Congratulations to Tiffin Girls School

Tiffin Girls’ School are celebrating their win in the 2008 Bank of England / The Times TwoPointZero competition. Many congratulations from everyone at Tutor2u. Read all about their triumph here

Flair for economics

1st: The Tiffin Girls’ School, Kingston-upon-Thames.
Nancy Chen, Georgia O’Donnell, Neshma Shah, Teresa Song

2nd: Loreto College, Coleraine, Co Londonderry

3rd: Leeds Grammar School, West Yorkshire

Other finallists: Peter Symonds College, Winchester, Hampshire; Tonbridge School, Tonbridge, Kent; Wolverhampton Girls’ High School, Wolverhampton

Now the attention switches to the Royal Economic Society’s Young Economist of the Year competition, there are just under two months to go before entries must be submitted for judging.

BMW - Bavarian Monopolist at Work [24 May 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Game Theory and Business Economics [21 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: The Importance of Productivity [20 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Revision Notes on Supply-side Policies [10 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Using the Cost-Benefit Principle [30 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Quiz on Market Structures [11 Apr 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Market Failure in Private Health Care [8 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Revision on Contestable Markets [8 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Monopoly and Economic Welfare [6 Apr 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Productivity Improvements in China [3 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Revision on Scale Economies, Technology and Prices [1 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: EU Imposes Further Price Cap on Mobile Phone Companies [29 Mar 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Focus on India - Supply Side Issues [25 Jan 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Oligopoly and Duopoly in Bus Markets [20 Dec 2011]
MON€Y PANIC$ – A Visualisation Challenge [18 Nov 2011]
LSE lecture: Darwin economy [13 Nov 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Examples of Price Discrimination in Action [31 Oct 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Ofcom gives stamp of approval for flexible pricing in mail [21 Oct 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Cotton Prices and the Retail Price of Clothing [13 Jul 2011]
Six Global Trends Shaping Business Strategy [15 Jun 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Supply-Side Policies [25 May 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Spare Capacity [23 May 2011]
AQA A2 Economics - European Context [23 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Competition Policy [20 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Oligopoly [20 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Entry Barriers in Markets [19 May 2011]
A2 Micro: The Importance of Profit [19 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Market Structure, Conduct & Performance [19 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Consequences of Price Discrimination [19 May 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Perfect Competition [19 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Competition and Efficiency [19 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Outsourcing [18 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Business Growth [18 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Innovation and Economic Policies [18 May 2011]
A2 Micro: EU Aviation - State Aid and State Ownership [28 Apr 2011]
Wiki Revision: A to Z on Monopoly [23 Apr 2011]
Key AS Micro Terms: Competition and Monopoly [17 Apr 2011]
Key AS Micro Terms: Economic Efficiency [16 Apr 2011]
Soap powder cartel leaves stain on colluders [13 Apr 2011]
AS Micro: Prices for New and Second Hand Cars [9 Apr 2011]
A2 Micro: Updates on Competition Issues [2 Apr 2011]
The New North - Population Shift [23 Mar 2011]
Timetric: Price convergence within the EU [13 Mar 2011]
Never Mind Plan B - Plan V needed for the UK Economy! [17 Feb 2011]
Fun Fact Friday! Economists and what they’ve said [13 Feb 2011]
Changes in Real Prices [24 Jan 2011]
Winner of the Fun Theory Competition [23 Jan 2011]
Tesco - Time to start a price war! [19 Jan 2011]
Economics Q&A: How might rising food prices affect food retailers and manufacturers in the UK? [16 Jan 2011]
HMV - another busted flush on the High Street [6 Jan 2011]
Firefox overtakes IE in the EU Browser Market [5 Jan 2011]
Legal Cooperation between Businesses [30 Dec 2010]
Supermarkets - Aunt Sallys or useful case study on economic agents’ behaviour? [22 Dec 2010]
Does Facebook have a monopoly over the internet? [21 Nov 2010]
The Rise and Rise of Internet Monopolists [14 Nov 2010]
Experimenting with Google Docs - the Rise of a Digital Conglomerate [8 Nov 2010]
Contestability in the online electricals market [2 Nov 2010]
Melting ice and teaching the effect of competition on profits [31 Oct 2010]
Extend and Enrich with EconoMax [29 Oct 2010]
A2 Micro: Monopoly Price and Output [28 Oct 2010]
Quangos can go [14 Oct 2010]
Competition in action: Google vs the World! [6 Oct 2010]
OFT limits ASDA’s expansion plans [23 Sep 2010]
Behavioural economics and competition policy [12 Aug 2010]
How much does an Economist get paid? [5 Aug 2010]
EC on IBM [2 Aug 2010]
Unit 2 Macro: How can supply-side policies help in a recession? [6 Jun 2010]
Brazilian aviation reaches new heights [25 May 2010]
Unit 3 Micro: Efficiency and Price Intervention in Markets [21 May 2010]
Record fines for tobacco price-fixing as cartel goes up in smoke [16 Apr 2010]
Broadband and economic growth [3 Apr 2010]
Ofcom bares its teeth [1 Apr 2010]
Price discrimination - Tesco and One Stop [22 Mar 2010]
UK CEOs on their recession strategies [23 Feb 2010]
Launch of the RES Essay Competition 2010 - Essay Titles Are Revealed [14 Feb 2010]
Find a stock market game that works [24 Jan 2010]
Chinese growth in words and pictures [21 Jan 2010]
Contestable Markets - Google launches the Nexus One [6 Jan 2010]
The steady (but inexorable) decline of a web monopoly [16 Dec 2009]
Macroeconomic stability [14 Dec 2009]
Tories plan break up of energy oligopoly [4 Dec 2009]
Price comparison sites… [29 Nov 2009]
Super fast food nation [26 Nov 2009]
GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer choose to collaborate on HIV drugs [3 Nov 2009]
Perfect Competition - Teacher Presentation [2 Nov 2009]
Human and social capital and pathways to prosperity [14 Oct 2009]
Kindlenomics [11 Oct 2009]
The Economist and the FT on Twitter [6 Oct 2009]
Price elasticity of demand for stamps [5 Oct 2009]
Explaining Creative Destruction [4 Oct 2009]
Hold the phone! [9 Sep 2009]
Oracle-Sun merger [3 Sep 2009]
Browser Wars! [1 Sep 2009]
Result of the 2009 RES Essay Competition [11 Aug 2009]
Microsoft to offer users a choice of browsers [26 Jul 2009]
LCD manufacturers are screened for price fixing [14 Jul 2009]
The New Economist Cinema Ad - Red Wires [10 Jul 2009]
Petrol price war breaks out [9 Jul 2009]
Windows for a new generation? [9 Jul 2009]
Unintended consequences of painkiller innovation [7 Jul 2009]

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