Pearson Edexcel A Level Economics B Paper 2 2025 Qp

Download the official Pearson Edexcel A-Level Economics B Paper 2 question paper for the June 2025 examination series (9EB0/02). This examiner-authentic PDF contains the complete “Competing in the global economy” assessment together with the official source booklet used in the live Edexcel GCE A-Level Economics B examination.

The paper assesses advanced macroeconomic and global-economic understanding through contemporary case studies involving strikes, labour shortages, inflation, childcare costs, water-industry privatisation, and the economic impact of Brexit. Students must apply economic theory, diagrams, quantitative reasoning, contextual evidence, and evaluative judgement to realistic UK and international economic scenarios under authentic Edexcel exam conditions.

Section A focuses on labour markets, industrial action, skills shortages, childcare costs, real wages, and inflation in the UK economy. The source booklet examines junior doctor strikes, train-driver industrial action, labour shortages across the UK economy, skills gaps, childcare costs, frozen-food demand, and changing patterns of consumer spending during the cost-of-living crisis.

Students analyse concepts such as income elasticity of demand, aggregate supply, inflation, labour-market shortages, economically inactive workers, trade unions, professional bodies, international competitiveness, fiscal policy, and falling real wages. The paper also includes quantitative calculations involving changes in frozen-food demand using income elasticity of demand data and real-pay growth statistics between 2021 and 2022.

Questions explore the impact of strikes on productivity, consumer spending, inflationary pressures, and economic growth, alongside government policy measures designed to reduce childcare costs and increase labour-market participation. Students are expected to integrate contextual evidence from the source booklet into balanced evaluative essays supported by diagrams and chains of macroeconomic reasoning.

Section B focuses on the privatisation and regulation of the water industry in England and Wales. The source material examines the privatisation of water companies since 1989, Ofwat regulation, pollution externalities, sewage discharges, monopoly power, asymmetric information, water-industry profits, shareholder dividends, and environmental concerns linked to under-reporting of pollution events.

Students evaluate whether privatisation has created unintended economic consequences, including allocative inefficiency, regulatory failure, externalities, monopoly pricing, environmental degradation, and consumer impacts. The section also explores how regulators such as Ofwat, the Environment Agency, and the Drinking Water Inspectorate attempt to monitor and regulate water companies.

Section C focuses on the UK’s decision to leave the European Union and the economic consequences of Brexit. The source booklet includes analysis of the UK–EU Trade and Co-operation Agreement (TCA), rules of origin, tariffs, non-tariff barriers, border checks, balance-of-trade data between 2016 and 2023, and post-Brexit agricultural subsidy changes.

Questions require students to evaluate the impact of Brexit on UK trade, competitiveness, farming incomes, supply chains, border delays, imports, exports, tariffs, non-tariff barriers, labour mobility, and economic growth. Students must demonstrate balanced macroeconomic and international-trade analysis using contextual evidence from the official extracts.

The paper requires effective use of diagrams and economic theory involving aggregate supply, labour markets, trade barriers, monopoly power, externalities, inflation, and international competitiveness. Students are expected to integrate source-booklet evidence directly into analytical and evaluative essay writing in order to achieve higher-band marks.

This official Edexcel A-Level Economics B 9EB0/02 question paper is ideal for timed exam practice, mock examinations, classroom assessment, revision planning, independent study, and preparation for the 2026 A-Level Economics examinations. It helps students improve evaluative writing, contextual application, diagram analysis, and exam timing using authentic Edexcel assessment materials.

Teachers, tutors, sixth-form colleges, revision centres, home-schooled learners, and retake candidates can also use this paper to strengthen macroeconomic reasoning, labour-market analysis, trade-policy evaluation, privatisation analysis, and assessment-objective familiarity for A-Level Economics B.

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This document is designed for Pearson Edexcel A-Level Economics B students studying the 9EB0 specification. It is especially useful for Year 12 and Year 13 students preparing for the 2026 examination series who want authentic Edexcel macroeconomics and global-economy exam practice using official “Competing in the global economy” assessment materials.

The paper is also highly valuable for Economics teachers, tutors, sixth-form colleges, revision centres, home-schooled learners, and retake candidates who require official Edexcel exam-standard resources for mock examinations, classroom assessment, structured revision sessions, homework tasks, and exam-technique preparation. It supports stronger understanding of labour markets, inflation, childcare economics, privatisation, monopoly regulation, Brexit, trade barriers, and evaluative economic reasoning.