This classroom exercise illustrates the strengths and weaknesses of various regulatory frameworks aimed at internalizing negative externalities from pollution. Specifically, the exercise divides students into three groups - the government regulatory agency and two polluting firms - and allows...

In this paper, results from a classroom experiment are analyzed using both MLE and Bayesian Methods. A pop-up review quiz was given to students to test their understanding of microeconomic concepts. After the test, a related economics taboo game where performed in class. Soon after the games...

We have developed a computerized version of Charles Holt’s classical market game that can be used even in classes with a large audience. The Pit market game gives students intuitive access to the interaction of supply and demand in real-world markets. Even though trade can take place at...

In a public good experiment, the paper analyses to which extent individuals with economic education behave differently in a second-order dilemma. Second-order dilemmas may arise, when individuals endogenously build up costly institutions that help to overcome a public good problem (first-order...

Die Beiträge diskutieren die Belastbarkeit der Prinzipien Disziplinarität und Transdisziplinarität am Exempel der sozio

Seit vielen Jahrzehnten wird in Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik die Frage diskutiert, ob und in welcher Form ökonomische Bildung ein integraler Bestandteil von Allgemeinbildung sein soll. Im Vergleich zu Schulfächern wie beispielsweise Geschichte, Erdkunde, Musik oder Biologie ist die...

Ökonomische Bildung 1.0 vermittelt Wirtschaftskunde. Ökonomische Bildung 2.0 vermittelt die sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektive ökonomischen Denkens. Es geht um Theorie-'Bildung'. Zentral hierfür ist die spezifisch ökonomische Denkfigur nicht-intendierter Folgen intentionalen Handelns. Sie...