Economics 9708 · AS & A Level · 7.7

7.7 — practice question

A manufacturing firm operates a single plant that is of optimum size. It then constructs a second plant that is identical to the first. After this, the firm discovers that its long-run average cost has increased. What might explain the alteration in its long-run average cost?

  • Adiminishing returns
  • Bexternal diseconomies of scale
  • Cmanagerial diseconomies of scale
  • Dtechnical diseconomies of scale

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