Balance of Payments (BOP)

• An absolute advantage is when a manufacturer can provide a greater quantity of a product or service for the same price or the same quantity at a lower price than its competitors.

• Aggregate demand measures the total demand for all finished goods and services produced in an economy.

• All goods produced at a certain price in a certain period represent the aggregate supply.

• Autarky refers to a state of self-sufficiency and is commonly used to describe countries or economies that seek to reduce their dependence on international trade.

• The balance of trade (BOT) is the difference between the value of a country’s imports and exports over a given period and is the largest component of a country’s balance of payments (BOP).

• Base effect refers to the effect that the choice of base of comparison or benchmark can have on the result of a comparison between data points.

• The boom and bust cycle describes the alternating phases of economic growth and recession that characterize modern capitalist economies.

• The Bretton Woods Agreement and the system created a collective international currency exchange regime that operated from the mid-1940s to the early 1970s.

• A buyer’s market refers to a situation in which buyers have an advantage over sellers in price negotiations.

• The circular flow model demonstrates how money moves from producers to households and back in an endless cycle.

• Containment policies are macroeconomic instruments designed to combat economic distortions caused by an overheated economy.

Cost-push inflation occurs when general prices rise (inflation) due to an increase in the cost of wages and raw materials.#

• Cross elasticity of demand is an economic concept that measures the response of the quantity demanded of one good to a change in the price of another good.

• Cyclical unemployment is the effect of an economic recession or growth on the overall unemployment rate.

• When supply and demand are out of balance, creating market inefficiencies, there is a deadweight loss.

• It is believed that inflation is caused by various mechanisms.

• The dependency ratio is a demographic measure of the ratio of the number of dependents to the total working-age population in a country or region.

• The depression is characterized by a sharp decline in economic activity coupled with a sharp decline in growth, employment and output.

• Countries with relatively high levels of economic growth and security are considered advanced economies.

• Development economics is a branch of the economy whose purpose is to improve the financial, economic and social situation of developing countries.

• Desperate workers are workers who have stopped looking for work because they did not find suitable employment options or were not shortlisted when applying for a job. The causes of employee frustration are complex and varied.

• Dollarization is when a country begins to recognize the US dollar as a medium of exchange or legal tender, along with or instead of the national currency.

• Durable Goods Orders is a large-scale monthly survey conducted by the US Census Bureau that measures current industrial activity and is used by investors as an economic indicator.

• The Dutch disease is a short description of the paradox that occurs when good news, such as the discovery of large oil reserves, wreaks havoc on a country’s economy as a whole.

• An economic collapse is not part of the normal economic cycle of expansion and contraction.