Test#2 Study Guide

Test#2 will consist of 20 True/False questions, and a graphical analysis section. 

The following topics will be covered on the second test.

True/False section:

  • Explicit cost
  • Implicit cost
  • Accounting profit
  • Economic profit
  • Total revenue
  • Profit
  • Marginal revenue
  • Long run
  • Short run
  • Marginal product of labor
  • Diminishing returns
  • Total cost curve
  • Marginal cost curve
  • Average fixed cost curve
  • Scale effects
  • Sunk cost
  • Price-takers
  • Market share in Perfect Competition 
  • The price-taking firm's optimal output rule
  • The break-even price
  • Fixed cost and short-run production
  • The shut-down price in the short-run

Graphical Analysis Section:

Remember to label graphs fully! 

Be able to graphically illustrate a price-taking firm's profit-maximizing quantity of output. 

Be able to graphically illustrate production and costs in the short-run identifying the break-even price for a perfectly competitive firm.

Be able to graphically illustrate the market as a whole versus the market for an individual farmer given appropriate data for the market price, and quantity.