2023 Public Choice Society, March 16-18, Seattle, Washington
- Thursday, March 16
- 1:00pm – 6:30pm
- 2:00pm – 3:30pm
- 4:00pm – 5:45pm
- 5:45pm – 7:15pm
- 7:15pm – 11:59pm
- Friday, March 17
- 7:00am – 8:00am
- 8:00am – 9:30am *
- 9:30am – 10:00am
- 10:00am – 11:20am
- 11:20am – 12:50pm *
- 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 18
- 7:00am – 8:00am
- 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 – 2:45pm
- 2:50pm – 4:20pm *
- 4:20pm – 4:30pm
- 4:30pm – 6:00pm *
- 6:00pm – 7:30pm
- 7:30pm – 11:59pm
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Opening Plenary Session with Kevin Grier, Recipient of the Inaugural James M. Buchanan Distinguished Fellow Award
Session Chair:
David Skarbek
Session Organizer:
Edward Lopez
Friday, March 17, 2023
Institutions of Freedom
Session Chair:
Christian Bjørnskov
Session Organizer:
Christian Bjørnskov
Room: Greenwood
Institutions: Past, Present, and Criminal
Session Chair:
Henry Thompson
Session Organizer:
Henry Thompson
Room: Kirkland
Law and Economics 2
Session Chair:
Jason Aimone
Session Organizer:
Bryan McCannon
Room: Capitol Hill
Economic Development and Economic Calculation
Session Chair:
Julia Norgaard
Session Organizer:
Thomas Stratmann
Room: Leschi
Firms, Organizations, and Property Rights
Session Chair:
Louis Rouanet
Session Organizer:
Louis Rouanet
Room: Issaquah
Institutional Paradoxes, Failure, and Mistakes 1 - Honoring Peter C. Ordeshook
Session Chair:
Marek Kaminski
Session Organizer:
Marek Kaminski
Room: Ballard
Political Economy and Policy
Session Chair:
Ryan Yonk
Session Organizer:
Ryan Yonk
Room: Medina
Effects of Regulation on Business Success
Session Chair:
Sriparna Ghosh
Session Organizer:
Alicia Plemmons
Room: Metropolitan Ballroom A
Roundtable on Public Choice Research in Latin America
Session Chair:
David Skarbek
Session Organizer:
Edward Lopez
Plenary Session 2 with Jennifer Murtazashvili on Decentralization and Conflict
Session Chair:
David Skarbek
Session Organizer:
David Skarbek
Modeling Social Choice Rules and Their Effects
Session Chair:
Bernard Grofman
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Medina
Institutions and Regulation
Session Chair:
Vincent Carret
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Greenwood
Models of Rent-Seeking and Lobbying
Session Chair:
Theo Simon
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Kirkland
Formal Political Economy Theory
Session Chair:
Vlad Tarko
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Capitol Hill
Historical Political Economy II
Session Chair:
Robert Fleck
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Ravenna
Legal Institutions in Game-Theoretic Models
Session Chair:
Lottte Swank
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Issaquah
Labor, Occupational Regulation, and Economic Welfare
Session Chair:
Alicia Plemmons
Session Organizer:
Alicia Plemmons
Room: Leschi
Political Economy of Conflict and Crime
Session Chair:
Lucas Rentschler
Session Organizer:
Bryan McCannon
Room: Metropolitan Ballroom A
Eighth Annual Elinor and Vincent Ostrom Prize for Best Combined Paper and Presentation by a Graduate Student (Finalists TBD)
Session Chair:
David Skarbek
Session Organizer:
Edward Lopez
Tax Policy and its Consequences
Session Chair:
William B. Hankins
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Capitol Hill
Voting and Voters
Session Chair:
Alexander Billy
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Medina
Externality
Session Chair:
Elena Prenovitz
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Ravenna
Beyond Standard Models of Parties and Voters
Session Chair:
Anders Kärnä
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Greenwood
Education and Political Economy
Session Chair:
Maria Tackett
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Kirkland
Institutional Analysis: Energy and Environment
Session Chair:
Labanyalata Roy
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Leschi
Comparative Political Institutions
Session Chair:
Richard Jankowski
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Metropolitan Ballroom A
History of Political Economy
Session Chair:
Phil Magness
Session Organizer:
Ryan Yonk
Room: Ballard
Customary Authority, Indigenism, and the Governance of the Commons
Session Chair:
Lenore Ealy
Session Organizer:
Santiago Fernández Ordóñez
Political Economy and Health
Session Chair:
Rimvydas Baltaduonis
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Greenwood
Constitutions and Legitimacy
Session Chair:
Israt Jahan
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Kirkland
Political Economy and Climate Change
Session Chair:
Lookman Issa
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Leschi
Networks and Public Goods
Session Chair:
Matteo Pazzona
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Ravenna
Civil Society as Collective Choice
Session Chair:
Bonnie Wilson
Session Organizer:
Bonnie Wilson
Room: Capitol Hill
The Political Economy of State Interventions on Marginalized Communities
Session Chair:
Darwyyn Deyo
Session Organizer:
