BizPrep International Academy
BIZ 105: Micro & Macroeconomics Foundation
Deconstruct the fundamental economic engines governing international commerce. This course translates complex market structures, monetary policies, and consumer behavior profiles into live corporate navigation toolkits. Moving from microeconomic elasticity and pricing dynamics up to macroeconomic global indicator tracking, fiscal actions, and foreign trade mechanics, students build the exact frameworks needed to analyze environmental realities and protect corporate profitability.
Course Learning Objectives
- Deconstruct demand-supply equilibrium shifts and price elasticity parameters to optimize corporate revenues.
- Evaluate structural operational variances across perfect competition, oligopolies, and monopolies.
- Analyze core macroeconomic tracking datasets including GDP configurations, CPI metrics, and employment layers.
- Synthesize the corporate operational impacts of Central Bank monetary pivots and fiscal policy adjustments.
- Formulate strategic international expansion assessments by measuring foreign exchange exposure and trade rules.
Rigorous Evaluation Framework
Zero abstract memory testing or rote calculus derivations. Grades depend entirely on live marketplace pricing audits, macro country risk deep-dives, and verbal policy defense boards.
20%
Session 3 Evaluation
The Corporate Elasticity Brief
25%
Session 6 Midterm
The Market Structure Audit
20%
Session 9 Evaluation
The Monetary Impact Portfolio
35%
.Session 12 Final Exam
The Country Risk Expansion Playbook
12-Session Weekly Blueprint
Session 01
The Economic Core: Scarcity, Opportunity Cost, and Market Foundations
Concepts Navigating the core resource problems; The Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF); Deconstructing absolute vs. comparative advantage in corporate allocations.
Vocabulary Scarcity mechanics, opportunity cost, comparative advantage, resource optimization, marginal utility allocation.
Ethics & SDGs Managing severe global scarcity realities by designing sustainable, highly efficient production baselines (SDG 12).
Practical Lab Mapping out enterprise opportunity costs when selecting between automation tech or workforce expansions.
Session 02
Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium Mechanics
Concepts The drivers of consumer markets; Factors shifting demand vs. supply curves; How competitive pricing structures reach baseline equilibrium.
Vocabulary Market equilibrium, excess supply, demand determinants, law of diminishing returns, equilibrium price points.
Ethics & SDGs Analyzing the economic damage caused by black-market gouging on basic resource lines during supply shocks.
Practical Lab Simulating an aggressive real-time raw material disruption to recalculate retail consumer clearing prices.
Session 03
Price Elasticity Matrix and Revenue Optimization
Concepts Measuring market sensitivity; Unpacking Price, Income, and Cross-Price Elasticity; Connecting consumer price sensitivity directly to corporate revenue tracking.
Vocabulary Price elasticity of demand (PED), unitary elasticity, cross-price metrics, income elastic parameters, consumer surplus.
Ethics & SDGs Assessing the ethics of inelastic pricing strategies across essential pharmaceutical or food security supply fields.
Practical Lab Assessment (20%): The Corporate Elasticity Brief. Designing a pricing strategy for a premium SaaS tool facing new market competitors.
Session 04
Production Costs, Scale Efficiencies, and Profit Parameters
Concepts Tracking operational cash limits; Separating Fixed vs. Variable cost layers; Marginal Cost/Marginal Revenue metrics; Identifying economies vs. diseconomies of scale.
Vocabulary Total fixed costs, average variable cost, marginal revenue (MR), economies of scale, minimum efficient scale.
.Ethics & SDGs Mitigating local environmental destruction when pushing for mass manufacturing scale efficiencies (SDG 11).
Practical Lab Auditing a detailed logistics ledger to identify the exact tipping point where scale expands into operational inefficiencies.
Session 05
The Spectrum of Competitive Market Structures
Concepts Analyzing your competition layers; Moving from Perfect Competition to Monopolistic Competition, Oligopolies, and Monopolies; Mapping barriers to entry.
Vocabulary Monopolistic fragmentation, oligopoly pricing, game theory basics, cartel collusion, predatory barriers to entry.
Ethics & SDGs Evaluating how oligopolistic cartels squeeze consumer choice and harm low-income demographics (SDG 10).
Practical Lab Deconstructing a global airline or tech ecosystem to trace hidden game-theory pricing patterns.
