Chapter 11 Key Terms
Across
- 3. This is how a firm reaches their customer
- 4. The return needed from a firm to stay in the market in the long run
- 6. Economies of scale that arise from the expansion of a firm
- 8. Where a firm decides to leave the market, as they are unable to cover their fixed costs
- 11. Costs that do not vary with the level of output
- 14. Eventually the firm will get diminishing marginal returns from the variable factor
- 16. Occur for a firm when an increase in scale of production, leads to higher long-run average costs
- 19. The sum of all costs that are incurred, in producing a level of output
- 20. Total cost divided by the quantity produced, this is sometimes referred to as unit cost
- 21. Refers to the income which is generated by a firm
- 22. The cost of producing an additional unit of output
- 24. The level of output at which long-run average cost stops falling as output increases
- 25. Firms buy in bulk as they will have the ability to negotiate good deals with suppliers
- 26. This is profit gained above normal profits- also known as abnormal or economic profit
Down
- 1. Economies of scale that arise from the expansion of the industry which the firm is operating in
- 2. The additional quantity of output produced, by an additional unit of labour output
- 5. Profit made by a business based on explicit costs incurred, but excluding opportunity cost
- 7. Costs that do vary with the level of output
- 9. This occurs for a firm when an increase in the scale of production, leads to production being a lower average cost in the long run
- 10. The period in which at least one factor of production is fixed in supply
- 12. This is the amount of money a firm has to spend
- 13. The additional revenue received by the firm if it sells an additional unit if output
- 15. An organisation which produces output (good/service).
- 17. The revenue received by a firm from it’s sales of a good or service
- 18. The revenue received by the firm per unit of output
- 23. Costs incurred by a firm that cannot be recovered if the firms stops trading
- 27. The period over which the firm is able to vary the inputs of all its factors of production