Economics · Macroeconomics

GDP Detective — What Counts and What Doesn't

Investigative simulation in the Republic of Costaria. Round 1: classify 24 real-world transactions as in or out of GDP and assign their canonical value.

25 rounds Undergraduate English, Español

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About this simulation

Investigative simulation in the Republic of Costaria. Round 1: classify 24 real-world transactions as in or out of GDP and assign their canonical value. Round 2: build the Minister's Second Number by selecting which household, informal, volunteer and environmental adjustments to apply. Teaches the SNA conventions, the three GDP approaches, and the GDP-vs-welfare distinction.

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

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 25 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results. The first round opens with: The Minister Second Number.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Include — counts in GDP
  • Exclude — not in GDP
  • Value to count (CO$)
  • Which approach captures it best?

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Detective Decision
  • Case Log

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Macroeconomics.

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