Chapter 8 Perfect Competition Key Concepts Summary Practice
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Chapter 8 Perfect Competition • Key Concepts • Summary • Practice Quiz • Internet Exercises © 2002 South-Western College Publishing 1
Who was Adam Smith? The father of modern economics who wrote The Wealth of Nations, published in 1776 2
What did Adam Smith say about competitive forces? They are like an “invisible hand” that leads people who simply pursue their own interests to serve the interests of society 3
What is the purpose of this chapter? To explain how competitive markets determine prices, output, and profits 4
What is market structure? A classification system for the key traits of a market, including the number of firms, the similarity of the products they sell, and the ease of entry and exit 5
What is perfect competition? 1. many small firms 2. homogeneous product 3. very easy entry and exit 4. price taker 6
What does homogeneous mean? Goods that cannot be distinguished from one another; for example, one potato cannot be distinguished from another potato 7
What is a price taker? A seller that has no control over the price of the product it sells 8
What determines price? Supply and Demand 9
P Market Supply and Demand $140 $130 $120 $100 $80 $60 $40 $20 S DQ 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 10
What determines the individual firm’s demand curve? A horizontal line at the market price 11
$140 $130 $120 Individual firm demand $100 $80 $60 $40 $20 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 D 12
Why is this horizontal line the firm’s demand curve? If the firm charges more than this price, it will not sell anything, and it has no incentive to charge less than this price 13
Why does the firm have no incentive to charge less than the market price? It can sell everything it brings to market at the market price 14
What does the perfectly competitive firm control? The only thing it controls is how many units it produces 15
How many units should this firm produce? The number of units whereby it will maximize its profits, or at least minimize its losses 16
What are the two methods to determine how many units to produce? • TR and TC • MR and MC 17
Using the total revenue - total cost method, where should a firm produce? Where the distance between TR and TC is the greatest 18
P $500 Maximize Profit TR $400 TC $300 $200 $100 Quantity of Output 1 2 3 4 5 Q 19
P Maximize Profit Output $150 $100 TR $50 0 -$50 Quantity of Output 1 2 3 4 5 Q 20
What is marginal revenue? MR = TR / 1 output 21
What is marginal cost? MC = TC / 1 output 22
Using the marginal revenue and marginal cost method, where should a firm produce? MR = MC 23
Why should a firm continue to produce as long as MR > MC? As long as MR is > than MC, money is being made on that last unit 24
Why will a firm not produce that unit where MR < MC? At the unit of output where MR < MC, money is being lost on that last unit 25
Why does P = AR in perfect competition? Each additional unit sold is adding the market price to TR and TR divided by P = AR 26
Price & Cost per unit $80 $70 $60 $50 $40 $30 $20 $10 MR=MC MC ATC P = MR = AR Profit AVC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 27
$70 $60 $50 $40 $30 $20 $10 Price & Cost per unit P MR=MC MC Loss ATC AVC P=MR=AR 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Q 28
$70 $60 $50 $40 $30 $20 $10 Price & Cost per unit P Short-Run Shutdown MC ATC AVC Loss P=MR=AR MR=MC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Q 29
Firm will shut down Price (MR) is below minimum average variable cost 30
What is the perfectly competitive firm’s shortrun supply curve? The firm’s marginal cost curve above the minimum point on its average variable cost curve 31
P $70 $60 $50 $40 $30 $20 $10 Firm’s Short-Run Supply Curve MR 3 MR 2 MC ATC AVC MR 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Q 32
What is the industry’s supply curve? The summation of the individual firm’s MC curves that lie above their minimum AVC points 33
P $130 $120 $100 $80 $60 $40 $20 Industry Equilibrium S = MC 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 Q 34
What is a normal profit? The minimum profit necessary to keep a firm in operation 35
In the long-run, what happens when economic profits are made? When firms make more than a normal profit, firms enter the industry, as supply increases, a downward pressure is put on prices 36
In the long-run, what happens when losses are made? When firms make less than a normal profit, firms leave the industry, as supply decreases, an upward pressure is put on prices 37
In the long-run, where is equilibrium? At the market price that enables firms to make a normal profit 38
What exists at long-run perfectly competitive equilibrium? P = MR = SRMC = SRATC = LRAC 39
P $70 $60 $50 $40 $30 $20 $10 Long-Run Competitive Equilibrium SRMC SATC LRAC MR 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Q 40
P $130 $120 $100 $80 $60 $40 $20 Industry Equilibrium S = MC D 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 Q 41
What different types of industries can exist in the long-run? • Constant-cost • Decreasing-cost • Increasing-cost 42
What is a constant-cost industry? An industry in which the expansion of industry output by the entry of new firms has no effect on the firm’s cost curves 43
What does the longrun supply curve look like in a constant-cost industry? It is perfectly elastic, which is horizontal 44
