Petrol Station Stand-Off
Simulation to teach oligopoly, game theory, and the prisoner's dilemma through a petrol station pricing stand-off between two rival firms at a…
About this simulation
A 700-seat hall, a viral band, and four prices on the table. Students set a face-value ticket price under a municipal lease cap, choose a secondary-market policy, and visualise who captures the surplus — fans, promoter, artist, scalper, or platform — and where deadweight loss appears. Aha moment: total welfare barely moves across policies; the distribution shifts dramatically.
Who it is for
An introductory simulation that assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, designed for undergraduate courses. It also works in vocational and high-school programmes and in onboarding sessions.
How a session runs
- The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
- Participants play 3 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
- The simulation can be run in English, Español.
- The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.