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A Business Economist in an Indian FMCG company studies how the RBI's change in the repo rate may affect the company's borrowing cost and consumer demand over the next year. This shows that Business Economics:

This shows that Business Economics uses macroeconomic analysis, such as monetary policy and interest rate changes, to understand the external environment in which a firm operates and to forecast its costs and demand. It is mainly micro in focus but not limited to micro analysis.

  1. AIs confined to microeconomic analysis of the firm's internal costs
  2. BUses macroeconomic analysis to understand the external environment in which the firm operatesCorrect
  3. CIgnores government policy because it concerns only private firms
  4. DStudies only the past and cannot be used for forecasting

Explanation

Though mainly microeconomic, Business Economics draws on macroeconomic factors such as interest rates, inflation and policy to understand the business environment and forecast. The repo rate example is a macro variable affecting the firm. The option saying it ignores government policy is contrary to this.

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