2016 Conference Program Details
- Thursday, March 10
- 1:00pm – 7:00pm
- 4:00pm – 5:20pm *
- 5:30pm – 7:20pm
- 7:20pm – 11:59pm
- Friday, March 11
- 7:00am – 5:00pm *
- 7:00am – 8:30am
- 8:00am – 9:30am *
- 9:30am – 10:00am
- 10:00am – 11:20am
- 11:20am – 1:00pm
- 11:20am – 1:30pm
- 1:00pm – 2:30pm *
- 2:30pm – 2:40pm
- 2:40pm – 4:10pm *
- 4:10pm – 4:20pm
- 4:20pm – 5:50pm *
- Saturday, March 12
- 7:00am – 8:30am
- 7:00am – 5:00pm *
- 8:00am – 9:30am *
- 9:30am – 10:00am
- 10:00am – 11:20am
- 11:30am – 1:00pm *
- 1:00pm – 2:40pm
- 2:40pm – 4:10pm *
- 4:10pm – 4:20pm
- 4:20pm – 5:50pm *
- 6:00pm – 7:30pm
- 7:30pm – 11:59pm
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Plenary Session 1: Vernon L. Smith, Chapman University and Society Past President, “On Proving Your Beliefs to be False”. Sponsored by Florida Atlantic University College of Business and Public Choice Society
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Crystal Ballroom
Conference Welcome
Friday, March 11, 2016
Room: Crystal Atrium
Conference Registration Desk
Political Theory
Session Chair:
Colin Jennings
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Markets and Fairness: Folk Intuitions about Economic Justice in the United States
Download paper
Presenter: Daniela Goya-Tocchetto
Co-Author(s): Brock, Schylar; Wright, Jen
Discussant: Piotr Swistak
The Tolerance of the Intolerant
Presenter: Colin Jennings
Discussant: Brian Kogelmann
Minimal Liberalism and the Nature of Rights
Download paper
Presenter: Brian Kogelmann
Discussant: Colin Jennings
Democracy, Hierarchy and Modern Institutions
Presenter: Piotr Swistak
Co-Author(s): Bendor, Jonathan
Discussant: Daniela Goya-Tocchetto
Room: Captains Boardroom
Economic Institutions
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Poor Institutions as a Comparative Advantage
Presenter: Cort Rodet
Discussant: Ash Navabi
Free Trade in Things, But Not Ideas: The Rise of Intellectual Property Protectionism in Free Trade Agreements
Presenter: Ash Navabi
Co-Author(s): Goodman, Nathan.
Discussant: Cort Rodet
Young Startup Firm Exports and Productive Efficiency
Download paper
Presenter: Florence Neymotin
Co-Author(s): Baek, H. Young
Rent-seeking and the Logic of the California Water Game
Download paper
Presenter: James Caton
Co-Author(s): Richard Wagner
Discussant: Florence Neymotin
Room: Commodore Room
Economic Freedom and Size of Government
Session Chair:
Daniel Green
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Post-Socialist Constitutions: The De Jure – De Facto Gap, Its Effects and Determinants
Download paper
Presenter: Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska
Discussant: Daniel Green
Economic Freedom and Quality of Life: Global Evidence and Comparisons
Download paper
Presenter: Al Kamienski
Discussant: Arthur Nelson
Political transitions and growth of government in emerging democracies
Presenter: Dekuwmini (Dee) Mornah
Discussant: Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska
On Economic and Political Freedom: A Vector Autoregression Approach
Download paper
Presenter: Arthur Nelson
Co-Author(s): Montesinos, Hugo
Discussant: Al Kamienski
Room: Chairmans Boardroom
Federalism I
Session Chair:
Monica Escaleras
