- In microeconomics,
diseconomies of
scale are the cost
disadvantages that
economic actors accrue due to an
increase in
organizational size or in output...
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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...
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returns to scale, has
diseconomies of
scale if and only if it has
decreasing returns to scale, and has
neither economies nor
diseconomies of
scale if it has...
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definition reflecting economies of
scale where negatively sloped and
diseconomies of
scale where positively sloped. If the firm is a
perfect competitor...
- if and only if it has
increasing returns to scale. Likewise, it has
diseconomies of
scale (is
operating in an
upward sloping region of the long-run average...
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studies suggest that,
instead of a U-shaped
curve due to the
presence of
diseconomies of scale, the long run
average cost
curve is more
likely to be L-shaped...
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achieve alone.
Cities form and grow to
exploit economies of agglomeration.
Diseconomies of
agglomeration are the opposite. For example,
spatially concentrated...
- as n
grows large. In a 2006 interview,
Metcalfe stated:
There may be
diseconomies of
network scale that
eventually drive values down with
increasing size...
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there are
diseconomies of scope. It is not
recommended for the two
firms to work together.
Diseconomies of
scope means that it is more...
- time to
carve the
chicken will
remain the same.
Economies of
scale and
diseconomies of
scale further lead to a non-linear
relationship between the number...
