The official CPI and bias part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
This activity aims for students to gain insights about the problems in measuring a price index.

Supply and Demand in the Context of Uber Surge Pricing part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
In this activity, students are asked to determine whether it is better to drive for Uber during busy times and in busy locations when and where surge pricing is in operation or instead to avoid these locations and ...

Protectionist versus Free Trade Policies part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Prior to class, students listen and read the following: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/china-eat-americas-jobs/. In this episode, Steven Dubner, Freakonomics host, interviews David Autor, an MIT economist, about ...

How do imports affect GDP? part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Imports are perhaps the most misunderstood portion of the GDP identity (Y=C+I+G+NX). This exercise uses real data to have students explore this issue and learn the nuance behind the numbers.

Identifying Market Structure in the Fast Food Industry part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
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.

Game Theory Simulation Exercise: Pricing Prisoner's Dilemma part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Student teams act as firms and make strategic pricing decisions. Each firms' profits depend on all of the teams' decisions.

Price Ceilings and Venezuela part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
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 ...

The Tax Game: What are fair and effective tax rates? part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Based on an online simulation teams choose from five tax regimes that each collect the same tax revenue but do so with different tax rates. Teams predict the impact of their tax choices and then, based on the ...

Examples of Price Discrimination part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
This application draws on student experiences as consumers in markets to elicit examples of price discrimination. The unusual reporting format provides a change of pace from the usual ABCDE format at the ...

Price Elasticity of Demand part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Teams are given a list of goods and asked to identify what they think are the most elastic and least elastic.