Thomas Stratmann
Room: Ballard
Institutional Paradoxes, Failure, and Mistakes 2 - Honoring Donald G. Saari
Session Chair:
Marek Kaminski
Session Organizer:
Marek Kaminski
Room: Medina
Regulation and Individual Decision-Making
Session Chair:
Yang Zhou
Session Organizer:
Bryan McCannon
Room: Metropolitan Ballroom A
Author Meets Critics: Let the People Rule by John Matsusaka
Session Chair:
Ekkehard Koehler
Session Organizer:
David Skarbek
Saturday, March 18, 2023
Pandemics and Public Policy
Session Chair:
Guanting Yi
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Kirkland
Voting Models in Theory and Practice
Session Chair:
Dylan Johnson
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Ballard
Fiscal Decentralization
Session Chair:
Tomomi Miyazaki
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Leschi
Exploring Alternatives in Social Choice Theory
Session Chair:
Andranik Tangian
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Ravenna
Political Economy and Land Use
Session Chair:
Vasyl Kvartiuk
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Medina
Institutional Capacity
Session Chair:
Chandan Jha
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Capitol Hill
The Political Economy of Innovation and Populism
Session Chair:
Caitlin Ainsley
Session Organizer:
Caitlin Ainsley
Room: Issaquah
Humanomics 1
Session Chair:
Ravi Roy
Session Organizer:
Ryan Yonk
Room: Greenwood
Political Constraints and Processes
Session Chair:
Justin Callais
Session Organizer:
Kevin Grier
Plenary Session 3 with Peter Boettke on the Past, Present, and Future of Public Choice
Session Chair:
David Skarbek
Session Organizer:
David Skarbek
Gender, Corruption, and Economic Performance
Session Chair:
Robin Grier
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Greenwood
Comparative Institutional Analysis
Session Chair:
Kim Leonie Kellermann
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Kirkland
Empirical Analyses of Institutions and Economic Growth
Session Chair:
Michal Brzezinski
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Capitol Hill
Appointment, Apportionment, and Voting as Decision Processes
Session Chair:
Jeff Milyo
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Ravenna
Reflecting on Public Choice Research
Session Chair:
Robert Mulligan
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Metropolitan Ballroom A
Property Rights and the State: Celebrating Yoram Barzel
Session Chair:
Anthony Gill
Session Organizer:
Anthony Gill
Room: Leschi
Irregular Transitions and Institutional Change
Session Chair:
Christian Bjørnskov
Session Organizer:
Christian Bjørnskov
Room: Issaquah
Humanomics 2
Session Chair:
Ryan Yonk
Session Organizer:
Ryan Yonk
Room: Medina
Communication and Persuasion in Politics
Session Chair:
David Waugh
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Awards Luncheon and Business Meeting
Session Chair:
David Skarbek
Session Organizer:
Edward Lopez
Institutions and Corruption
Session Chair:
Robert Gillanders
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Issaquah
Political Economy and Public Debt
Session Chair:
Rene Cabral
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Greenwood
Politics and Fiscal Policy
Session Chair:
Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Kirkland
Historical Political Economy I
Session Chair:
Robert Fleck
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Capitol Hill
Political Economy and Social Media
Session Chair:
Dmitriy Vorobyev
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Leschi
Organized Crime and Public Security
Session Chair:
Omar García Ponce
Session Organizer:
Omar García Ponce
Room: Metropolitan Ballroom A
Buchanan's Constitutional Economics
Session Chair:
John Meadowcroft
Session Organizer:
John Meadowcroft
Room: Ballard
Monetary Politics
Session Chair:
Bryan Cutsinger
Session Organizer:
Kevin Grier
Room: Medina
Institutions and Immigration I
Session Chair:
Josh Smith
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Technology, Media, and Corruption
Session Chair:
Labanyalata Roy
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Medina
Institutions and Immigration II
Session Chair:
Zeeshan Samad
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Ravenna
Fiscal Policy: Budgets and Regions
Session Chair:
Laiyang Ke
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Ballard
Policy and Entrepreneurship
Session Chair:
Abraham Song
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Greenwood
Empirical Political Economy: Africa and the Middle East
Session Chair:
Jozefina Kalaj
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Kirkland
Democracy and Performance
Session Chair:
Henry Moncrieff
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Issaquah
Historical Political Economy
Session Chair:
Ennio Piano
Session Organizer:
Ennio Piano
Room: Leschi
Crime, Conflict, and Policing
Session Chair:
Megan Erickson
Session Organizer:
Megan Erickson
Room: Metropolitan Ballroom A
Future Directions in Public Choice
Session Chair:
Ryan Yonk
Session Organizer:
Ryan Yonk