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Causes for diminishing returns to factor

What are the causes for diminishing returns to factor?

Answer:

1) Over utilization of fixed factors: As more and more units of the variable factor carries to be joined with similar fixed factor, the fixed factor gets over employed.

2) Imperfect factor substitution: More and more of variable factor can’t be continuously employed in place of fixed factor.

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