Unemployment and Health Insurance Coverage part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Diego Mendez-Carbajo, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Students will search for data on unemployment and health insurance coverage, mapping them and underscoring the reasons for reductions in health insurance coverage when unemployment increases.

Firm's reaction to news about profits part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Phil Ruder, Pacific University
In this activity, students consider a firm's reaction to news reporting about the level of its profits. The exercise presents the puzzle of a firm's alarmed response to news of positive profits. The ...

Are Imports Bad for the Economy? part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Ishani Tewari, Curry College
Students learning the expenditure approach often conclude that "imports reduce GDP." The activity attempts to dispel this misconception and pushes students to think about imports as an accounting variable ...

Elasticity and tax incidence part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Shelby Frost, Georgia State University
The point of this AE is get students to understand how the relative price elasticities of supply and demand are what really determine who bears the burden of an excise tax.

The Civilian Unemployment Rate and the Natural Rate of Unemployment part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Laurence Malone, Hartwick College
The Unemployment Rate Activity Exercise helps students to appreciate the relationship between the Civilian Unemployment Rate and the Natural Rate of Unemployment, and how tight labor markets can benefit wage ...

Monopoly Power under Pharmaceutical Patents part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Carlena Ficano, Hartwick College
In this activity, students are asked to identify which among five pharmaceutical patent policy options they believe would be most likely to improve long term societal well being, with the policy options ranging ...

The government allowing a merger with high concentration to proceed part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
brian lynch, Lake Land College
Students will be asked to think critically and use higher-level thinking when presented with the conditions for a merger. Students are asked to evaluate which conditions on a proposed merger would best protect ...

Gross Private Domestic Investment Spending: Multipliers and Growth in the Real GDP part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Laurence Malone, Hartwick College
The Activity Exercise Gross Private Domestic Investment Spending: Multipliers and Growth in the Real GDP helps student grasp the significance of the Multiplier Effect in economic growth and the expansion of real ...

What are effective public policies for the heroin market? part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Mark Maier, Glendale Community College
Based on a supply/demand model with inelastic demand, student teams evaluate policy options for government intervention in the heroin market.

Monopoly, Monopsony, and Walmart part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Carlena Ficano, Hartwick College
This monopoly/monopsony activity first instructs students to consider Walmart as both a seller of goods and services and as a purchaser of goods and services. It then asks them to identify who from among a range of ...