Micro Unit 3

The market can be classified as Long-Run and Short-Run.
In Short-Run some resources are Fixed Resources. While in Long-Run, all of the resources are Variable Resources.

There are different kinds of cost when a firm producing a product:

  1. Fixed Costs
  2. Variable Costs
  3. Total Costs
  4. Average Fixed Costs (AFC)
  5. Average Variable Cost (AVC)
  6. Average Total Cost (ATC)
  7. Marginal Cost (MC)

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There are two kinds of Efficiency:
Productive Efficiency, which is price equals the minimum ATC.
Allocative Efficiency, which is price equals marginal cost.

Market Structure

Perfect Competition
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