Every year, IBO selects “Excellent” Extended Essays for each subject among EEs submitted by IB Candidates around the world. They release them so that students and school teachers can refer to them.
Amongst Y1 pupils, some of you may have received basic instruction on EE, and if you have not started yet, you will start after this winter vacation. And there are many Y2 pupils who are busy finishing their EE right now, right?
In this post, for Y1 students who have chosen or will choose Economics as A subject, I will let you check out the “Excellent” Economics EE topics and research questions selected by IBO and help you formulate your own decent RQ.
The list of "Excellent" Economics Extended Essay RQs (2022-2017) by IBO
1. Tariffs and telecommunications in US & China (2022)
2. Abuse of monopoly power by Netflix in Singapore (2022)
3. How effective has state-owned Moscow Metro's pricing strategy been in reducing the negative externalities of car use in the city? (2021)
4. To what extent does the price discrimination affect the cost of borrowing in the online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending market in Hyderabad? (2020)
5. To what extent is it possible for there to be a welfare gain in Bexley as incomes fall? (2019)
6. To what extent has the restructuring of entrance fees in Sentosa, Singapore affected the demand for Sentosa Express Monorail? (2018)
7. What are the factors that affect the consumers’ demand for cabbage in two different localities in Busan, South Korea: Haeundae and Young-Do and how do they vary from each locality? (2018)
8. To what extent the rising COE prices affect the demand for new and used cards by the consumer population and hence affect the revenue generated by Singaporean economy for the period 2012-2016? (2016)
9. To what extent is the food court industry in the Orchard district of Singapore perfectly competitive? (2016)
10. To what extent has the opening of NTUC Fairprice branch in Block 347 resulted in monopolistic competition? (2015)
11. To what extent do Singapore's policies on car ownership and usage address the associated external costs? (2015)
12. How does the rise in excise tax affect the demand of Vodka in the capital of Estonia, Tallinn? (2014)
What characteristics do “Excellent” English A Extended Essay topics and RQs have in common?
A. Focused on one very ‘specific’ economic issue or policy. Because EE research is much longer and more in-depth than IA, students often make mistakes by choosing a topic that is too broad attempting to analyse multiple concepts or policies together, but when actually doing EE research, this is very challenging and causes the colour of EE to be lost.
B. The time period or industry or target stakeholders that researched are also very 'specific' in practice. Rather than conducting research on the U.S. government's policies targeting all Americans, very specifically, specific period of time e.g: 2019-2020, specific industry, e.g: electric car industry, specific stakeholders e.g: Americans in their 20s and 30s
C. And the ‘topic’ the students chose was worth studying. It is a topic that many people would agree is worthy of paying attention to and studying. And it is a topic that is convincing, realistic and persuasive when answering the question why the student chose this 'topic' in the reflection form.
If you go to the link below, you can actually read all of the EEs above. I recommend checking out one or two EEs that you may be interested in or that may be of help or reference.
Cheers!
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