2015 Public Choice Society, March 12-15, San Antonio Texas March 12-15, Hyatt Regency San Antonio Riverwalk
- Thursday, March 12
- 3:00pm – 7:00pm *
- 5:00pm – 6:30pm
- 6:30pm – 11:59pm
- Friday, March 13
- 7:00am – 8:30am
- 7:00am – 5:00pm *
- 8:00am – 9:30am *
- 9:30am – 10:00am
- 10:00am – 11:20am
- 11:20am – 1:30pm *
- 1:00pm – 2:30pm *
- 2:30pm – 2:40pm
- 2:40pm – 4:10pm *
- 4:10pm – 4:20pm
- 4:20pm – 5:50pm *
- 6:00pm – 11:59pm
- Saturday, March 14
- 7:00am – 8:30am
- 7:00am – 5:00pm *
- 8:00am – 9:30am *
- 9:30am – 10:00am
- 10:00am – 11:20am
- 11:20am – 11:30am
- 11:30am – 1:00pm *
- 1:00pm – 2:40pm
- 2:40pm – 4:10pm *
- 4:10pm – 4:20pm
- 4:20pm – 5:30pm
- 5:30pm – 7:00pm
- 7:00pm – 11:59pm
- Sunday, March 15
- 7:30am – 8:30am
- 8:30am – 10:00am *
- 10:00am – 10:30am
- 10:30am – 12:00pm *
Friday, March 13, 2015
Room: Rio Grande Foyer
Institutions & Well-Being I
Session Chair:
Daniel Bennett
Session Organizer:
Boris Nikolaev
Room: Rio Grande East
Markets and Institutions
Session Chair:
Kathleen Sheehan
Room: Garden Terrace #1
Experiments
Session Chair:
Joy Buchanan
Room: Garden Terrace #2
Employment and Retirement
Session Chair:
William B. Hankins
Room: Blanco
Agency and Hierarchy
Session Chair:
Renato Oliveira
Room: Frio
Gender and Discrimination: a Public Choice Approach
Session Chair:
Moshe Yanovskiy
Room: Mesquite
Charity and Public Choice
Session Chair:
Alexander Funcke
Room: Nueces
Interests, Rent Seeking and Models of Influence
Session Chair:
Bjoern Kauder
Plenary Session 1: Todd Sandler, University of Texas at Dallas and Past Recipient of Duncan Black Prize: "Collective Action: Fifty Years Later"
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
Keith Dougherty
Public Choice Behavioral Economics - Implications for Policy
Session Organizer:
Susan Dudley
Room: Nueces
Contributions to Pre-Modern Economic History
Session Chair:
Andrew Young
Session Organizer:
Andrew Young
Room: Rio Grande West
Institutions & Well-Being II
Session Chair:
Boris Nikolaev
Session Organizer:
Daniel Bennett
Room: Rio Grande East
The Political Economy of Law and Legislation
Session Chair:
Joshua Hall
Session Organizer:
Joshua Hall
Room: Blanco
Rule of Law Applications
Session Chair:
Benjamin Ogden
Room: Garden Terrace #1
Property Rights
Session Chair:
Alexander Salter
Room: Frio
Fiscal and Monetary Institutions
Session Chair:
Soomi Lee
Room: Mesquite
Electoral Models
Session Chair:
D. Marc Kilgour
Room: Rio Grande Center
The Inaugural Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Prize: Finalists' Presentations
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
Mario Villarreal
Maryland Collective Choice
Session Chair:
Keith Dougherty
Session Organizer:
Keith Dougherty
Room: Rio Grande Center
Tullock's Contributions I: Breadth of Public Choice - Sponsored by Liberty Fund
Session Chair:
Roger Congleton
Session Organizer:
Roger Congleton
Room: Rio Grande East
Liberty and Political Economy
Session Chair:
Ken Sagynbekov
Room: Nueces
Legislative Decisionmaking
Session Chair:
Mark Crain
Room: Blanco
Institutional Determinants and Institutional Quality
Session Chair:
Paul Dragos Aligica
Room: Garden Terrace #1
Rent Seeking
Session Chair:
Ryan Young
Room: Frio
Measuring the Impact of Regulation
Session Chair:
Lynne Kiesling
Room: Garden Terrace #2
Education and Opportunities
Session Chair:
Larry Kenny
Room: Mesquite
Lotteries
Session Chair:
Steven Brams
Institutions & Well-Being III
Session Chair:
Daniel Bennett
Session Organizer:
Boris Nikolaev
Room: Rio Grande East
Public Choice and the Fiscal Constitution
Session Organizer:
Georg Vanberg
Room: Nueces
Regulation 2
Session Chair:
Patrick McLaughlin
Room: Blanco
Creative Destruction and Economic Transformation
Session Chair:
Leone Leonida
Room: Frio
Taxes 1
Session Chair:
Michael Stroup
Room: Garden Terrace #2
Financial Regulation
Session Chair:
Daniel Arce
Room: Mesquite
Voters and Candidates
Session Chair:
Stanley Winer
Room: Garden Terrace #1
Understanding International Challenges
Session Chair:
Thi Kim Cuong PHAM
Room: Rio Grande Center
Models of Political Behavior
Session Chair:
Robi Ragan
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Room: Rio Grande Foyer
