Characteristics
Profit Maximization
Economic Profit & Loss
Firm entry/exit
BAMP Program Facts
100

This market structure has many sellers, standardized products, and easy entry and exit:

Perfect competition


100

Where is the profit maximizing point?

MR = MC

100

Total revenue is calculated using this formula.

P x Q

100

When firms earn profit in perfect competition, new firms tend to do this

Enter the market

100

What does the acronym GASP stand for?

Generally Accepted Scinto Principles

200

In perfect competition, firms are considered ___________ because they cannot control market price.

Price takers

200

As long as MR is greater than MC, a firm should do this.

Continue producing

200

What is another name for 0 economic profit?

Normal profit

200

When firms experience losses in perfect competition, firms tend to do this

Exit the market

200

What are you getting on the AP exam?

55

300

In the long run, perfect competition firms earn this amount of economic profit

Zero economic profit

300

When is a producer productively efficient

Operating at the minimum point of the ATC

300

What is the breakeven point?

MC = ATC
300

Profit causes firms to _______ the market and the industry supply curve shifts to the _______

Enter; right

300

Which BAMP course fulfills the Financial Literacy requirement?

AP Microeconomics

400

In perfect competition, MR, AR, D, and ____ are all equal

Price (P)

400

When is a consumer is allocatively efficient

P = MC

400

Loss per unit is measured by the distance between these two values

ATC and MR

400

Loss causes firms to _______ the market and the industry supply curve shifts to the _______

exit; left

400

What is the full name of the course you are taking next year with Ms. Bendik?

Honors Business Law & Entrepreneurship

500

Describe the demand curve for a perfectly competitive firm

Perfectly elastic demand

500
What does it mean if a producer is productively efficient

They are minimizing their costs

500

In the short run, firms can continue operating as long as price covers this cost.

AVC (average variable cost)

500

When firms exit the market, what happens to the market price?

It increases

500

What year did Mr. Scinto start teaching at MHS?

1982

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