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Decision-Making by Price-Taking Firms
Joseph Tao-yi Wang2008/11/28
(Lecture 10, Micro Theory I)
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A Price Taking Firm
� Maximize Profit vs. Minimize Cost� Cost Function (the Minimized Cost):
� Input Price Change (Revealed Preference)� Normal Input (Input Price Effect on MC)� Convex Cost Function (Revealed Preference)
� Profit Function (The Maximized Profit):� First Laws of Supply (Revealed Preference)� First Laws of Input Demand (Revealed Preference)� Convex Profit Function (Revealed Preference)
� LR vs. SR: Le Chatelier’s Principle (RP too!)
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Producer vs. Consumer
� Profit � Profit Maximation� Cost� Cost Function � Profit Function� Input Price Change� First Laws of Supply
and Input Demand
� Utility � Utility Maximation� Expenditure� Expenditure Function� Indirect Utility Function� SE and IE� Compensated Law of
Demand
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Why do we care about this?
� Suppose you decide to run a small business…� You face a changing environment� And make various business choices everyday� Aren’t you just another “consumer” in the
economy maximizing “utility”?� Profit maximization similar to utility maximization?
� What will your actions tell us about your choices?� How general can revealed preference be?
� Are these convincing?
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Dual of Maximizing Profit: Minimizing Cost
� Production Plan� Input z, Input Prices r� Cost Function
� Single output:
� Lemma: Gradient of the Cost Function
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Lemma: Input Price Change(Gradient of the Cost Function)
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Lemma: Input Price Change(Gradient of the Cost Function)
� Hence we have
� Note: Only Revealed Preferences + continuity� Recall Substitution Effect for Compensated
Demand:
� Producer ~ Consumer
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Proposition 4.2-1: Effect of Input Price Change on MC
� Consider the effect on MC:
� Hence, a rise in price of input j raises MC of output i iff input j is a normal input
� Recall (from Section 2.3):� (See also Income Effect)� Example: Quasi-linear Production
� (Quasi-linear utility with vertical IEP…)
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Proposition 4.2-2Convex Cost Function
� If the production set is convex, then the cost function is a convex function of outputs.
� (Compare: Concave Expenditure Function)
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Proposition 4.2-2Convex Cost Function
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Profit Function
� Production Plan:� Net output: Net input:� Profit:
� Profit Function (Maximized Profit):
� (Compare: Indirect Utility Function)
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Proposition 4.2-3: Price Change Effect on Inputs and Outputs
� Consider the producer problem
� (Compare: Compensated Price Change)� Proposition 2.3-1
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Proposition 4.2-3: Price Change Effect on Inputs and Outputs
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Corollary: First Laws of Supply and Input Demand
� This is true for any pair of price vectors� So, if only the price of commodity j changes,
� First Law of Supply:
� First Law of Input Demand:
� (Compare: Compensated law of demand)
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Proposition 4.2-4Convex Profit Function
� The profit function is convex.
� (Compare: Concave Expenditure Function.)� This is stronger than Prop. 4.2-3…� Note similar relation between 2.3-1 & 2.3-2� Is the Indirect Utility Function (quasi-)convex?� Yes! See Jehle & Reny (2001), p.28,Thm 1.6
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Proposition 4.2-4Convex Profit Function
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Application: SR vs. LR Adjustment to Price Change
� Firm face price , choose production plan� One (input or output) price changes� Assume firm’s feasible set more limited in SR
� Set of feasible LR plans:� Set of feasible SR plans:
� Le Chatelier Principle: Own price effects are larger in the LR than in the SR. i.e.
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Proposition 4.2-5:Le Chatelier Principle
� LR Profit Function: � SR Profit Function:
� SR constraints bind tighter (only if plan changes)
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Proposition 4.2-5:Le Chatelier Principle
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Proposition 4.2-5:Le Chatelier Principle
� Hence,
� Similarly,
� Since, � Hence,
� Note how similar this is to the first Lemma
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What Have We Learned?
� Cost Function (the Minimized Cost):� Input Price Change (Revealed Preference)� Normal Input (Input Price Effect on MC)� Convex Cost Function (Revealed Preference)
� Profit Function (The Maximized Profit):� First Laws of Supply (Revealed Preference)� First Laws of Input Demand (Revealed Preference)� Convex Profit Function (Revealed Preference)
� LR vs. SR: Le Chatelier’s Principle (RP too!)� Homework: Exercise 4.2-1~7
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What Have We Learned?
� Cost Function vs. Profit Function� Method of “Revealed Preferences” used in:1. Input Price Change2. First Laws of Supply3. First Laws of Input Demand4. Cost and Profit Functions are Convex 5. Le Chatelier Principle
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Producer vs. Consumer
� Profit � Profit Maximation� Cost� Cost Function � Profit Function� Input Price Change� First Laws of Supply
and Input Demand
� Utility � Utility Maximation� Expenditure� Expenditure Function� Indirect Utility Function� SE and IE� Compensated Law of
Demand