In: Economics
Assess whether the following statements are true or false. Do not forget to motivate your answer.
(a)Suppose that when the price of labor is l = 10 and the price of capital is c = 5, then the minimum cost of producing 10 units of output is 200 dollars. Claim: If the price of labor drops to l = 8, then the minimum cost of producing 10 units will be strictly below 200 dollars (that is, less than 200, not equal to 200)
(b)Claim: If a production function has diminishing marginal product of labor and diminishing marginal product of capital, then that production function cannot have increasing returns to scale.
B)
True ! Since all the inputs entered in the production function have diminishing returns ( increase in one unit of a input , reduce the output ) then together we cannot have increasing returns to scale. Increasing both the inputs together will decrease the overall output