{"id":536,"date":"2015-04-15T18:42:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T18:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu?p=536"},"modified":"2015-04-15T18:42:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T18:42:31","slug":"economies-of-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/2015\/04\/15\/economies-of-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Economies of scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Economies of scale<\/h1>\n<h2>Economies of scale in the European Union Law<\/h2>\n<p>Concept of Economies of scale provided by the &#8220;Glossary of terms used in EU competition policy&#8221; (Antitrust and control of concentrations, published in 2002): Economies of scale occur when firms achieve per unit cost savings by producing more of a good or service (that is, when average costs decrease as output increases). Such effects arise when it is possible to spread fixed costs over a higher output. Examples of scale economies are the bigger lorry that transports more while still requir-ing only one driver or the larger plant that does not require more spare parts to be kept in stock than the smaller plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economies of scale in the European Union LawConcept of Economies of scale provided by the &quot;Glossary of terms used in EU competition policy&quot; (Antitrust and control of concentrations, published in 2002): Economies of scale occur when firms achieve per unit cost savings by producing more [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,107],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}