Price Adjustment Following an Increase in Marginal Cost
Following the principle of price-setting as a markup over costs, if the marginal cost of production rises by a specific factor (for instance, due to more expensive imported materials), firms will increase their final product prices by the same factor in order to preserve their profit margins.
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