Academic partner
StudyScope
StudyScope supports students through academic resources and mentorship pathways designed to help bridge secondary and post-secondary learning.
2026 event archive Event date passed
Economics Competition
Trade, negotiate, and learn through a live mock economy where every resource decision changes the value a team can build.
Make the trade. Read the economy.
The simulation asked teams to manage limited resources, negotiate with other players, and connect the choices made in the game to economic ideas during a guided debrief.
- Trade
- Negotiate
- Learn
- Simulation
- About 1 hour
- Debrief
- 15–30 minutes
How the simulation worked
Luban’s Economics Competition placed teams inside a live mock economy. Students had to turn classroom concepts into decisions, react to other teams, and then examine the economic patterns created by the game.
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Resource management
Allocate limited resources and adjust budgeting decisions as conditions inside the simulation change.
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Active negotiation
Trade with other teams, secure needed components, and look for agreements that create value.
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Economic debrief
Connect the game to scarcity, supply and demand, inflation, negotiation, and strategic behaviour.
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Published prizes
The 2026 event materials stated that cash prizes were part of the competition; amounts were not published.
Event partners
The published 2026 event page identified StudyScope and the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education as Luban partners for the competition.
Economic capability partner
CFEE
The Canadian Foundation for Economic Education is a non-profit, non-partisan organization working to improve economic capability, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship development.
Published 2026 schedule
This timetable records the plan shown for June 27, 2026. The event date has passed, so the sequence is presented as an archive rather than a current registration schedule.
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Onboarding
Welcome and setup
The published plan opened with coordinators, game mechanics, interface controls, and team alignment.
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Simulation
Live economy begins
Teams were scheduled to run trade cycles, purchase resources, negotiate, and build value for about one hour.
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Tally
Values and analysis
The schedule reserved time to record final team values and prepare the simulation results for discussion.
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Debrief
Economic concepts
The planned debrief connected scarcity, supply and demand, negotiation, and strategy to decisions made in the game.
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Wrap-up
Winners and takeaways
The published plan closed with winner announcements, prize information, and the main lessons from the simulation.
Find current Luban opportunities
This page is an archive of the June 2026 competition. Return to Events for current teaching sessions and future program updates.