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The socially optimal firm size is the size for a company in a given industry at a given time which results in the lowest production costs per unit of output.
Specifically it has once more become economically optimal to seek a division of labor, or seek vertical disintegration, rather than integrate. [1] As minimum efficient scale falls firms size should fall as well. When firm size is viewed as firm activity undertaken, this holds true. [7]
For instance, if the minimum efficient scale is small relative to the overall size of the market (demand for the good), there will be a large number of firms. The firms in this market will be likely to behave in a perfectly competitive manner due to the large number of competitors. [ 4 ]
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It compares a firm's price of output with its associated marginal cost where marginal cost pricing is the "socially optimal level" achieved in market with perfect competition. [41] Lerner (1934) believes that market power is the monopoly manufacturers' ability to raise prices above their marginal cost. [42]
There are two main standards of thought on economic efficiency, which respectively emphasize the distortions created by governments (and reduced by decreasing government involvement) and the distortions created by markets (and reduced by increasing government involvement).
If the firm is a perfect competitor in all input markets, and thus the per-unit prices of all its inputs are unaffected by how much of the inputs the firm purchases, then it can be shown that at a particular level of output, the firm has economies of scale (i.e., is operating in a downward sloping region of the long-run average cost curve) if ...
A study of firms in France illustrated how distortions to the number of employees and size of a firm directly impacts levels of productivity, wage and welfare within the organisation. Firms with at least 50 workers are subject to a number of additional regulations, which leads some firms to stay below the 50-worker threshold.