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Economics of Production: Terms and Definitions, Quizzes of Introduction to Econometrics

Definitions for various terms related to the economics of production, including explicit and implicit costs, accounting profit, economic profit, normal profit, variable and fixed resources, short and long run, total product, marginal product, increasing marginal returns, law of diminishing marginal returns, fixed and variable costs, marginal cost, average fixed cost, average variable cost, average total cost, economies of scale, and diseconomies of scale.

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TERM 1
Explicit Cost
DEFINITION 1
An explicit cost is a direct payment made to others in the
course of running a business, such as wage, rent and
materials, as opposed to implicit costs, which are those
where no actual payment is made.
TERM 2
Implicit Cost
DEFINITION 2
An implicit cost, also called an imputed cost, implied cost, or
notional cost, is the opportunity cost equal to what a firm
must give up in order to use factors which it neither
purchases nor hires.
TERM 3
Accounting Profit
DEFINITION 3
total revenue minus explicit costs
TERM 4
Economic Profit
DEFINITION 4
total revenue minus explicit and implicit costs
TERM 5
Normal Profit
DEFINITION 5
profit required to induce the firms owners to employ their
resources in the firm
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Explicit Cost

An explicit cost is a direct payment made to others in the course of running a business, such as wage, rent and materials, as opposed to implicit costs, which are those where no actual payment is made. TERM 2

Implicit Cost

DEFINITION 2 An implicit cost, also called an imputed cost, implied cost, or notional cost, is the opportunity cost equal to what a firm must give up in order to use factors which it neither purchases nor hires. TERM 3

Accounting Profit

DEFINITION 3 total revenue minus explicit costs TERM 4

Economic Profit

DEFINITION 4 total revenue minus explicit and implicit costs TERM 5

Normal Profit

DEFINITION 5 profit required to induce the firms owners to employ their resources in the firm

Variable Resources

inputs that can be quickly varied to increase or decrease the rate of production TERM 7

Fixed Resources

DEFINITION 7 resources that cannot be varied in the short run TERM 8

Short Run

DEFINITION 8 period of time during which at least one resource is fixed TERM 9

Long Run

DEFINITION 9 period of time during which all resources can be varied TERM 10

Total Product

DEFINITION 10 total output of goods or services produced by the firm

Marginal Cost

marginal cost is the change in total cost that arises when the quantity produced changes by one unit. Marginal cost is key to decision making in the short run. It equals the slope of the total cost curve TERM 17

Average Fixed Cost

DEFINITION 17 Average fixed cost (AFC) is an economics term that refers to fixed costs of production (FC) divided by the quantity (Q) of output produced. Average Fixed Cost = Total Fixed Cost / Output TERM 18

Average Variable Cost

DEFINITION 18 Average Variable Cost = Total Variable Cost / output TERM 19

Average Total Cost

DEFINITION 19 Total cost / output AFC + AVC TERM 20

Economies of Scale

DEFINITION 20 Economies of scale refers to the cost advantages that a business obtains due to expansion.

Diseconomies of Scale

exist when long run average cost arises as plant size increases. TERM 22

Production Function

DEFINITION 22 identifies the maximum quantity of a particular good or service that can be produced per time period by various combinations of resources, for a given level of technology TERM 23

Isoquant

DEFINITION 23 curve that shows all the technologically efficient combinations of two resources that can produce a certain amount of output. isoquants further from the origin represent higher output levels