Session 06
Midterm Diagnostics: The Market Structure Audit
Concepts Full microeconomic synthesis combining elastic pricing parameters, internal scale metrics, and competitive structural realities.
Vocabulary Complete command of all individual consumer, pricing, structural, and cost framework terminology from Sessions 1–5.
Ethics & SDGs Pinpointing antitrust vulnerabilities or predatory pricing behavior embedded inside a corporate scenario.
Practical Lab Midterm Assessment (25%): Students audit a failing microenterprise, mapping out its pricing adjustments and competitive market risks.
Session 07
Macro Engine Tracking: National Output and GDP Configurations
Concepts Measuring macro economic speed; Components of Gross Domestic Product (GDP); Nominal vs. Real growth metrics; Tracking systemic business cycles.
Vocabulary Real GDP, aggregate expenditure, consumption index, GDP deflator, macroeconomic contraction phase.
Ethics & SDGs Challenging standard GDP models by integrating green welfare indexes and inclusive human development metrics (SDG 8).
Practical Lab Unpacking a multi-year macroeconomic dataset to separate actual productivity output from inflationary expansions.
Session 08
The Inflation Threat, CPI Indexes, and Employment Layers
Concepts Tracking currency purchasing power erosion; Measuring Consumer Price Index (CPI) metrics; Cost-push vs. Demand-pull inflation; Types of unemployment.
Vocabulary Hyperinflation, core CPI basket, structural unemployment, wage-price spiral, stagflation indicators.
Ethics & SDGs Mitigating the severe wealth-stripping impact of core food inflation on lower-income demographics (SDG 1).
Practical Lab Re-pricing corporate long-term supplier agreements based on unexpected, sudden shifts in core wholesale CPI data.
Session 09
Central Bank Operations: Monetary Policy & Interest Architecture
Concepts Money supply mechanics; Central Bank control levers (Reserve requirements, open market shifts, discount rates); Quantitative Easing loops.
Vocabulary Monetary easing, prime interest rates, liquidity trap, reserve ratios, open market intervention.
Ethics & SDGs Analyzing the systemic wealth inequality side-effects of hyper-extended, ultra-low interest rate cycles.
Practical Lab Assessment (20%): The Monetary Impact Portfolio. Predicting corporate capital costs based on an aggressive Central Bank rate-hike announcement.
Session 10
Government Fiscal Interventions, Deficits, and Sovereign Debt
Concepts The power of state expenditure; Expansionary vs. Contractionary fiscal strategies; The crowding-out effect; Navigating sovereign debt loads.
Vocabulary Fiscal stimulus, discretionary spending, crowding-out effect, budgetary deficit, debt-to-GDP ratio.
Ethics & SDGs Balancing state austerity interventions with the protection of vital social welfare programs for vulnerable groups.
Practical Lab Stress-testing corporate industry forecasts against a sudden government corporate tax hike and infrastructure spending plan.
Session 11
Global Trade Barriers, Forex Markets, and Capital Flows
Concepts Managing open borders; Protectionism tools (Tariffs, trade quotas); Balance of Payments architecture; Foreign Exchange rate determinants.
Vocabulary Import tariff, trade protectionism, balance of payments, forex appreciation, currency depreciation risk.
Ethics & SDGs Upholding global fair-trade standards to prevent economic exploitation of manufacturing labor lines in developing economies.
Practical Lab Constructing a supply chain hedging model to shield an import operation from sudden foreign currency volatility.
Session 12
The Country Risk Expansion Playbook
Concepts Full micro and macroeconomics synthesis; Defending multi-layered market entry pitches under intense board panel questioning.
Vocabulary Mastery level integration of all micro elasticity, production scale, inflation tracking, and forex volatility vocabularies.
Ethics & SDGs Country expansions must maintain rigorous corporate compliance with localized environmental and equitable labor standards.
Practical Lab Final Assessment (35%): Students analyze an emerging market country file. They pitch a live 5-minute expansion assessment, defending their economic logic under board panel cross-examination.
Mandatory Academic Delivery Protocols
- Immersive Environments: Delivered 100% in English. Use comparative linguistic structural patterns to resolve concept confusion, never direct text translations.
- The 3rd Hour Rule: Slide decks are banned in Hour 3. This hour is reserved strictly for boardroom rhetoric, interactive debates, case analyses, or active pitching.
- Zero Homework Support: Instructors must never hand out direct answer sets. Students execute solutions using their diagnostic tool parameters.