Business cycle, Managerial Economics



The business cycle is the tendency for output and employment to fluctuate around their long-term trends.  The figure below presents a stylised description of the business cycle.  The continuous line shows the steady growth in trend output over time, while the broken line indicate the actual output over the time period.

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Point A represents a slump, the bottom of a business cycle while point B suggests the economy has entered the recovery phase of the cycle.  As recovery proceeds the output rises to a point C above the trend path; we call this a boom.  Then as the line dips via D towards the trend line with output growing less quickly during the recovery and least quickly (perhaps even falling), during a recession.

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