- 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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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...
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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...
- 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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protection laws).
These adverse effects can
cause diseconomies of scale.
Another source of
agglomeration diseconomies—higher
crowding and
increased waiting time—can...
- 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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Leopold Kohr
published The
Overdeveloped Nations: The
Diseconomies Of
Scale in 1977. Over
development is
characterised by hyperconsumption...
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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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which results in the
lowest production costs per unit of output. If only
diseconomies of
scale existed, then the long-run
average cost-minimizing firm size...
