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1 ECON 1110 Rajiv Vohra Profit Maximization under Perfect Competition Perfect Competition A firm in a perfectly competitive market knows it has no influence over the market price for its product because it is small compared to the market. The firm is a price-taker. Firms sell homogeneous products, e.g. wheat. Perfect Information among buyers and sellers. Free entry and exit very long-run.
2 Suppose a firm produces output y from two inputs x 1 and x 2. The price of the output is p and the prices of the two inputs are w 1 and w 2. Let f(x 1, x 2 ) be the production function. Let f 1 1,x 2 1 and f 2 1,x 2 2 denote the marginal products. Assume that all prices are positive and so are both the marginal products.
3 The firms profit maximization problem can then be written as follows: Choose x 1, x 2 to maximize py w 1 x 1 w 2 x 2, subject to y apple f(x 1, x 2 ). (1) Since prices are positive, and marginal products are positive, the constraint will always be binding (it holds with an equality), and the problem can be rewritten as: Choose x 1, x 2 to maximize pf(x 1, x 2 ) w 1 x 1 w 2 x 2 (2) If x 1, x 2 solve problem (2), the first order conditions are: pf 1 (x 1, x 2 )=w 1, pf 2 (x 1, x 2)=w 2.
4 Notice that these two equations should provide a solution to (x 1, x 2 ) as functions of p, w 1, w 2 the input demand functions. And once we have found (x 1, x 2 ) we can plug these into f to find the optimal supply of y, and also compute the maximized level of profit. Cost Minimization: An intermediate step in profit maximization Now consider a di erent problem, that of minimizing the cost of producing the level of output y, i.e., Given y choose (x 1, x 2 ) to minimize w 1 x 1 + w 2 x 2 subject to f(x 1, x 2 )=y. (3) This determines the input levels which minimize the cost of producing y units of the output.
5 Let c(y; w 1, w 2 ) denote the result of this minimization exercise. It refers to the minimum cost of producing y. Cost minimization is not the main objective of a firm but it can be seen as one auxiliary part of the more important problem of profit maximization. Having solved the cost minimization problem, (3), the profit maximization problem, (1), can now be rewritten as: choose y to maximize py c(y; w 1, w 2 ). (4) Clearly, the first order condition for problem (4) is: p = dc(y; w 1, w 2 ) dy in other words, if y is the profit maximizing level of output then the marginal cost (at y) must equal the price of the output.,
6 Problem (4) is an alternative way of writing problem (1). It seems like a long-winded way of stating (1) since it goes through the intermediate step of first solving the optimization problem (3). The advantage of this approach is that even if there are several inputs, (4) is a problem that involves only one variable: y. And if our primary interest is in studying the optimal level of y, this is the most convenient formulation of the firm s problem. It allows us to see the problem of choosing the profit maximization level of y in a two-dimensional graph. And from this analysis, it is very easy to derive the firm s supply curve.
7 If there is only one input, then the cost minimization step is trivial. Then there will be, according to the production function, a unique level of x 1 which results in output y. And this is simply the inverse of the production function, f 1 (y). The cost function is simply c(y; w 1 )=w 1 f 1 (y), and problem (4) becomes: choose y to maximize py w 1 f 1 (y). (5) dx The first order condition is p = w 1 1 which is the same as the first df order condition corresponding to (1) in the one input case.
8 Conditions for Profit Maximization Suppose the input prices are fixed, and given these prices the (long-run) cost curve is c(y). Suppose c(y) is well-behaved in the sense that it exhibits increasing returns to scale at low levels of output and decreasing returns at high levels of output. The rules for profit maximization are then the following: (1) Find y such that p = c 0 (y ); the first order condition. (2) Make sure that c 00 (y ) > 0; second order condition. (3) Check that py c(y ) 0. Otherwise set y = 0; global condition.
9 Find a level of output at which price equals marginal cost and marginal cost is rising. This is the profit maximizing level of output if the resulting profits are non-negative. Otherwise, the profit maximizing level of output is 0. Notice that y satisfying rules 1 and 2 has the property that it provides the maximum profit among all output plans that involve positive production. Comparing the profit of y to the profit at 0 is then the only other condition left to be checked. This comparison can be rewritten as the condition: min AC apple p. These three conditions immediately allow us to derive the longrun supply curve of the competitive firm.
10 The Firm s Long-Run Supply Decision $/output unit MC(y) AC(y) y
11 The Firm s Long-Run Supply Decision $/output unit p > AC(y) MC(y) AC(y) y
12 The Firm s Long-Run Supply Decision $/output unit p > AC(y) MC(y) AC(y) y
13 The Firm s Long-Run Supply Decision $/output unit The firm s long-run supply curve MC(y) AC(y) y
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