Institutions
Session Chair:
Danko Tarabar
Session Organizer:
Joshua Hall
Room: Garden Terrace #1
Entrepreneurial Governance
Session Chair:
Lotta Moberg
Session Organizer:
Lotta Moberg
Room: Rio Grande West
The Third Sector: Insights from the Ostroms’ Public Choice Institutionalism Perspective
Session Chair:
Lenore Ealy
Session Organizer:
Paul Dragos Aligica
Room: Nueces
Egoism, Altruism, and Public Choice
Session Chair:
Onkar Ghate
Session Organizer:
Onkar Ghate
Room: Rio Grande Center
Handbook of Social Choice and Voting: Related Papers
Session Chair:
Nicholas Miller
Session Organizer:
Nicholas Miller
Room: Blanco
Public Choice Insights for Regulatory Reform
Session Chair:
Lynne Kiesling
Session Organizer:
Susan Dudley
Room: Frio
Environmental Dilemmas
Session Chair:
Tracy Snoddon
Room: Mesquite
Corruption, Trust, and Economic Freedom
Session Chair:
Dennis Coates
Plenary Session 2: Carl Schramm, Ewing Marion Kaufmann Foundation: "Entrepreneurial Justice and Public Choice"
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
Roberta Herzberg
Formal Models of Political Institutions
Session Organizer:
Georg Vanberg
Room: Rio Grande Center
Tullock's Contributions II: Rationalizing Scientific Inquiry - Sponsored by Liberty Fund
Session Chair:
Nicolaus Tideman
Session Organizer:
Roger Congleton
Room: Nueces
50 Years of the Logic of Collective Action: New Applications - Sponsored by The William E. Simon Professorship of Political Economy at Lafayette College
Session Chair:
Jac Heckelman
Session Organizer:
Jac Heckelman
Room: Rio Grande West
William Shughart's Taxing Choice: 17 Years Later
Session Chair:
Adam Hoffer
Session Organizer:
Adam Hoffer
Room: Frio
Party and Legislative Decisions
Session Chair:
Bernard Grofman
Room: Mesquite
Public Finance and Leviathan
Session Chair:
Benjamin Powell
Room: Garden Terrace #1
Roundtable Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of Classics of Social Choice by Arnie Urken and Iain McLain
Session Chair:
Edward Lopez
Room: Garden Terrace #2
Christian Perspectives on Cronyism and State-Run Enterprises
Session Chair:
Anne Bradley
Session Organizer:
Anne Bradley
Awards Luncheon
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
Edward Lopez
Health Economics
Session Chair:
Joshua Hall
Session Organizer:
Joshua Hall
Room: Rio Grande East
The Legacy of Thomas Borcherding (1939-2014)
Session Organizer:
Soomi Lee
Room: Rio Grande Center
50 Years of the Logic of Collective Action: Extensions and Criticisms
Session Chair:
Jac Heckelman
Session Organizer:
Jac Heckelman
Room: Blanco
Economic Thought in Public Choice
Session Chair:
David Levy
Room: Garden Terrace #1
Fiscal Policy
Session Chair:
Nimah Mazaheri
Room: Garden Terrace #2
Social Welfare Policy
Session Chair:
Meg Patrick Tuszynski
Room: Rio Grande West
Political Economy of Fiscal Policy
Session Chair:
Stephen Coate
Room: Nueces
Democracy and Economics
Session Chair:
Aziz Berdiev
Room: Mesquite
Prospects for Reforming Deficits and Debt
Session Chair:
Edward Lopez
Session Organizer:
Peter Calcagno
Plenary Session 3: Charlie Plott, California Institute of Technology and Society Past President, "Committee Karate: Machiavilli Joins Public Choice?"
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
Roberta Herzberg
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Innovation and Political Economy
Session Chair:
Michelle Vachris
Session Organizer:
Joshua Hall
Room: Rio Grande West
Room: Rio Grande Center
Crime and Vice
Session Chair:
Paola Suarez
Room: Nueces
The Economics of Corruption
Session Chair:
Joaquin Artes
Room: Frio
Public Choice in Markets
Session Chair:
Alexandre Padilla
Handbook of Social Choice and Voting: Sample Chapters
Session Chair:
Jac Heckelman
Session Organizer:
Nicholas Miller
Room: Rio Grande West
Understanding Individuals
Session Chair:
Richard Salsman
Room: Rio Grande Center
Polycentrism, Federalism, and the Anticommons
Session Chair:
Yong Yoon
Session Organizer:
Yong Yoon
Room: Nueces
Panel Studies in International Political Economy
Session Chair:
Martin Rode
Room: Frio
Public Corruption
Session Chair:
Jennifer Dirmeyer
Session Organizer:
Joshua Hall