Short-Run and Long-Run Average Cost (SRAC and LRAC)

Costs & Production · Micro
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LRAC SRAC 1–4
Economies of scale: each SRAC is one fixed scale of plant, tangent to the LRAC. Average cost falls from P1 to P3 as scale grows, then stays at P3 from Q3 to Q4.