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Modeling Economies of Scale with Fixed Costs
The economic advantage of scale can be formally demonstrated through a model that incorporates a firm's fixed costs. Such a model illustrates that as production output increases, these fixed costs are distributed over a larger number of units, which in turn causes the average cost per unit to decline, showing why scale is important.
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