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Does Fiscal Decentralization Affect Infrastructure Quality?: An Examination of U.S. States
Presenter: Monica Escaleras
Co-Author(s): Calcagno, Peter
Discussant: Yukun Sun
Spatial Corporate Tax Competition among County Level Governments
Presenter: Yukun Sun
Co-Author(s): Ren, Chaoran
Discussant: Monica Escaleras
Majority Voting and Endogenous Timing in Tax Competition
Download paper
Presenter: Taiki Susa
Co-Author(s): Ogawa, Hikaru
Discussant: Zhilong Ge
Room: Salon 1
Fiscal Policy and Economic Viability
Session Chair:
Richard Salsman
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
New methods for testing the sustainability of the government debt
Download paper
Presenter: Kazuki Hiraga
Discussant: Markus Reischmann
Test of Fiscal Sustainabity For Some EU Member States: Case of Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain (PIGS)
Download paper
Presenter: HAKKI ODABAS
Co-Author(s): Veli Yilanci
Discussant: Kazuki Hiraga
Expert opinions on the Grexit
Download paper
Presenter: Markus Reischmann
Co-Author(s): Potrafke, Niklas
Discussant: Richard Salsman
The Paradox of Public Profligacy
Download paper
Presenter: Richard Salsman
Discussant: HAKKI ODABAS
Room: Salon 2
Structure, Scope and Growth of Government I
Session Chair:
Jan Schnellenbach
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Performance Differences in Public Sector
Presenter: Maria Droganova
Discussant: Jan Schnellenbach
The Organization of Central Banks
Presenter: Volker Nitsch
Co-Author(s): Weidner, Jan
Discussant: Andrew Young
A Constitutional Economics Perspective on Soft Paternalism
Download paper
Presenter: Jan Schnellenbach
Discussant: Maria Droganova
Did Women’s Suffrage Change the Size of Government? A Spatial Approach
Presenter: Andrew Young
Co-Author(s): Maria Y. Tackett
Discussant: Volker Nitsch
Room: Salon 3
Coalitions and Policymaking in Parliamentary Democracies
Session Chair:
Georg Vanberg
Session Organizer:
Georg Vanberg
Appointing ministers in multiparty cabinets: a balancing act between intraparty and inter-party competition
Presenter: Despina Alexiadou
Discussant: Thomas Koenig
Competitive Agenda Setting in Parliamentary Democracies
Presenter: Thomas Koenig
Co-Author(s): Nick Lin Katsunori Seki
Discussant: David Fortunato
Coalition Agenda-Setting
Presenter: David Fortunato
Co-Author(s): Mariyana Angelova
Discussant: Georg Vanberg
Government Responsiveness, Legislative Institutions, and Unemployment Policy in Parliamentary Democracies
Presenter: Georg Vanberg
Co-Author(s): Lanny Martin
Discussant: Despina Alexiadou
Room: Tasting Room
The Law and Economics of Marriage
Session Chair:
Pavel Kuchař
Session Organizer:
Joshua Hall
The Birth of Surrogate Motherhood Law: An Economic Analysis of Institutional Reform
Download paper
Presenter: Pavel Kuchař
Discussant: Ho-Po Crystal Wong
Credible Commitments and Marriage: When the Homemaker Gets Her Share at Divorce
Download paper
Presenter: Ho-Po Crystal Wong
Discussant: Paola Suarez
Child Brides
Download paper
Presenter: Paola Suarez
Co-Author(s): Peter Leeson
Discussant: Pavel Kuchař
Marital Regulation, Avoidance, and Equality: Who Still Gives “The Best Years of My Life”?
