2013 Conference Program Details

2013 Conference Program Details

Thursday, March 7, 2013

3:00pm – 7:00pm

Registration Desk

Friday, March 8, 2013

7:00am – 8:00am

Registration Desk / Continental Breakfast


8:00am – 9:30am

Experimental Economics 1: Legislative Bargaining

Economic Education and Public Choice

Entrepreneurship and Public Choice

Political Economy of Voting

Values and Preferences of Voters

Applications in Consumer and Voting Theory

Education Policy

Local Effects of Fiscal Federalism


9:30am – 9:45am

Break


9:45am – 11:00am

Plenary Session 1: Virginia Political Economy With a Special Tribute to James M. Buchanan


11:00am – 11:15am

Break


11:15am – 12:45pm

Panel Discussion of The Clash of Economic Ideas by Lawrence H. White and Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers by Wayne A. Leighton and Edward J. Lopez

Contests

Theory of Voting

Political Budget and Business Cycles

Informal Markets and Tax Evasion

Political Economy of Health Policy

Citizen Control and Social Rationality

Charter School Law Ð Major Research and Policy Issues

Applications of Formal Models


12:45pm – 2:00pm

Lunch on own


2:00pm – 3:30pm

Formal Models of Judicial Politics

Public Choice and Higher Education II

Empirical Political Economy

Formal Models of Information and Knowledge

Development and the Size of Government

The Economics and Politics of Macroeconomic Policy

Corruption Evidence

Institutions and Fiscal and Political Outcomes


3:30pm – 3:45pm

Break


3:45pm – 5:00pm

Plenary Session 2: The Bloomington School of Political Economy With Special Tributes to Vincent and Elinor Ostrom


5:00pm – 6:30pm

Cocktail Reception

Saturday, March 9, 2013

7:00am – 8:00am

Registration Desk / Continental Breakfast


8:00am – 9:30am

Experimental Economics 2: Voting and Bargaining

Natural Disasters and Response

Institutions and Entrepreneurship

Political Theory

All About Contests

Revolutions and Foreign Policy

Voluntary and Cooperative Collective Action


9:30am – 9:45am

Break


9:45am – 11:00am

Plenary Session 3: Experimental Economics: Roots and Branches of Public Choice


11:00am – 11:15am

Break


11:15am – 12:45pm

Panel Discussion in Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Publication of Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference by Geoffrey Brennan and Loren Lomasky

Parties and Performance in Presidential and Parliamentary Systems

Empirical Papers in Electoral and Institutional Change

Empirical Studies on Politics and Taxation

Inequality Around the World

Policy Analysis and Voting Rules

The Political Economy of Busines, Law, and Policy


12:45pm – 2:15pm

Awards Luncheon


2:15pm – 3:45pm

Public Choice and Higher Education I

Economic Institutions in Literature

Regional and State Political Economy

Globalization and Social Outcomes

Advances in Rent Seeking Models

Corruption, Freedom, and Growth

Culture, Institutions, and Government


3:45pm – 4:00pm

Break


4:00pm – 5:15pm

Plenary Session 4: The Future of Social Choice and the Past Presidents of the Public Choice Society


5:15pm – 6:45pm

Cocktail Reception

Sunday, March 10, 2013

7:30am – 8:30am

Continental Breakfast


8:30am – 10:00am

Polycentric Collectivity in Public Finance

Regulation, Market Failure, and Government Failure

Experimental Public Choice

Public Choice Perspectives on Education I

Political Economy of Faith, Work, and Economics

Fomal Voting Models

Freedom to Produce and Trade

Intergovernmental Competition in the American and German States


10:00am – 10:15am

Break


11:15am – 12:45pm

Political Economy of Elections and Entrepreneurship

Public Choice Perspectives on Education I

Political Entrepreneurship and Institutional Change

Spatial and Agency Models

Parties and Political Action in Voting Models

Experiment Papers

Legislative and Campaign Processes

Budgets, Redistribution, and Export Policy