Shape Characteristics of Cost Curves Involving Multiple Shifts in Automotive Assembly Plants
作者:
ROBERTR. INMAN,
期刊:
The Engineering Economist
(Taylor Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 41,
issue 1
页码: 53-67
ISSN:0013-791X
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1080/00137919508967475
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Based on a typical automotive assembly plant in today's environment, this analysis provides insight into the marginal cost curves facing industry. Because of employment guarantee provisions of the labor contract, the short-term marginal cost curve is not U-shaped, increasing, nor even convex. A consequence of this complicated shape is that there may be more than one point where marginal cost equals marginal revenue, thus requiring the firm to evaluate each such point to find its profit maximizing production level.
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