Suppose a price-taking firm uses a single input - labor - to produce an output x. The production technology has diminishing marginal product of labor throughout.
a. On a graph with labor hours on the horizontal and output on the vertical axis, illustrate the production frontier for this firm.
b. For a given wage rate w and output price p, illustrate three isoprofit curves corresponding to profit levels ?
What will be an ideal response?
a.
b. At the profit maximizing production plan A,
c. All production plans that lie on the production frontier are cost-minimizing.
d. e.
f. The short-run supply curve is the entire MC curve --- including the dashed and solid parts below. The long run supply curve is just the solid part that lies above the long run AC curve.
b. At the profit maximizing production plan A,
c. All production plans that lie on the production frontier are cost-minimizing.
d. e.
f. The short-run supply curve is the entire MC curve --- including the dashed and solid parts below. The long run supply curve is just the solid part that lies above the long run AC curve.
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