Economics for Managers

Economics Fundamentals

  • Fundamentals
  • Scarce Resources, Opportunity Cost, Trade-off, , Efficiency, Equity, Sunk Cost
  • Demand curve & Demand Schedule
  • Law of Demand
  • Supply curve and Supply Schedule
  • Law of Supply
  • Market equilibrium
  • Demand and Supply curve shifts
  • Difference between Demand & Quantity Demanded
  • Detailed Explanation on how to reach conclusions in Economics using Shifts in Demand and Supply Curve
  • Price Ceiling and Price Floor
  • Paradox of Thrift

Balance of Payments

  • Current Account
  • Capital Account
  • Forex Reserves
  • FDI v/s FDI
  • ECB
  • Meaning of BOP Crisis: 1991

Exchange Rate Determination

  • Fixed or pegged(China)
  • Floating(India)
  • Detailed explanation of how China manages currency
  • Explanation through Demand & Supply Curves
  • Why can’t India fix currency rate?

Application: Negative Oil Prices

  • Basic of Futures Contract
  • Why crude Oil futures reached -37.63 $ per barrel in April 2020

Application: Negative Interest Rate

  • World Upside Down
  • Countries with negative interest rates
  • Implications

Application: Game Theory

  • Prisoners’s Dilemma Basics
  • Prisoners’s Dilemma application to Business Competition
  • Prisoner’s Dilemma application in Covid-19 scenario
  • Diner’s Dilemma

What you will get?

Certificate of Completion acceptable at all B-schools

Prerequisites

Uninterrupted Internet Connection with a smartphone/Laptop.

Who is it for?

Must attend Workshop for anyone wishing to do PGP/MBA in any domain or Specialization.

Mode: Online – Microsoft Teams