Critical Mass Simulator
Explore how network-effect businesses move from slow early adoption to self-sustaining growth. Students adjust initial users, virality, churn, marketing and funding…
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18 economics & business simulations, guided investigations and challenges, mapped to the WA and Australian curricula, US standards and GCSE.
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Business Strategy & Management
Network Effects Investigation
A guided investigation into one-sided and two-sided network effects, platform balance, price effects versus network effects, negative network effects, and curation.
Porter's Five Forces Simulator
Investigate how Porter's Five Forces interact to influence company profitability and industry attractiveness. Adjust competitive pressures, explore interdependencies…
Value Creation & Capture Explorer
Investigate how firms create value for customers and capture value as profit. Explore the relationships between willingness to pay, price, cost, consumer surplus and…
Willingness to Pay Explorer
Explore how customers value products differently, how willingness to pay creates demand, and how firms can increase customer value. Investigate pricing, demand curves,…
Finance & Investment
Investment Committee Simulator
Take the role of a CEO or investment committee member and decide how to allocate capital across competing investment opportunities. Evaluate industry attractiveness,…
International Economics
Balance of Payments Classifier Challenge
A randomised transaction-classification challenge covering current account components, financial account flows, direct and portfolio investment, income flows, services,…
Current Account Calculator Challenge
A randomised calculation challenge where students calculate balance on goods and services, current account balances, capital and financial account offsets, and interpret…
Exchange Rates Challenge
A randomised challenge covering AUD depreciation/appreciation, demand and supply for currency, exchange-rate calculations, graph interpretation and sector impacts.
Foreign Investment Challenge
A randomised challenge covering foreign debt, foreign equity, net foreign liabilities, debt servicing, financial-account inflows and the relationship between foreign…
Free Trade & Protection Challenge
A randomised Year 11–12 economics challenge covering forms of protection, tariffs, subsidies, quotas, arguments for and against trade liberalisation, and the influence…
Tariff & Protection Simulator
Explore how tariffs affect domestic prices, imports, consumer and producer surplus, government revenue and deadweight loss using an interactive demand and supply model.
Macroeconomics
Aggregate Expenditure & Multiplier Challenge
A randomised challenge covering aggregate expenditure, MPC/MPS, the spending multiplier, AE=Y diagrams, stimulus calculations and AD component data interpretation.
Read the Economy
A real-data macroeconomic investigation where students interpret economic indicators, diagnose current economic conditions, make policy judgements and predict likely…
Markets & Microeconomics
Price Elasticity Challenge
A 10-question randomised elasticity challenge with multiple-choice, calculation and graph-reading questions. Answers are revealed only at the end.
Price Elasticity Guided Investigation
A step-by-step investigation into price elasticity of demand, showing how price, quantity and total revenue change across elastic, inelastic and unit-elastic regions.
Supply & Demand Challenge
A 10-question randomised supply and demand challenge with multiple-choice and graph-analysis questions. Answers are revealed only at the end.
Supply & Demand Challenge
A challenge-style supply and demand assessment with randomised multiple-choice and graph-interpretation questions covering shifts versus movement along a curve,…