Learn more about how Pressbooks supports open publishing practices. Now draw the combined curves for the two plants. In this article, we explain the law of increasing opportunity cost, explain why it's . 1. Two things could leave an economy operating at a point inside its production possibilities curve. a. The exhibit gives the slopes of the production possibilities curves for each plant. Greed. b. a. D. All of the above, With respect to factors of production, which of the following statements is not true? We have seen the law of increasing opportunity cost at work traveling from point A toward point D on the production possibilities curve in Figure 2.5 The Combined Production Possibilities Curve for Alpine Sports. The governor of The supply curve for monkey wrenches will shift to the right. Figure 2.4 Production Possibilities at Three Plants shows production possibilities curves for each of the firms three plants. Which of the following events would allow the production-possibilities curve to shift outward? A movement from A to B requires shifting resources out of the production of all other goods and services and into spending on security. Hong Kong, with its huge population and tiny endowment of land, allocates virtually none of its land to agricultural use; that option would be too costly. Greater production of one good requires increasingly larger sacrifices of other goods. Figure 2.5 The Combined Production Possibilities Curve for Alpine Sports. Our final lesson focuses on the shape of the frontier line. According to The Wall Street Journal, merger and acquisition activity in the first quarter rose to $5.3\$ 5.3$5.3 billion. The law of increasing opportunity cost states that when a company continues raising production its opportunity cost increases. a. Required use of pollution-control technology that is obsolete This is a difficult concept made simple using the PPF. c. Market participation allows individuals to specialize and, ultimately, consume more. b. c. The price of MP3 players increased because the costs of production increased from 2007 to 2008. If there are idle or inefficiently allocated factors of production, the economy will operate inside the production possibilities curve. The bowed-out curve of Figure 2.5 The Combined Production Possibilities Curve for Alpine Sports becomes smoother as we include more production facilities. c. Income a. c. How many candy bars she will actually buy. First, the economy might fail to use fully the resources available to it. Plant 3 would be the last plant converted to ski production. Further, the economy must make full use of its factors of production if it is to produce the goods and services it is capable of producing. A decrease in the size of the labor force d. The public's welfare. b. Now suppose the firm decides to produce 100 snowboards. Greater production leads to greater inefficiency. The law also applies as the firm shifts from snowboards to skis. The shape of the PPF depends on whether there are increasing, decreasing, or constant costs. McNEESE State University Assig, Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics, Douglas A. Lind, Samuel A. Wathen, William G. Marchal, Fundamentals of Engineering Economic Analysis, David Besanko, Mark Shanley, Scott Schaefer. b. For example, there might be a trade-off between hunting for rabbits or gathering berries. In other words, the opportunity cost of producing 2 widgets is now 4 gadgets. If you have difficulty accessing this content due to a disability, please contact us at 314-444-4662 or economiceducation@stls.frb.org. d. Means that price has changed and there is movement along the demand curve. b. If Alpine Sports selects point C in Figure 2.9 Efficient Versus Inefficient Production, for example, it will assign Plant 1 exclusively to ski production and Plants 2 and 3 exclusively to snowboard production. C. A technological advance 20 hours/2 gallons is 10 gallons of wine per day. In Plant 2, she must give up one pair of skis to gain one more snowboard. Increasing the production of a particular good will cause the price of the good to remain constant. It can shift to ski production at a relatively low cost at first. As the economy transitions from gadgets to widgets, the gadget workers best suited to widget production would transition first, then the workers less suited, and finally the workers not at all well suited to widget production. d. Factories are bought and sold. At point A, Alpine Sports produces 350 pairs of skis per month and no snowboards. Airports around the world hired additional agents to inspect luggage and passengers. Bureaucratic delays Instead of the bowed-out production possibilities curve ABCD, we get a bowed-in curve, ABCD. When factors of production are allocated on a basis other than comparative advantage, the result is inefficient production. a. When the market mechanism is allowed to operate freely, prices will determine: b. We begin at point A, with all three plants producing only skis. A lower quantity demanded of a good reflects, ceteris paribus: The slopes of the production possibilities curves for each plant differ. constraints. In the section of the curve shown here, the slope can be calculated between points B and B. The decision to devote more resources to security and less to other goods and services represents the choice we discussed in the chapter introduction. Much of the land in the United States has a comparative advantage in agricultural production and is devoted to that activity. We can think of this as the opportunity cost of producing an additional snowboard at Plant 1. The second plant, while