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.

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 ...

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 ...

How prices are determined in the market part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
This AE is designed to get students thinking about how prices are determined in a market. It is based on common misconceptions that many students have about how prices are determined: that producers alone determine ...

Comparing Market Structures part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Working in predetermined teams of 4-5 students, teams will examine and identify the market structure for cell phone operating systems. After examining the current market structure, teams will be asked to analyze ...

Price insensitivity for branded EpiPen part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
This exercise asks student teams to select the most important reason that consumers are insensitive to price changes in the branded EpiPen epinephrine auto-injector based on a before-class reading of a news article ...

Oil Demand and Consumption part of Process of Science:Examples
Data modeling activity using oil reserve and consumption data. Students predict when oil reserves meet or exceed reserves.

Labor supply decisions for economics majors part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
In this exercise, students use the labor market model to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of pursuing a graduate degree versus entering the labor market.

Externalities, Public Goods, and Common Resources – Navigating the market equilibrium part of BASICS:Teaching Materials:The Wicked Problem of Water Quality in the Mississippi River Watershed:Course-Specific Exercises
Consider our new understanding of what makes water quality a "wicked problem" using the example of the Mississippi River Watershed. In particular, focus on the SDGs related to clean water & sanitation ...

Elasticity and tax incidence part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
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.