Several current issues in economics are centered on scheduling and matching problems, notably including the 2012 Nobel Prize winning work. Such problems usually lie outside the scope of most undergraduate courses. The authors present a relatively simple problem that can be used to introduce the...

In this paper, we examine a modied 2 x 2 game of Hex in which control of each cell is determined by a Tullock contest. The player establishing a path of cells within his control between his two sides wins a fixed prize. Examining the polar cases of all cells being contested simultaneously versus...