Managerial Economics

Demand, costs, pricing, market structures and economic systems for better business decisions.

Tilted scale over a globe with trade flows, illustrating disequilibrium in the balance of payments
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Quick answer: Balance of payments disequilibrium happens when a country’s payments to the rest of the world do not match

Money flowing out of a treasury faster than exports bring it in, illustrating causes of balance of payments disequilibrium
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Quick answer: Causes of BoP disequilibrium include economic factors (trade deficit, domestic inflation, rapid development, overvalued currency, business cycles, commodity

Economist levelling a scale of exports and imports illustrating correcting balance of payments disequilibrium
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Quick answer: Balance of payments disequilibrium is corrected through automatic adjustment (exchange rates and prices) and deliberate measures. Monetary measures

National ledger with current, capital and reserve columns, illustrating balance of payments format
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Quick answer: The balance of payments records all economic transactions between a country’s residents and the rest of the world.

City split between public and private sectors joined by a bridge, illustrating a mixed economy
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Quick answer: A mixed economy combines private enterprise and market prices with state ownership, planning and welfare. Advantages: economic freedom

State planning office sharing goods equally among citizens, illustrating a socialist economy
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Quick answer: Advantages of a socialist economy: less inequality, basic needs covered, low open unemployment, rapid build-up of heavy industry,

Free-market street with a scale weighing wealth against hardship, illustrating pros and cons of capitalism
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Quick answer: A capitalist economy runs on private ownership, profit and free markets. Its advantages are efficient production, good use