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.

U.S. Fiscal Policy between 2002 and 2019.
Natalia Smirnova, University of Connecticut
Based on the graph showing the United States Federal government current receipts and current expenditures from 2002 till 2016, students analyze expansionary fiscal policy implementation.

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 ...

Focusing on the useful of the U3 unemployment measure
brian lynch, Lake Land College
In-depth group discussion is vital for this critical and higher-level activity on the usefulness of the U3 statistic.

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.

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.

Why the AD Curve Slopes Downward
Ann Werboff, Northern Arizona University
Students will create a sequence of events for the three effects that determine the inverse relationship between price level and GDP that determine the shape of the Aggregate Demand (AD) curve. They will also be ...

What Causes Changes in the Unemployment Rate? Job Openings versus Labor Force Participation.
Farhad Ameen, SUNY Westchester Community College
Students will be given a hypothetical situation that will require them to engage in logical reasoning about different possible causes of unemployment (that is, change in job openings vs. change in labor force ...