smaller than the first, was designed to produce snowboards as well as skis. Because an economys production possibilities curve assumes the full use of the factors of production available to it, the failure to use some factors results in a level of production that lies inside the production possibilities curve. Suppose both the demand and supply of salsa increase (although not necessarily by the same amount). a. If market signals result in pollution beyond the optimal level then: a. A leftward shift of the market demand curve for HDTVs, ceteris paribus, causes equilibrium price to: The production possibilities curves for the two plants are shown, along with the combined curve for both plants. The equilibrium price in a market is found where: Jessie's demand schedule for candy bars indicates: Want to create or adapt books like this? The economy produces SA units of security and OA units of all other goods and services per period. In material terms, the forgone output represented a greater cost than the United States would ultimately spend in World War II. The production possibilities curve shown suggests an economy that can produce two goods, food and clothing. d. Lack of money. b. Utilizes both market and nonmarket signals to allocate goods and services. Have you been to a frontier lately? B. If it fails to do that, it will operate inside the curve. c. An increase in the supply of pens. In our example, all three plants are equally good at snowboard production. The level of inflation in the economy. The market mechanism: Suppose the firm decides to produce 100 radios. When the frontier line itself moves, economic growth is under way. c. Experiencing decreasing opportunity costs. a. A production possibilities curve shows the combinations of two goods an economy is capable of producing. Expectations b. The opportunity cost of each of the first 100 snowboards equals half a pair of skis; each of the next 100 snowboards has an opportunity cost of 1 pair of skis, and each of the last 100 snowboards has an opportunity cost of 2 pairs of skis. The opportunity cost of moving from . Nations specialize as well. c. Find the average quantity demanded at each price. d. Find the difference between the quantity demanded and the quantity supplied at each price. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks in 2001, nations throughout the world increased their spending for national security. B. Left-handendpoints:SL=314n6+3n24Right-handendpoints:SR=3n214n2+18n+4. It is hard to imagine that most of us could even survive in such a setting. To calculate market demand we: b. The more one is willing to pay for resources, the smaller will be the possible level of production. d. The set of goods and services that maximizes their utility. Producing a combination of goods and services beyond the production-possibilities curve. d. Does not change when price changes. Here, we have placed the number of pairs of skis produced per month on the vertical axis and the number of snowboards produced per month on the horizontal axis. In reality, however, opportunity cost doesn't remain constant. 2(163/4)23\frac{2\left(16^{3 / 4}\right)}{2^3} a. That was a loss, measured in todays dollars, of well over $3 trillion. a. Add the quantities demanded for each individual demand schedule vertically. Economists say that an economy has a comparative advantage in producing a good or service if the opportunity cost of producing that good or service is lower for that economy than for any other. In drawing production possibilities curves for the economy, we shall generally assume they are smooth and bowed out, as in Panel (b). Between 1929 and 1942, the economy produced 25% fewer goods and services than it would have if its resources had been fully employed. Which of the following is not a macroeconomic statement? The demand curve will shift to the left Well, some resources are better suited for some tasks than others. c. Decreasing opportunity costs will occur with greater automobile production. The U.S. economy looked very healthy in the beginning of 1929. h(u)=1uh(u)=\frac{1}{u} \quadh(u)=u1 over 2u42 \leq u \leq 42u4, (b) g(x)=1x4g(x)=\frac{1}{\sqrt{x-4}}g(x)=x41, (c) h(x)=(x3)(5x)h(x)=\sqrt{(x-3)(5-x)}h(x)=(x3)(5x). Increase and the equilibrium quantity of jelly to increase. b. Such an allocation implies that the law of increasing opportunity cost will hold. a. Thus, the economy chose to increase spending on security in the effort to defeat terrorism. d. Number of buyers, A shift in supply is defined as a change in: Figure 2.9 Efficient Versus Inefficient Production. d. Every market transaction involves an exchange of dollars for goods or resources. d. Decrease and quantity to increase. An economy that is operating inside its production possibilities curve could, by moving onto it, produce more of all the goods and services that people value, such as food, housing, education, medical care, and music. b. Increase and the equilibrium quantity of ice cream to increase. c. Congress increased the minimum wage rate in January. Why does this happen? b. B. While even smaller than the second plant, the third was primarily designed for snowboard production but could also produce skis. Approximately three-fourths of the 78 first-quarter deals occurred between information technology (IT) companies. The opportunity cost of an additional snowboard at each plant equals the absolute values of these slopes (that is, the number of pairs of skis that must be given up per snowboard). a. Desired output. If the government places a binding price ceiling on cancer-treating drugs, then: Through detailed