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205:, a firm experiencing decreasing returns will have increasing long-run average costs, and a firm experiencing increasing returns will have decreasing long-run average costs. However, this relationship breaks down if the firm does not face perfectly competitive factor markets (i.e., in this context, the price one pays for a good does depend on the amount purchased). For example, if there are increasing returns to scale in some range of output levels, but the firm is so big in one or more input markets that increasing its purchases of an input drives up the input's per-unit cost, then the firm could have diseconomies of scale in that range of output levels. Conversely, if the firm is able to get bulk discounts of an input, then it could have economies of scale in some range of output levels even if it has decreasing returns in production in that output range. 2117: 25: 2106: 1041: 155:(DRS). For example, when inputs (labor and capital) increase by 100%, the increase in output is less than 100%. The main reason for the decreasing returns to scale is the increased management difficulties associated with the increased scale of production, the lack of coordination in all stages of production, and the resulting decrease in production efficiency. 166:
A firm's production function could exhibit different types of returns to scale in different ranges of output. Typically, there could be increasing returns at relatively low output levels, decreasing returns at relatively high output levels, and constant returns at some range of output levels between
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In the long run, all factors of production are variable and subject to change in response to a given increase in production scale. In other words, returns to scale analysis is a long-term theory because a company can only change the scale of production in the long run by changing factors of
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In mainstream microeconomics, the returns to scale faced by a firm are purely technologically imposed and are not influenced by economic decisions or by market conditions (i.e., conclusions about returns to scale are derived from the specific mathematical structure of the production function
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In a more general set-up, for a multi-input-multi-output production processes, one may assume technology can be represented via some technology set, call it
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Assuming that the factor costs are constant (that is, that the firm is a perfect competitor in all input markets) and the production function is
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production, such as building new facilities, investing in new machinery, or improving technology.
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When the usages of all inputs increase by a factor of 2, new values for output will be:
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If output increases by the same proportional change as all inputs change then there are
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More than twice the previous output if there are increasing returns to scale (IRS)
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Less than twice the previous output if there are decreasing returns to scale (DRS)
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If output increases by more than the proportional change in all inputs, there are
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If output increases by less than the proportional change in all inputs, there are
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Twice the previous output if there are constant returns to scale (CRS)
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are factors of production—capital and labor, respectively.
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The elasticity of scale and the shape of average costs
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There are three possible types of returns to scale:
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