minimum efficient scale?
What will be an ideal response?
Minimum efficient scale is the lowest level of output at which all economies of scale have been exhausted—that is, where the long-run average cost curve stops sloping downward. In the long run, firms that don't reach minimum efficient scale will have higher average costs than competitors that do reach minimum efficient scale, so they will probably be driven out of business. However, firms that justify selling at premium prices due to product differentiation can survive.
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