databases. The goods and services that maximize profits for businesses. b. A market in which final goods and services are exchanged is a: The major traceable reason for this is inefficiency in resource reallocation. a. b. c. Eliminates market failures created by government. the opportunity cost of fishing is: B. These intercepts tell us the maximum number of pairs of skis each plant can produce. Lower income. In drawing the production possibilities curve, we shall assume that the economy can produce only two goods and that the quantities of factors of production and the technology available to the economy are fixed. According to the law of demand, during a given period of time, the quantity of a good demanded: Florida places a price ceiling on all building materials to keep the prices reasonable. Is justified by the superiority of laissez faire over government intervention. But the production possibilities model points to another loss: goods and services the economy could have produced that are not being produced. d. Decrease and the equilibrium quantity of jelly to increase. b. We have already seen that an additional snowboard requires giving up two pairs of skis in Plant 1. c. Decrease and the equilibrium quantity of jelly to decrease. At this point, Econ Isle can produce 12 units of gadgets and 0 widgets. As for the benefits packages received by employees from the employers, approximately 33% are . Use the production possibilities model to distinguish between full employment and situations of idle factors of production and between efficient and inefficient production. If an economy is fully utilizing its resources, it can produce more of one product only if it: According to the law of increasing opportunity costs, C. In order to produce additional units of a particular good, it is necessary for society to sacrifice increasingly larger amounts of alternative goods, If the United States decided to convert automobile factories to tank production, as it did during World War II, but finds that some auto manufacturing facilities are not well suited to tank production, then The goal of the consumer in a market economy is to use his/her limited income to buy: The curve shown combines the production possibilities curves for each plant. An economy that fails to make full and efficient use of its factors of production will operate inside its production possibilities curve. Also, I guess that the law of increasing opportunity cost is the opposite of economies of scale. Panel (a) of Figure 2.6 Production Possibilities for the Economy shows the combined curve for the expanded firm, constructed as we did in Figure 2.5 The Combined Production Possibilities Curve for Alpine Sports. Explanation: The increasing opportunity cost law states that as long as the production of a good or service increases, the opportunity cost of producing that next good or service will increase as well. That would bring ski production to 300 pairs, at point B. We can use the production possibilities model to examine choices in the production of goods and services. d. A change in a determinant of demand shifts the supply curve. Profits b. In other words, the opportunity cost of producing 2 widgets is now 6 gadgets. Since we have assumed that the economy has a fixed quantity of available resources, the increased use of resources for security and national defense necessarily reduces the number of resources available for the production of other goods and services. The Production Possibilities Curve (PPC) is a model that captures scarcity and the opportunity costs of choices when faced with the possibility of producing two goods or services. Of course, an economy cannot really produce security; it can only attempt to provide it. In this episode of the How much she likes candy bars. Notice the curve still has a bowed-out shape; it still has a negative slope. d. Percentage change in x coordinates between two points divided by the percentage change in their y coordinates. b. B. be: The market supply curve intersects the y-axis. Evaluate the given expression without using a calculator. Which of the following is not a factor of production? Workers, for example, specialize in particular fields in which they have a comparative advantage. Suppose further that all three plants are devoted exclusively to ski production; the firm operates at A. Which of the following is Suppose Alpine Sports operates the three plants we examined in Figure 2.4 Production Possibilities at Three Plants. Required use of pollution control technology that is obsolete Technology Lower equilibrium price. d. Fewer units actually purchased. d. All of the above. b. Markets necessarily have a physical location. For this scenario to take the factors of production -land, labor, and capital- must be at their maximum efficiency. Many countries, for example, chose to move along their respective production possibilities curves to produce more security and national defense and less of all other goods in the wake of 9/11. It need not imply that a particular plant is especially good at an activity. View the full answer. Increases as its price falls, ceteris paribus. 100% (6 ratings) The correct option is C- cost of producing corn is likely to in . Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics, Douglas A. Lind, Samuel A. Wathen, William G. Marchal, Alexander Holmes, Barbara Illowsky, Susan Dean, Claudia Bienias Gilbertson, Debra Gentene, Mark W Lehman, Fundamentals of Engineering Economic Analysis, David Besanko, Mark Shanley, Scott Schaefer. b. In the transition to widget production, workers would likely need training and time to develop the skills required to be as productive at making widgets as making gadgets. Economic Lowdown Video Series, economic education specialist Scott Wolla explains how the production possibilities frontier (PPF) illustrates some very important economic concepts. She added a second plant in a nearby town. a. This curved line illustrates our fifth and final lesson. So along the straight line, each time Econ Isle increases widget production by 2, it loses the opportunity to produce 4 gadgets. We would say that Plant 1 has a comparative advantage in ski production. As we combine the production possibilities curves for more and more units, the curve becomes smoother. The economy's capital stock declines Explain the difficulty in managing working capital. Production of all other goods and services falls by OA OB units per period. The economy had moved well within its production possibilities curve. The law of increasing opportunity cost states that when firms decide to make additional units of a certain product by reallocating resources, they do that at a higher opportunity cost than the previous production. then: c. Potential output. Quantity supplied because of a change in price. Getting the most goods and services from the available resources. Clearly not. Comparative advantage thus can stem from a lack of efficiency in the production of an alternative good rather than a special proficiency in the production of the first good. The opportunity cost of choosing this option is then 12% rather than the expected 2%. a. John Maynard Keynes. Here, an economy that can produce two categories of goods, security and all other goods and services, begins at point A on its production possibilities curve. Increase and quantity to decrease. a. If it chooses to produce at point A, for example, it can produce FA units of food and CA units of clothing. Getting the most goods and services from the available resources, Which of the following will cause the production possibilities curve to shift inward? Producing 1 additional snowboard at point B requires giving up 2 pairs of skis. d. An increase in the price of electricity. Suppose an economy fails to put all its factors of production to work. Would you be able to consume what you consume now? According to the law of increasing opportunity cost, as a society - more and more of a certain good, further production increases involve ever-greater opportunity costs. An economy achieves a point on its production possibilities curve only if it allocates its factors of production on the basis of comparative advantage. The fact that the opportunity cost of additional snowboards increases as the firm produces more of them is a reflection of an important economic law. d. Works because prices serve as a means of communication between consumers and producers. Ceteris paribus, an increase in the price of peanut butter The exhibit gives the slopes of the production possibilities curves for each of the firms three plants. a. It suggests that to obtain efficiency in production, factors of production should be allocated on the basis of comparative advantage. The supply of MP3 players increased from 2007 to 2008. Is not a very efficient means of communicating consumer demand to the producers of goods and services. d. Higher opportunity costs induce higher output per unit of input. The demand for MP3 players increased from 2007 to 2008. To find this quantity, we add up the values at the vertical intercepts of each of the production possibilities curves in Figure 2.4 Production Possibilities at Three Plants. c. Greater production of one good requires increasingly larger sacrifices of other goods. d. A shift in the function. The bowed-out curve of Figure 2.4 becomes smoother as we include more production facilities. This point shows widget production increased by 2, and this by 2 more, and this by 2 more, indicating all widgets and no gadgets. The increase in resources devoted to security meant fewer other goods and services could be produced. One, of course, was increased defense spending. a. If it is using the same quantities of factors of production but is operating inside its production possibilities curve, it is engaging in inefficient production. Among the compensation packages, 70% comprise of the employee wages. All the consumer desires are satisfied and business profits are maximized. c. An increase in the demand for corn syrup. c. A higher price of the good. The plant for which the opportunity cost of an additional snowboard is greatest is the plant with the steepest production possibilities curve; the plant for which the opportunity cost is lowest is the plant with the flattest production possibilities curve. The prices of the factors of production c. Government purchases decrease. Suppose it begins at point D, producing 300 snowboards per month and no skis. The concept of opportunity cost in economics can change depending on the scenario. The related concept of marginal cost is the cost of producing one extra unit of something. Increasing the availability of these goods would improve the standard of living. d. From 2007 to 2008 the demand curve for MP3 players was upward sloping because of improved technology. There is full employment of resources. It shows that Econ Isle can produce a maximum of 12 gadgets and 6 widgets or any other combination along the line. According to the law of increasing opportunity costs: a. Greater production leads to greater inefficiency. d. A decrease in the supply of pens, If there are only two airlines that fly between Dallas and New Orleans, what will happen in the market for This time, however, imagine that Alpine Sports switches plants from skis to snowboards in numerical order: Plant 1 first, Plant 2 second, and then Plant 3. More people will die from cancer. The law of increasing opportunity cost states that whenever the same resource allocation decision is made, the opportunity cost will increase. The bowed-out production possibilities curve for Alpine Sports illustrates the law of increasing opportunity cost. This opportunity cost equals the absolute value of the slope of the production possibilities curve. d. The supply of cancer-treating curves will increase. We can think of each of Ms. Ryders three plants as a miniature economy and analyze them using the production possibilities model. C. factors of production include land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship Now consider what would happen if Ms. Ryder decided to produce 1 more snowboard per month. Here's widget production increased by another 2. If Econ Isle's production moved in the opposite direction, from all gadgets to all widgets, the law would still hold: As you increase the production of one good, the opportunity cost to produce the additional good increases. It loses the opportunity to produce 6 gadgets. In other words, the production of wheat is declining by greater and greater amounts: the opportunity cost is increasing. c. An increase in income C. Decreasing opportunity costs will occur with greater auto mobile production A decrease in the supply of corn syrup. b. To see this relationship more clearly, examine Figure 2.3 The Slope of a Production Possibilities Curve. c. Also means demand has shifted. b. The table shows the combinations of pairs of skis and snowboards that Plant 1 is capable of producing each month. A decrease in the demand for corn syrup. Higher opportunity costs induce higher output per unit of input. d. An increase in knowledge. d. Income. b. In order to produce any good or service, it is necessary to have factors of production the most likely result? Question: According to the law of increasing opportunity costs, A. D. Only those resources that are privately owned are counted as factors of production, Which of the following correctly characterizes the shape of a constant opportunity cost production possibilities curve? a. d. There will be a rightward movement along the initial supply curve for monkey wrenches. In most markets, the equilibrium price is achieved: Question: According to the law of increasing opportunity costs: A. Putting its factors of production to work allows a move to the production possibilities curve, to a point such as A. c. The supply curve will shift to the right to create equilibrium. b. Ceteris paribus, which of the following is most likely to cause an increase in the quantity demanded of Its downwards slope reflects scarcity. If the firm wishes to increase snowboard production, it will first use Plant 3, which has a comparative advantage in snowboards. b. According to the law of increasing opportunity costs, ? The business will net $2,000 in year 2 and $5,000 in all future years. d. Why she likes candy bars. Increasing opportunity cost is important in business and economics because it describes the danger of a complete shift into non-production. When an economy is operating on its production possibilities curve, we say that it is engaging in efficient production. Here's where the curved frontier line comes in. d. The government is allocating resources inefficiently. The economy experiences government failure. For example, many Econ Isle workers are likely very productive gadget makers. The firm then starts producing snowboards. This production possibilities curve includes 10 linear segments and is almost a smooth curve. However, a straight line doesn't best reflect how the real economy uses resources to produce goods. Greater production of one good requires increasingly larger sacrifices of other goods. Below is the full transcript of this video presentation. A. producing a combination of goods and services beyond the production possibilities curve a. Scarcity. Sort by: First, remember that opportunity cost is the value of the next-best alternative when a decision is made; it's what is given up. Understand specialization and its relationship to the production possibilities model and comparative advantage. Notice that this curve is linear. That will require shifting one of its plants out of ski production. a. A production possibilities curve is a graphical representation of the alternative combinations of goods and services an economy can produce. If EMC's estimated opportunity cost of funds is 999 percent, as an analyst, how would you view the acquisition? Which one will it choose to shift? b. Some workers are without jobs, some buildings are without occupants, some fields are without crops. For this reason, the frontier is usually drawn as a curved line that is concave to the origin. The more one is willing to pay for resources, the smaller will be the possible level of production. Expanding snowboard production to 51 snowboards per month from 50 snowboards per month requires a reduction in ski production to 98 pairs of skis per month from 100 pairs. d. People begin to retire at earlier ages, Which of the following will cause the production-possibilities curve to shift inward? Put calculators on the vertical axis and radios on the horizontal axis. one airline if the other one goes out of business? a. Greater production means factor prices rise. b. The bowed-out shape of the production possibilities curve illustrates the law of increasing opportunity cost. 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