August 23, 2022
In order to assist economics educators at all levels, we have created a website www.music4econ.com that houses economic interpretations of songs. Users can click on the […]
May 3, 2022
The Teaching Economics with Moneyball website (https://www.moneyballsimulator.info/) includes material we have identified, created, and collated over the years and includes updates to a simulator that can […]
March 22, 2022
The way monetary policy is implemented has changed. The Fed moved from a limited reserves regime, where reserves in the banking system are scarce, to an […]
January 1, 2022
The Becker DeGroot Marschak (BDM) mechanism is a widely-used technique to elicit subjects’ willingness to pay for ordinary consumer and environmental goods. In this article, I […]
January 1, 2022
The Walt Disney Company, and its subsidiaries, are responsible for some of the most popular movies in existence. One of the things that makes the classic […]
January 1, 2022
Costa Rica’s decision to eliminate its military and channel funds into environmental protection and public services has aided in its success. GDP per capita has grown, […]
January 1, 2022
This paper uses Netflix’s dystopian Korean-language drama series Squid Game (2021) to illustrate an active learning technique to support the teaching of game theory in undergraduate […]
August 3, 2021
We develop a series of publicly available interactive web-based modules and instructor materials to help students learn econometric concepts ranging from sampling distributions to omitted variable […]
August 3, 2021
Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) are useful for teaching how the microeconomic tools of consumer choice are related to key macroeconomic variables like inflation, real interest rates, […]
August 2, 2021
Over many semesters, our student evaluations indicate a desire for additional materials that enable the student to practice completing questions similar in style to questions on […]