Download paper
Presenter: Antony Dnes
Discussant: Pavel Kuchař
Room: Salon 4
Public Goods I
Session Chair:
Trey Carson
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Public Health and Private Incentives: Federal Malaria Prevention in the United States, 1910-1950
Presenter: Trey Carson
Discussant: Biplab Datta
Efficiency of Government Expenditure on Health Care of Asian Countries
Download paper
Presenter: Zhenyu Cui
Co-Author(s): Akai, Nobuo
Discussant: Maria Tackett
Is there a school finance channel? Effects of ambient air pollution on K-12 education in USA
Download paper
Presenter: Biplab Datta
Discussant: Zhenyu Cui
Nonpublic Competition and Public School Performance: Evidence from West Virginia
Download paper
Presenter: Maria Tackett
Co-Author(s): Cebula, Richard;Hall, Joshua
Discussant: Trey Carson
Plenary Session 2: Robert D. Cooter, University of California Berkeley, “Why Economic Analysis Has So Little Influence on Constitutional Interpretation by Courts, And What to Do About It” Sponsored by the William E. Simon Chair at Lafayette College
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Bureaucracies
Session Chair:
Arthur Denzau
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Talking about not talking: Deming and New Institutional Economics applied to interorganizational cooperation
Download paper
Presenter: Arthur Denzau
Co-Author(s): Minassians, Hendrik P.; Roy, Ravi K.
Discussant: Kritee Gujral
Estimating Leakage due to Maladministration in India’s Food Security Program: Case Study for the State of Karnataka, 2010
Download paper
Presenter: Kritee Gujral
Co-Author(s): Gujral, Kritee; Balasubramaniam, R.; Karpur, Arun
Discussant: Arthur Denzau
The Study of Port Governance System on Port : Comparison Analysis Between America and Japan
Download paper
Presenter: Toshihiro Watanabe
Discussant: Arthur Denzau
Room: Captains Boardroom
Legal Applications
Session Chair:
Roee Sarel
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Judicial errors, crime deterrence and everything in between: evidence from U.S. federal courts
Download paper
Presenter: Roee Sarel
Discussant: Darwyyn Deyo
A public choice analysis of the general duty of good faith in contractual performance: on a recent decision by the Supreme Court of Canada
Presenter: daniele bertolini
Discussant: Abraham Aldama Navarrete
Justice for Some: How Does Inequality Undermine the Rule of Law?
Download paper
Presenter: Abraham Aldama Navarrete
Discussant: daniele bertolini
The Effect of Judicial Market Planning on Labor Market Distribution and the Right to Contract
Download paper
Presenter: Darwyyn Deyo
Discussant: Roee Sarel
Room: Commodore Room
Political Economy Models
Session Chair:
Ronald Batchelder
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Venetian Investor-Dominated Democracy and the Colleganza Maritime Partnership
Download paper
Presenter: Ronald Batchelder
Discussant: Marina Riem
Comparing Investment Patterns of Foreigners and Locals
Download paper
Presenter: Seungjun Kim
Discussant: Daniel Morales
Revisiting the Latin American growth puzzle: new evidence
Download paper
Presenter: Daniel Morales
Co-Author(s): Faria, Hugo; Montesinos, Hugo
Discussant: Seungjun Kim
Corporate investment decisions under political uncertainty
Download paper
Presenter: Marina Riem
Discussant: Ronald Batchelder
Room: Chairmans Boardroom
Historical Perspectives
Session Chair:
Daniel D’Amico
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Fragmentation of an Empire: The Political Economy of Spain and its Colonies in the Late Bourbon Period
Download paper
Presenter: Fernando Arteaga
Discussant: Zachary Gochenour
Punitive Consequences of Legal Origins
Download paper
Presenter: Daniel D’Amico
Co-Author(s): Claudia Williamson
Discussant: Roland Vaubel
Putting a lid on the melting pot: American immigration policy 1875-1924
Presenter: Zachary Gochenour
Discussant: Fernando Arteaga
The Making of State Religion: Public Choice Theory and Historical Evidence
Download paper
Presenter: Roland Vaubel
Discussant: Daniel D’Amico
Room: Tasting Room
Game Theory
Session Chair:
Steven Slutsky
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Individual Welfare and the Group Size Paradox
Download paper
Presenter: Paul Pecorino
Discussant: Steven Slutsky
Optimal income taxation with no government commitment
Download paper
Presenter: Steven Slutsky
Co-Author(s): Hamilton,Jonathan
Discussant: Stefano Carattini
Green taxes in a post-Paris world: are millions of nays inevitable?
