types of Costs

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Costs

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It gives brief description about the various costs like fixed cost variable costs.

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CostsCosts

Short-run costsShort-run costs

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TFC(Rs.)

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TVC(Rs.)

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TC(Rs.)

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Total costs for firm XTotal costs for firm X

Short-run costsShort-run costs

Marginal cost = TC / QMarginal cost = TC / Q

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Deriving marginal costsDeriving marginal costs

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Costs (Rs.) Deriving marginal costsDeriving marginal costs

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Costs (Rs.) Deriving marginal costsDeriving marginal costs

Q TC MC0 12 1 22 2 28 3 33 4 40 5 52 6 72 7 103

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Costs (Rs.) Deriving marginal costsDeriving marginal costs

Diminishing marginalreturns set in here

Short-run costsShort-run costs

Average cost=TC / Q

Average cost=TC / Q

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Q TC AC0 12 1 22 222 28 143 33 114 40 105 52 10.46 72 127 103 14.7

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Costs (Rs.)

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Average and marginal costsAverage and marginal costs

Long-run costsLong-run costs

Long-run costs=TC / Q

Long-run costs=TC / Q

Alternative long-run average cost curvesAlternative long-run average cost curves

OutputO

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Economies of Scale

OutputO

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Diseconomies of Scale

Alternative long-run average cost curvesAlternative long-run average cost curves

OutputO

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Constant costs

Alternative long-run average cost curvesAlternative long-run average cost curves

A typical long-run average cost curveA typical long-run average cost curve

OutputO

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LRACEconomiesof scale

Constantcosts

Diseconomiesof scale

A typical long-run average cost curveA typical long-run average cost curve

Long-run average and marginal costsLong-run average and marginal costs

OutputO

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LRAC

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Economies of Scale

OutputO

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Diseconomies of Scale

Long-run average and marginal costsLong-run average and marginal costs

OutputO

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LRAC = LRMC

Constant costs

Long-run average and marginal costsLong-run average and marginal costs

OutputO

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Initial economies of scale,then diseconomies of scale

Long-run average and marginal costsLong-run average and marginal costs

Long-run costsLong-run costs

Relationship between short-run and long-run

AC curves

Relationship between short-run and long-run

AC curves

Deriving long-run average cost curves: factories of fixed sizeDeriving long-run average cost curves: factories of fixed size

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Deriving long-run average cost curves: factories of fixed sizeDeriving long-run average cost curves: factories of fixed size

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Examples of short-runaverage cost curves

Deriving long-run average cost curves: choice of factory sizeDeriving long-run average cost curves: choice of factory size

LRAC

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OutputO

Deriving long-run average cost curves: choice of factory sizeDeriving long-run average cost curves: choice of factory size

Explicit and Implicit CostsExplicit and Implicit Costs

Explicit Costs : The money payment that a firm makes to the outsiders who supply inputs.These are the “out of pocket ” costs.Eg. Salaries, price paid for raw material, components etc.

Explicit Costs : The money payment that a firm makes to the outsiders who supply inputs.These are the “out of pocket ” costs.Eg. Salaries, price paid for raw material, components etc.

Implicit Costs : The costs of the “self owned” resources which are employed by the firm and are non – expenditure costs.

Eg. Salary of the proprietor, interest on the entrepreneur’s own investment etc.

Economic Profit versus Accounting Profit

Economists measure a firm’s economic profit as total revenue minus all the opportunity costs

(explicit and implicit).

Accountants measure the accounting profit as the firm’s total

revenue minus only the firm’s explicit costs. In other words, they

ignore the implicit costs.

Economic Profit versus Accounting Profit

When total revenue exceeds both explicit and implicit costs, the

firm earns economic profit.

Economic profit is smaller than accounting profit.

Economic Profit versus Accounting Profit

RevenueTotalopportunitycosts

How an EconomistViews a Firm

Explicitcosts

Economicprofit

Implicitcosts

Explicitcosts

Accountingprofit

How an AccountantViews a Firm

Revenue