Increase in demand sets a higher equilibrium price Entry of new firms increases supply Initial equilibrium price is restored Perfectly elastic long-run supply curve 45
What is a decreasingcost industry? An industry in which the expansion of industry output by the entry of new firms decreases the firm’s cost curves 46
What does the long-run supply curve look like in a decreasing-cost industry? It is downward sloping 47
Increase in demand sets a higher equilibrium price Entry of new firms increases supply Equilibrium price and ATC decrease Downward sloping long-run supply curve 48
What is an increasingcost industry? An industry in which the expansion of industry output by the entry of new firms increases the firm’s cost curves 49
What does the long-run supply curve look like in a increasing-cost industry? It is upward sloping 50
Increase in demand sets a higher equilibrium price Entry of new firms increases supply Equilibrium price and ATC increase Upward sloping long-run supply curve 51
Key Concepts 52
Key Concepts • • What is perfect competition? What is a price taker? What determines price? What determines the individual firm’s demand curve? • Why does the firm have no incentive to charge less than the market price? • Using the marginal revenue and marginal cost method, where should a firm produce? 53
Key Concepts cont. • Why does MR = P in perfect competition? • What is a normal profit? • In the long-run, what happens when economic profits are made? • In the long-run, what happens when losses are made? • In the long-run, where is equilibrium? • What different types of industries can exist in the long-run? 54
Summary 55
Market structure consists of three market characteristics: (1) the number of sellers, (2) the nature of the product, (3) the case of entry into or exit from the market. 56
Perfect competition is a market structure in which an individual firm cannot affect the price of the product it produces. Each firm in the industry is very small relative to the market as a whole, all the firms sell a homogeneous product, and firms are free to enter and exit the industry. 57
A price-taker firm in perfect competition faces a perfectly elastic demand curve. It can sell all it wishes at the marketdetermined price, but it will sell nothing above the given market price. This is because so many competitive firms are willing to sell at the going market price. 58
The total revenue-total cost method is one way the firm determines the level of output that maximizes profit. Profit reaches a maximum when the vertical difference between the total revenue and the total cost curves is at a maximum. 59
P $500 Maximize Profit TR $400 TC $300 $200 $100 Quantity of Output 1 2 3 4 5 Q 60
The marginal revenue equals marginal cost method is a second approach to finding where a firm maximizes profits. Marginal revenue is the change in total revenue from a one-unit change in output. Marginal revenue for a perfectly competitive firm equals the market price. 61
The MR = MC rule states that the firm maximizes profit or minimizes loss by producing the output where marginal revenue equals marginal cost. If the price (average revenue) is below the minimum point on the average variable cost curve, the MR = MC rule does not apply, and the firm shuts down to minimize its losses. 62
Price & Cost per unit $80 $70 $60 $50 $40 $30 $20 $10 MR=MC MC ATC P = MR = AR Profit AVC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 63
$70 $60 $50 $40 $30 $20 $10 Price & Cost per unit P MR=MC MC Loss ATC AVC P=MR=AR 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Q 64
$70 $60 $50 $40 $30 $20 $10 Price & Cost per unit P Short-Run Shutdown MC ATC AVC Loss P=MR=AR MR=MC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Q 65
The perfectly competitive firm’s short -run supply curve is a curve showing the relationship between the price of a product and the quantity supplied in the short run. 66
The individual firm always produces along its marginal cost curve above its intersection with the average variable cost curve. The perfectly competitive industry’s short-run supply curve is the horizontal summation of the short-run supply curves of all firms in the industry. 67
P $130 $120 $100 $80 $60 $40 $20 Industry Equilibrium S = MC 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 Q 68
Long-run perfectly competitive equilibrium occurs when the firm earns a normal profit by producing where price equals minimum long-run average cost equals minimum short-run average total cost equals shortrun marginal cost. 69
Long-Run Competitive Equilibrium P $70 $60 $50 $40 $30 $20 $10 Equilibrium SRMC SATC LRAC MR 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Q 70
A constant-cost industry is an industry whose total output can be expanded without an increase in the firm’s average total cost. Because input prices remain constant, the long-run supply curve in a constant-cost industry is perfectly elastic. 71
A decreasing-cost industry is an industry in which lower input prices result in a downwardsloping long-run supply curve. As industry output expands, the firm’s average total cost curve shifts downward, and the long-run equilibrium market price falls. 72
An increasing-cost industry is an industry in which input prices rise as industry output increases. As a result, the firm’s average total cost curve rises, and the long-run supply curve for an increasingcost industry is upward sloping. 73
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