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ECONOMICS Twelfth Edition Chapter 12 Perfect Competition Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Chapter Outline and Learning Objectives 12.1 Define perfect competition 12.2 Explain how a firm makes its output decision 12.3 Explain how price and output are determined in perfect competition 12.4 Explain why firms enter and leave a market 12.5 Predict the effects of technological change in a competitive market 12.6 Explain why perfect competition is efficient Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved What Is Perfect Competition? (1 of 10) • Perfect competition is a market in which ‒ Many firms sell identical products to many buyers. ‒ There are no restrictions to entry into the industry. ‒ Established firms have no advantages over new ones. ‒ Sellers and buyers are well informed about prices. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved What Is Perfect Competition? (2 of 10) • How Perfect Competition Arises ‒ Perfect competition arises when The firm’s minimum efficient scale is small relative to market demand, so there is room for many firms in the market. Each firm is perceived to produce a good or service that has no unique characteristics, so consumers don’t care which firm’s good they buy. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved What Is Perfect Competition? (3 of 10) • Price Takers ‒ In perfect competition, each firm is a price taker. ‒ A price taker is a firm that cannot influence the price of a good or service. ‒ No single firm can influence the price—it must “take” the equilibrium market price. ‒ Each firm’s output is a perfect substitute for the output of the other firms, so the demand for each firm’s output is perfectly elastic. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved What Is Perfect Competition? (4 of 10) • Economic Profit and Revenue ‒ The goal of each firm is to maximize economic profit, which equals total revenue minus total cost. ‒ Total cost is the opportunity cost of production, which includes normal profit. ‒ A firm’s total revenue equals price, P, multiplied by quantity sold, Q, or P Q. ‒ A firm’s marginal revenue is the change in total revenue that results from a one-unit increase in the quantity sold. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved What Is Perfect Competition? (5 of 10) • Figure 12.1 illustrates a firm’s revenue concepts. • Part (a) shows that market demand and market supply determine the market price that the firm must take. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved What Is Perfect Competition? (6 of 10) • With the market price of $25 a sweater, the firm sells 9 sweater and makes total revenue of $225. • Figure 12.1(b) shows the firm’s total revenue curve (TR). Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved What Is Perfect Competition? (7 of 10) • The firm can sell any quantity it chooses at the market price, so marginal revenue equals the market price of $25. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved What Is Perfect Competition? (8 of 10) • Figure 12.1(c) shows the marginal revenue curve (MR), which is the demand curve for the firm’s product. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved What Is Perfect Competition? (9 of 10) • The demand for a firm’s product is perfectly elastic because one firm’s sweater is a perfect substitute for the sweater of another firm. • The market demand is not perfectly elastic because a sweater is a substitute for some other good. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved What Is Perfect Competition? (10 of 10) • The Firm’s Decisions ‒ A perfectly competitive firm’s goal is to make maximum economic profit, given the constraints it faces. ‒ So the firm must decide: How to produce at minimum cost What quantity to produce Whether to enter or exit a market We start by looking at the firm’s output decision. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved The Firm’s Output Decision (1 of 12) • A perfectly competitive firm chooses the output that maximizes its economic profit. • One way to find the profit-maximizing output is to look at the firm’s total revenue and total cost curves. • Figure 12.2 on the next slide looks at these curves along with the firm’s total profit curve. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved The Firm’s Output Decision (2 of 12) • Part (a) shows the total revenue, TR, curve. • Part (a) also shows the total cost curve, TC. • Total revenue minus total cost is economic profit (or loss), shown by the curve EP in part (b). Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved The Firm’s Output Decision (3 of 12) • At low output levels, the firm incurs an economic loss—it can’t cover its fixed costs. • At intermediate output levels, the firm makes an economic profit. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved The Firm’s Output Decision (4 of 12) • At high output levels, the firm again incurs an economic loss—now the firm faces steeply rising costs because of diminishing returns. • The firm maximizes its economic profit when it produces 9 sweaters a day. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved The Firm’s Output Decision (5 of 12) • Marginal Analysis and Supply Decision ‒ The firm can use marginal analysis to determine the profit-maximizing output. ‒ Because marginal revenue is constant and marginal cost eventually increases as output increases, profit is maximized by producing the output at which marginal revenue, MR, equals marginal cost, MC. ‒ Figure 12.3 on the next slide shows the marginal analysis that determines the profit-maximizing output. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved The Firm’s Output Decision (6 of 12) • If MR > MC, economic profit increases if output increases. • If MR < MC, economic profit decreases if output increases. • If MR = MC, economic profit decreases if output changes in either direction, so economic profit is maximized. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved The Firm’s Output Decision (7 of 12) • Temporary Shutdown Decision ‒ If the firm makes an economic loss, it must decide whether to exit the market or to stay in the market. ‒ If the firm decides to stay in the market, it must decide whether to produce something or to shut down temporarily. ‒ The decision will be the one that minimizes the firm’s loss. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved The Firm’s Output Decision (8 of 12) • Loss Comparisons ‒ The firm’s loss equals total fixed cost (TFC) plus total variable cost (TVC) minus total revenue (TR). ‒ Economic loss = TFC + TVC TR = TFC + (AVC P) x Q ‒ If the firm shuts down, Q is 0 and the firm still has to pay its TFC. ‒ So the firm incurs an economic loss equal to TFC. ‒ This economic loss is the largest that the firm must bear. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved The Firm’s Output Decision (9 of 12) • The Shutdown Point ‒ A firm’s shutdown point is the price and quantity at which it is indifferent between producing the profit-maximizing quantity and shutting down. ‒ The shutdown point is at minimum AVC. ‒ This point is the same point at which the MC curve crosses the AVC curve. ‒ At the shutdown point, the firm is indifferent between producing and shutting down temporarily. ‒ At the shutdown point, the firm incurs a loss equal to total fixed cost (TFC). Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved The Firm’s Output Decision (10 of 12) • Figure 12.4 shows the shutdown point. • Minimum AVC is $17 a sweater. • At $17 a sweater, the profit-maximizing output is 7 sweaters a day. • The firm incurs a loss equal to the red rectangle. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved The Firm’s Output Decision (11 of 12) • If the price of a sweater is between $17 and $20.14, … • the firm produces the quantity at which marginal cost equals price. • The firm covers all its variable cost and some of its fixed cost. • It incurs a loss that is less than TFC. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved The Firm’s Output Decision (12 of 12) • The Firm’s Supply Curve ‒ A perfectly competitive firm’s supply curve shows how the firm’s profit-maximizing output varies as the market price varies, other things remaining the same. ‒ Because the firm produces the output at which marginal cost equals marginal revenue, and because marginal revenue equals price, the firm’s supply curve is linked to its marginal cost curve. ‒ But at a price below the shutdown point, the firm produces nothing. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved The Firm’s Decision (1 of 2) • Figure 12.5 shows how the firm’s supply curve is constructed. • If price equals minimum AVC, $17 a sweater, the firm is indifferent between producing nothing and producing at the shutdown point, T. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved The Firm’s Decision (2 of 2) • If the price is $25 a sweater, the firm produces 9 sweaters a day, the quantity at which P = MC. • If the price is $31 a sweater, the firm produces 10 sweaters a day, the quantity at which P = MC. • The blue curve in part (b) traces the firm’s short-run supply curve. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Output, Price, and Profit in the Short Run (1 of 8) • Market Supply in the Short Run ‒ The short-run market supply curve shows the quantity supplied by all firms in the market at each price when each firm’s plant and the number of firms remain the same. ‒ Figure 12.6 (on the next slide) shows the market supply curve of sweaters, when there are 1,000 sweater-producing firms identical to Campus Sweater. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Output, Price, and Profit in the Short Run (2 of 8) • Figure 12.6 shows the market supply curve. • At the shutdown price ($17), some firms will produce the shutdown quantity (7 sweaters) and others will produce zero. • At this price, the market supply curve is horizontal. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Output, Price, and Profit in the Short Run (3 of 8) • Short-Run Equilibrium • Short-run market supply and market demand determine the market price and output. • Figure 12.7 shows a shortrun equilibrium. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Output, Price, and Profit in the Short Run (4 of 8) • A Change in Demand • An increase in demand brings a rightward shift of the market demand curve: The price rises and the quantity increases. • A decrease in demand brings a leftward shift of the market demand curve: The price falls and the quantity decreases. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Output, Price, and Profit in the Short Run (5 of 8) • Profits and Losses in the Short Run ‒ Maximum profit is not always a positive economic profit. ‒ To see if a firm is making a profit or incurring a loss compare the firm’s ATC at the profit-maximizing output with the market price. ‒ Figure 12.8 on the next slide shows the three possible profit outcomes. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Output, Price, and Profit in the Short Run (6 of 8) • In part (a) price equals average total cost and the firm makes zero economic profit (breaks even). Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Output, Price, and Profit in the Short Run (7 of 8) • In part (b), price exceeds average total cost and the firm makes a positive economic profit. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Output, Price, and Profit in the Short Run (8 of 8) • In part (c) price is less than average total cost and the firm incurs an economic loss—economic profit is negative. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Output, Price, and Profit in the Long Run (1 of 8) • In short-run equilibrium, a firm might make an economic profit, break even, or incur an economic loss. • In long-run equilibrium, firms break even because firms can enter or exit the market. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Output, Price, and Profit in the Long Run (2 of 8) • Entry and Exit ‒ New firms enter an industry in which existing firms make an economic profit. ‒ Firms exit an industry in which they incur an economic loss. ‒ Figure 12.9 shows the effects of entry and exit. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Output, Price, and Profit in the Long Run (3 of 8) • A Closer Look at Entry • When the market price is $25 a sweater, firms in the market are making economic profit. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Output, Price, and Profit in the Long Run (4 of 8) • New firms have an incentive to enter the market. • When they do, the market supply increases and the market price falls. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Output, Price, and Profit in the Long Run (5 of 8) • Firms enter as long as firms are making economic profits. • In the long run, the market price falls until firms are making zero economic profit. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Output, Price, and Profit in the Long Run (6 of 8) • A Closer Look at Exit • When the market price is $17 a sweater, firms in the market are incurring economic loss. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Output, Price, and Profit in the Long Run (7 of 8) • Firms have an incentive to exit the market. • When they do, the market supply decreases and the market price rises. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Output, Price, and Profit in the Long Run (8 of 8) • Firms exit as long as firms are incurring economic losses. • In the long run, the price continues to rise until firms make zero economic profit. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Changes in Demand and Supply as Technology Advances (1 of 15) • An Increase in Demand ‒ An increase in demand shifts the market demand curve rightward. ‒ The price rises and the quantity increases. ‒ Starting from long-run equilibrium, firms make economic profits. ‒ Figure 12.10 illustrates the effects of an increase in demand. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Changes in Demand and Supply as Technology Advances (2 of 15) • The market demand curve shifts rightward, the market price rises, and each firm increases the quantity it produces. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Changes in Demand and Supply as Technology Advances (3 of 15) • The market price is now above the firm’s minimum average total cost, so firms make economic profit. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Changes in Demand and Supply as Technology Advances (4 of 15) • Economic profit induces some firms to enter the market, which increases the market supply and the price starts to fall. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Changes in Demand and Supply as Technology Advances (5 of 15) • As the price falls, the quantity produced by all firms starts to decrease and each firm’s economic profit starts to fall. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Changes in Demand and Supply as Technology Advances (6 of 15) • Eventually, enough firms have entered for the supply and increased demand to be in balance and firms make zero economic profit. Firms no longer enter the market. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Changes in Demand and Supply as Technology Advances (7 of 15) • The main difference between the initial and new long-run equilibrium is the number of firms in the market. • More firms produce the equilibrium quantity. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Changes in Demand and Supply as Technology Advances (8 of 15) • A decrease in demand has the opposite effects to those just described and shown in Figure 12.10. • A decrease in demand shifts the demand curve leftward. • The price falls and the quantity decreases. • Firms incur economic losses. • Economic loss induces exit. • The short-run market supply curve shifts leftward. • As the market supply decreases, the price stops falling and starts to rise. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Changes in Demand and Supply as Technology Advances (9 of 15) • With a rising price, each firm increases its output as it moves along up its marginal cost curve (supply curve). • A new long-run equilibrium occurs when the price has risen to equal minimum ATC. • Firms make zero economic profit, and firms have no incentive to exit the market. • In the new equilibrium, a smaller number of firms produce the equilibrium quantity. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Changes in Demand and Supply as Technology Advances (10 of 15) • Technological Advances Change Supply • Starting from a long-run equilibrium, when a new technology becomes available that lowers production costs, the first firms to use it make economic profit. • But as more firms begin to use the new technology, market supply increases and the price falls. • Figure 12.11 illustrates the effects of an increase in supply. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Changes in Demand and Supply as Technology Advances (11 of 15) • Part (a) shows the market. • Part (b) shows a firm using the original old technology. • Firms are making zero economic profit. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Changes in Demand and Supply as Technology Advances (12 of 15) • When a new technology becomes available, the ATC and MC curves shift downward. • Firms that use the new technology make economic profit. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Changes in Demand and Supply as Technology Advances (13 of 15) • Economic profit induces some new-technology firms to enter the market. • The market supply increases and the price starts to fall. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Changes in Demand and Supply as Technology Advances (14 of 15) • With the lower price, old-technology firms incur economic losses. • Some exit the market; others switch to the new technology. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Changes in Demand and Supply as Technology Advances (15 of 15) • Eventually all firms are using new technology. • The market supply has increased and firms are making zero economic profit. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Competition and Efficiency (1 of 7) • Efficient Use of Resources ‒ Resources are used efficiently when no one can be made better off without making someone else worse off. ‒ This situation arises when marginal social benefit equals marginal social cost. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Competition and Efficiency (2 of 7) • Choices, Equilibrium, and Efficiency ‒ We can describe an efficient use of resources in terms of the choices of consumers and firms coordinated in market equilibrium. • Choices ‒ A consumer’s demand curve shows how the best budget allocation changes as the price of a good changes. ‒ So at all points along their demand curves, consumers get the most value out of their resources. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Competition and Efficiency (3 of 7) • If the people who consume the good are the only ones who benefit from the good, the market demand curve is the marginal social benefit curve. • A competitive firm’s supply curve shows how the profitmaximizing quantity changes as the price of a good changes. • So at all points along their supply curves, firms get the most value out of their resources. • If the firms that produce the good bear all the costs of producing it, then the market supply curve is the marginal social cost curve. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Competition and Efficiency (4 of 7) • Equilibrium and Efficiency ‒ In competitive equilibrium, resources are used efficiently—the quantity demanded equals the quantity supplied, so marginal social benefit equals marginal social cost. ‒ The gain from trade for consumers is measured by consumer surplus. ‒ The gain from trade for producers is measured by producer surplus. ‒ Total gains from trade equal total surplus. In long-run equilibrium total surplus is maximized. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Competition and Efficiency (5 of 7) • Efficiency in the Sweater Market • Figure 12.12(a) shows the market. • Along the market demand curve D = MSB, consumers are efficient. • Along the market supply curve S = MSC, producers are efficient. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Competition and Efficiency (6 of 7) • At the market equilibrium, marginal social benefit equals marginal social cost. • Resources are allocated efficiently. • Total surplus is maximized. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Competition and Efficiency (7 of 7) • In Fig. 12.12(b), Campus Sweaters makes zero economic profit. • Each firm in the market has the plant that enables it to produce at the lowest possible average total cost. • Consumers are as well off as possible because the good cannot be produced at a lower cost and the price equals that least possible cost. Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved