Page explaining the effect of supply-side shocks on the economy and how central banks can respond. The resource combines text, charts, interactive simulations, and self-test questions with immediate feedback. Through the in-browser simulations, readers can see the results of different interest rate changes. It ends with prompts for further discussion.
Syllabus, lecture slides and assignments (solutions obtainable from the author by email) from "a second year graduate course on financial frictions in macro" with 15 lectures in total.
TIER stands for Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research: a set of standards for teaching reproducible research. This page lists downloadable course material from a variety of UG and PG economics courses in the US that include TIER materials.
Advice for teaching inclusively, focusing on topics including promoting a growth mindset, inclusive class discussion, and diversifying examples. The site arises from the work of the AEA Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession and also contains study advice for students.
Video clips from Netflix shows, hosted on Critical Commons, are associated with notes and reflection questions related to areas of Economics. The shows are drawn from all over the world, including Money Heist (Spain), Squid Game (South Korea), and Queen Sono (South Africa). The database can be browsed by show or by area of economics and there are notes for teachers.
A set of materials in development to support microeconomics. The main content is a set of online numerical quizzes (with randomised parameters) and a downloadable set of SCORM packages for import into virtual learning environments.
Syllabus, lecture slides, and dissertation assignment from a course given in 2023 which uses Koyama and Rubin's 2022 book "How the World Became Rich."
A pair of interactive, annotated graphs showing 1) the demand function and 2) costs and revenue for a seller of cakes. Sliders allow the user to change different parameters of the market and see the curves shift. The reader is directed to see which of the parameters have most effect on the maximum profit and on its optimising price.
Fourteen interactive graphs, created on the free Geogebra platform, illustrating core microeconomic principles including supply and demand, production costs, and elasticity. Each graph has sliders that shift the graph and change the calculated values. The variables are not explained in the page, so these graphs are for use for teachers in explaining the graphs, as an improvement over static slides.
Five-minute animated video explaining the Tragedy of the Commons and applying it to situations including pollution and water usage. The lesson comes with a short self-test quiz and some links to related resources.
Five-minute animated video explaining the practice of overbooking, working through a numerical example that illustrates maximisation of a revenue function. It also discusses the randomness of customers not appearing and the binomial distribution of their number. The lesson includes a self-test quiz and links to text versions and interactive views of the calculation.
Five-minute animated video explaining poverty traps and discussing the design of benefit programmes. The lesson comes with a self-test quiz and a short text with links to related readings.