Download paper
Presenter: Stefano Carattini
Co-Author(s): Baranzini, Andrea; Thalmann, Philippe; Varone, Frédéric; Vöhringer, Frédéric
Discussant: Paul Pecorino
Room: Crystal Salon 1
Monetary Policy
Session Chair:
Pierre Siklos
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Solving Milton Friedman’s Conundrum on Price Stability – The Impact of Reserve Requirements Deregulation
Download paper
Presenter: Kai Jäger
Discussant: Pierre Siklos
Sixty Years of FOMC Minutes: Quantifying and Estimating Their Macroeconomic Impact
Download paper
Presenter: Pierre Siklos
Discussant: Bonnie Wilson
To Target or Not to Target? Who Decides?
Download paper
Presenter: Bonnie Wilson
Co-Author(s): Heckelman, Jac C.
Discussant: Kai Jäger
Room: Crystal Salon 2
Regulatory Cases and Economic Behavior
Session Chair:
Andreas Bergh
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Does country level social trust predict the size of the sharing economy?
Download paper
Presenter: Andreas Bergh
Co-Author(s): Alexander Funcke
Discussant: Patrick O’Reilly
Drunk Driving, Traffic Accidents, and Uber
Download paper
Presenter: Sean Mulholland
Co-Author(s): Angela K. Dills
Discussant: Caleb Watney
Backfire Effect Dynamics in Recycling Subsidies for Durable Goods
Download paper
Presenter: Patrick O’Reilly
Co-Author(s): Kaffine, Daniel
Discussant: Andreas Bergh
Regulation, Regime Uncertainty, and Daily Fantasy Sports
Download paper
Presenter: Caleb Watney
Co-Author(s): Watney, Caleb; Koopman, Chris; Pagels, Jim
Discussant: Sean Mulholland
Room: Mariners
Rent Seeking I
Session Chair:
Lucas Rentschler
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Duality and Optimal Political Survival
Download paper
Presenter: Kelly Nelson
Co-Author(s): Rudbeck, Jens
Discussant: Zhe Yang
Two-bidder all-pay auctions with interdependent valuations, including the highly competitive case
Presenter: Lucas Rentschler
Co-Author(s): Turocy, Theodore
Discussant: Kelly Nelson
Risk Attitudes and Heterogeneity in Simultaneous and Sequential Contests
Presenter: Zhe Yang
Co-Author(s): Jindapon, Paan.
Discussant: Lucas Rentschler
Room: Crystal Salon 3
Handbook of Social Choice and Voting: Related Papers
Session Chair:
Nicholas Miller
Session Organizer:
Nicholas Miller
Endogenous Competence and a Limit to the Condorcet Jury Theorem
Presenter: Bryan McCannon
Co-Author(s): Paul Walker
Discussant: Nicolaus Tideman
Further Tests of a Spatial Model of Distributions of Voters’ Rankings of Candidates
Presenter: Nicolaus Tideman
Co-Author(s): Thorsten Matje
Discussant: Itai Sened
Room: Crystal Salon 4
Taxing More Choice I
Session Chair:
Adam Hoffer
Session Organizer:
Adam Hoffer
The Language of Taxation: Ideology Masquerading as Science
Download paper
Presenter: Richard Wagner
Discussant: Adam Hoffer
Stadium Taxes
Presenter: Dennis Coates
Co-Author(s): Craig Depken
Discussant: Richard Wagner
Tax Reform as a Discovery Process
Presenter: Dwight Lee
Co-Author(s): J.R. Clark
Discussant: Dennis Coates
Earmarking and Government Growth
Presenter: Adam Hoffer
Co-Author(s): George Crowley
Discussant: Dwight Lee
Voting and Elections V
Session Chair:
Benjamin Ogden
