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Microeconomics
Test #2
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Economics
Undergraduate 2
02/28/2007

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Term
implicit cost
Definition
a firm's opportunity cost of using its own resources or those provided by its owners without a corresponding cash payment
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explicit cost
Definition
opportunity cost of resources employed by a firm that takes teh form of cash payments
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equation of accounting profit
Definition
TR-EC
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equation of economic profit
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TR-EC=AP-IC=EP
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The value of a company's owners time. Implicit or Explicit
Definition
Implicit
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Electricity cost. Implicit or Explicit
Definition
Explicit
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True or False Normal profit is teh profit that...
Definition
True
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short run
Definition
period in which the problem is fixed
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long run
Definition
all resources are variable
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marginal cost
Definition
the change in total cost resulting from a one-unit change in output; the change in total cost divided by the change in output, or MC=
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marginal product
Definition
the change in total product that occurs when the use of a particular resource increases by one unit, all other resources constant
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True or False When a firm is experiencing dimishing marginal returns marginal cost is falling.
Definition
False
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