You are asked to submit a short paper. The goal of this assignment is to pick some form of strategic interaction and model it as a game. You need to clearly describe the interactions and any questions guiding your analysis, describe a game and analyze the game. Highlight what the your analysis teaches us about the problem. You may pick any topic. In the past I have received excellent papers on a range of topics from: How to broker a peace deal in the Middle East to how pitchers select what pitch to throw, to how roommates decide who takes out the garbage, to how students rush a fraternity, to how a convenience store owner and potential pick-pocket interval. Projects can be analyzed with graphs, algebra, numeric methods. You may chose to focus on normal form or extensive form games. You may assume that there is no private information or you may decide that this is an important element of the problem. Please submit a paper of no more than 3 typed pages (reasonable margins and font) as well as up to 2 additional pages of graphs, tables, calculations, derivations.

It would help a lot if I could just get a few ideas about what to form a game around. Thank you.