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ECONOMICS Marginal Benefits Versus Marginal Costs

ECONOMICS Marginal Benefits Versus Marginal Costs. I. Marginal Analysis - Definitions. Marginal Benefit –the change in total benefits arising from a given choice. Marginal Cost –the change in total costs arising from a given choice. Marginal Analysis for Profit Maximizing Firm.

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ECONOMICS Marginal Benefits Versus Marginal Costs

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  1. ECONOMICS Marginal Benefits Versus Marginal Costs

  2. I. Marginal Analysis - Definitions • Marginal Benefit –the change in total benefits arising from a given choice. • Marginal Cost –the change in total costs arising from a given choice.

  3. Marginal Analysis for Profit Maximizing Firm • Note first that firms maximize Economic Profits not Accounting Profits Accounting Profits= Total Revenue- Accounting Costs Economic Profits= Total Revenue- Economic Costs where Economic Costs include opportunity costs

  4. Opportunity Cost - Definition The cost of the explicit and implicit resources that are foregone when a decision is made OR the cost of using resources for a certain purpose in terms of the benefit given up by using them in their best alternative way.

  5. Marginal Analysis for Profit Maximizing Firm • Marginal Benefit of a firm’s decision is the change in Total Revenue attributable to that decision. • Marginal Cost of a firm’s decision is the change in Economic Costs attributable to that decision.

  6. Example 1: Coffee Shop • Steve Mason works as a lawyer in Chicago and owns a two-story Brownstone. He currently lives on the second story of his Brownstone and leases the first floor out to a travel agency. Steve makes $60,000 per year as a lawyer, pays $80,000 per year in mortgage payments on the Brownstone and leases the first floor for $100,000 per year.

  7. Example 1 (cont.): Coffee Shop • Steve is deciding whether to quit is job and open a coffee shop on the first floor of his Brownstone (instead of leasing the space to the travel agency). Steve expects the coffee shop’s labor costs to be $40,000 per year and supplies to cost $50,000 per year. What is the minimum expected revenue the coffee shop must generate in order for Steve to quit his job as a lawyer? What assumptions do you need to make?

  8. Example 2: 12-27-19 Pinstripe Bowl • Suppose you attended the Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium in New York City– MSU versus Wake Forest. You purchased a plane ticket for $600, bought a ticket for $300 and booked a hotel room for $500. You are standing in the parking lot of the Pinstripe Bowl right before kickoff and a scalper offers you $1200 for your ticket. Do you take it? What does it depend on?

  9. PINSTRIPE BOWL Scalper Here you are.

  10. Time Value of Money • Suppose the interest rate (i) is 10%=0.10 • What is $200 today worth in three years? • Let FV be the Future Value and PV be the Present Value … • FV=PV (1+i) T • FV= 200 (1+0.10)3 • FV= $266.20

  11. Time Value of Money • Suppose the interest rate (i) is 10%=0.10 • What is the PV of $100 in 2 years? • Let PV be the Present Value… • FV=PV (1+i)T so PV=FV/(1+i)T • PV=100/(1+0.10)2 PV=$82.64

  12. Time Value of Money • Generally, what is the PV of $100 in T years if the interest rate is i? PV=100/(1+i)T • What is the PV of $100 in T years and $150 in Z years if the interest rate is i? PV=100/(1+i)T+150/(1+i)Z

  13. III. Marginal Analysis and the Time Value of Money • Often, some of the benefits and costs associated with a given decision/action occur in the future.

  14. Example 3: Skaneateles Bar • Sherwood Inn is a bar on Skaneateles Lake (one of the Finger Lakes in Upstate New York). The manager of Sherwood is deciding whether to buy a large tent for the 4th of July (when the town has fireworks over the lake). The manager would use the tent each 4th of July for a beer garden and expects the tent to last three years. The manager also expects that he would be able to increase the number of drinks sold each July 4th by 2,000. Suppose the price of a drink is $3, the cost of the ingredients in each drink is $1 and that the manager would have $1,000 more in labor costs if he has the beer garden. If the annual interest rate is 10%, what is the maximum the manager is willing to pay for the tent?

  15. Example 4: My Mom • My mom owns a house in the Chicago suburbs which is currently worth $200,000. If she sells the house, she would rent another place in the suburbs for $15,000 a year which she has to pay at the beginning of the year. Suppose that the expected appreciation on the house is 5% annually. Let the interest rate be 10% annually and assume my mom is indifferent between living in her current house or renting (except for the cost issue). What is the maximum annual maintenance cost on the house my mom should be willing to pay? If the annual maintenance cost is greater than this amount, my mom would choose to rent. Assume the maintenance cost is paid at the end of the year.

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