Supply and demand shifters using local examples
Michael Levine, San Bernardino Valley College
This activity asks students to consider some common shifters of demand and supply and rank them based on what the think would have the greatest impact in the market. I specify local markets and a local branch of a ...

Does perfect competition exist?
Michael Levine, San Bernardino Valley College
In this exercise, students will discuss the reality or perfectly competitive markets. First students will consider the characteristics of a perfectly competitive market for goods and services and discuss how ...

A Mall Divided: Who wins and loses with increases in the minimum wage.
Michael Levine, San Bernardino Valley College
How are different stakeholders impacted by minimum wage changes? This activity instructs students to analyze as unique minimum wage situation to consider the impact on various stakeholders.

Price Elasticity of Demand
Doug McKee, Cornell University; George Orlov, Cornell University
Teams are given a list of goods and asked to identify what they think are the most elastic and least elastic.

Hi Sharks - Identifying Implicit Costs and Economic Profit on Shark Tank
Ezra Pugh, Glendale Community College
Students are asked to evaluate the Sharks' opinion of a business on Shark Tank. An entrepreneur thinks they are profitable, but they are not taking implicit costs into account. Should that be a deal breaker?

Are Imports Bad for the Economy?
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 ...

Fertility Rate and Constant GDP per capita
Diego Mendez-Carbajo, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Students will search for data on fertility rate and constant GDP per capita, mapping them and underscoring the reasons for lower fertility rates in richer countries.

US China Trade War - An Application of the AD/AS Model
Ann Werboff, Northern Arizona University
In this activity, students will analyze some of the events in the US China Trade War in 2018 using the AD/AS model and discuss the implications of tariffs.

Identifying Market Structure in the Fast Food Industry
Ezra Pugh, Glendale Community College
Students use data to determine whether the fast food industry more closely resembles a monopoly, monopolistic competition, or oligopoly, then decide whether regulation is warranted.

Price Ceilings and Venezuela
Elisa Queenan, Porterville College
This activity will examine a modern instance of price ceilings and the unintended consequences for the local economy. This activity details how the well-intended goal of a government can lead to disincentivizing ...