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.

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.

U.S. Fiscal Policy between 1991 and 2001
Natalia Smirnova, University of Connecticut
Based on the graph showing the United States Federal government current receipts (from taxation) and current expenditures from 1991 till 2001, students analyze contractionary fiscal policy implementation.

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

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 ...

What caused the housing bubble of the mid 2000s?
C. Lucy Malakar, Lorain County Community College
After learning about the Financial Crisis of 2008, students will debate which factor contributed most to the housing bubble and subsequent financial crisis.

Assessing Changes in the Labor Market
Brandon Sheridan, Elon University
This exercise allows students to collect real data on a topic that is usually one of the most popular in a Macroeconomics course -- the labor market! Students will go beyond rote calculation and definitions to ...