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Managerial Economics and Strategy, 2/e
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Managerial Economics and Strategy, 2/e

by Jeffrey M. Perloff, James A. Brander
February 2016
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
500 pages
33h 40m
English
Pearson
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5.2 Short-Run Production

The short run is a period in which at least one input is fixed. Focusing on a production process in which capital and labor are the only inputs, we assume that capital is the fixed input and labor is variable. The firm can therefore increase output only by increasing the amount of labor it uses. In the short run, the firm’s production function, Equation 5.1, becomes

q=f( L,  K ¯ ), (5.2)

where q is output, L is the amount of labor, and K ¯ [&*obar*{K}&] is the firm’s fixed amount of capital.

To illustrate the short-run production process, we consider a firm that assembles computers for a manufacturing firm that supplies it with the necessary parts, such as computer chips and disk drives. If the assembly ...

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ISBN: 9780134472553