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Myopic Voters?: An Empirical Defense of Democratic Voting
Download paper
Presenter: Richard Jankowski
Discussant: Friedrich Schneider
Ethical voting in multicandidate elections
Download paper
Presenter: Benjamin Ogden
Co-Author(s): Bouton, Laurent
Discussant: Mahendra Prasad
On the Normative Uniqueness of Majority Rule: Generalizing May’s Theorem to Infinitely Many Voting Systems
Download paper
Presenter: Mahendra Prasad
Discussant: Benjamin Ogden
The Popularity Function: A Spurious Regression? The Case of Austria
Download paper
Presenter: Friedrich Schneider
Co-Author(s): Neck, Reinhard
Discussant: Richard Jankowski
Room: Tasting Room
Public Policy Provision
Session Chair:
Michelle Lofton
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Death, children and pensions
Download paper
Presenter: Vincenzo Alfano
Co-Author(s): Capasso Salvatore
Discussant: Michelle Lofton
The Impact of Citizen Initiatives and Public Government Distrust on Local Public Pensions
Presenter: Michelle Lofton
Co-Author(s): Hou, Yilin; Thomas, Jason
Discussant: Junichi Nagamine
Renewal Investment in Water Infrastructure and Sustainability of Water Utility: A Case Study in Japan
Download paper
Presenter: Junichi Nagamine
Discussant: Michelle Lofton
Room: Mariners
Political Institutions II
Session Chair:
Irina Mirkina
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
FDI and Sanctions: Being Good Guys or Good Investors?
Download paper
Presenter: Irina Mirkina
Discussant: Raymond March
Skin In the Game: Comparing The Private and Public Regulation of Isotrentinoin
Download paper
Presenter: Raymond March
Discussant: Lukas Schötz
Mayor Games in Bavaria: Self Selection of Local Politicians is not influenced by constitutionally defined remuneration increases! Quasi-experimental evidence from Germany.
Presenter: Lukas Schötz
Discussant: Irina Mirkina
Room: Crystal Salon 3
Regulation and Entrepreneurship II
Session Chair:
Joshua Hall
Session Organizer:
Joshua Hall
Is it Scotchy Scotch Scotch: The Political Economy of Japanese Entry to the Scotch Whiskey Industry
Download paper
Presenter: Michelle Vachris
Co-Author(s): Kyle Vachris
Discussant: Shree Pokharel
Barber Licensure and the Supply of Barber Shops: Evidence from US States
Download paper
Presenter: Shree Pokharel
Co-Author(s): Joshua Hall
Discussant: Joshua Hall
Regulation and Entrepreneurial Intention
Presenter: Sriparna Ghosh
Co-Author(s): Joshua Hall
Discussant: Michelle Vachris
Entrepreneurship, Corruption, and Economic Freedom
Presenter: Justin Isaacs
Co-Author(s): Justin Isaacs
Discussant: Sriparna Ghosh
Room: Crystal Salon 1
Macro Economic Freedom Studies
Session Chair:
Daniel Bennett
Session Organizer:
Daniel Bennett
Growth, Inequality and Economic Freedom: Evidence from the US States
Download paper
Presenter: Christian Bjørnskov
Discussant: Daniel Bennett
Poor Institutions as a Comparative Advantage
Download paper
Presenter: Cort Rodet
Discussant: Christian Bjørnskov
On the Hypotheses of Lipset and Friedman. A Logit Approach
Download paper
Presenter: Hugo Moises Montesinos-Yufa
Co-Author(s): Daniel L. Bennett
Discussant: Cort Rodet
Economic Freedom & Happiness Inequality: Friends or Foes?
Download paper
Presenter: Daniel Bennett
Co-Author(s): Boris Nikolaev
Discussant: Hugo Moises Montesinos-Yufa
Room: Crystal Salon 4
Empirical State and Local Political Economy
Session Chair:
Dean Stansel
Session Organizer:
Dean Stansel
Alabama at the Crossroads: An Economic Guide to a Fiscally Sustainable Future
Download paper
Presenter: John Dove
Co-Author(s): Daniel J. Smith
Discussant: Adam Millsap
Local Governments and MSA Economic Freedom: A Test of the Leviathan Hypothesis
Download paper
Presenter: Adam Millsap
Co-Author(s): Adam Millsap, Bradley Hobbs
Discussant: Jeremy Jackson
Economic Freedom of North America at State Borders
Download paper
Presenter: Ryan Murphy
Discussant: John Dove
Room: Chairmans Boardroom
Taxing More Choice II
Session Chair:
Todd Nesbit
Session Organizer:
Adam Hoffer
Taxation as Nudge: The Failure of Anti-Obesity Paternalism
Presenter: Michael Marlow
Co-Author(s): Sherzod Abdukadirov
Discussant: Todd Nesbit
Tax Incentives: Market vs. Business Friendly
Presenter: Frank Hefner
Co-Author(s): Peter Calcagno
Discussant: Michael Marlow
Persecuting Plastic Bags
Presenter: Frank Stephenson
Discussant: Frank Hefner
Excise taxation, quality substitution, and rent seeking
Presenter: Todd Nesbit
Discussant: Frank Stephenson
Room: Crystal Salon 2
The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Prize: Finalists’ Presentations
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Prosperity-enhancing Institutions: Towards a comprehensive composite Index
Download paper
Presenter: Helena Helfer
Discussant: Joshua Hall
Political budget cycles: Manipulation of leaders or bias from research?
Download paper
Presenter: Pierre Mandon
Co-Author(s): Cazals, Antoine.
Discussant: Michael Munger
Endowment Effects in Evolutionary Game Theory: Enhancing Property Rights
Download paper
Presenter: Eric Hammer
Discussant: Georg Vanberg
Constitutions
Session Chair:
Roger Congleton
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Democratic Societies are Trusting Societies
Presenter: Andrew Heritage
Discussant: Robert Warren Anderson
Determinants and Effects of Indian Reservation Constitutions
Download paper
Presenter: Robert Warren Anderson
Discussant: Andrew Heritage
Does rational choice politics need ethics?
Download paper
Presenter: Roger Congleton
Discussant: Stephan Michel
Room: Captains Boardroom
Gender and Culture
Session Chair:
Mark Crain
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Does religion make you sick? Evidence that a secular background promotes health
Download paper
Presenter: Niclas Berggren
Co-Author(s): Ljunge, Martin
Discussant: Dagobert Brito
What aspects of society affect the quality of life of a minority? Global evidence from the new Gay Happiness Index
Download paper
Presenter: Therese Nilsson
Co-Author(s): Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian
Discussant: Mark Crain
TURING ROBOTS: INCOME INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL MOBILITY
Download paper
Presenter: Dagobert Brito
Co-Author(s): Robert F. Curl
Discussant: Niclas Berggren
Regulatory Impediments to Gender Equality and Global Economic Performance
Download paper
Presenter: Mark Crain
Co-Author(s): Crain, Nicole
Discussant: Therese Nilsson
Room: Chart Room
Political Cycles
Session Chair:
Fabiano Barros
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Elections Cycles and Exchange Rates in Brazil
Presenter: Fabiano Barros
Co-Author(s): Covre, Julyana
Discussant: Darren Grant
Do Robocalls Increase Voter Turnout: Evidence from Repeat Calling
Download paper
Presenter: Thomas Stratmann
Co-Author(s): Daniel Kling
Discussant: Fabiano Barros
The Ballot Order Effect Is Huge: Evidence from Texas
Download paper
Presenter: Darren Grant
Discussant: Thomas Stratmann
Room: Commodore Room
Rent Seeking II
Session Chair:
Randall Holcombe
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Returns to Lobbying: Evidence from Local Governments in the “Age of Earmarks”
Download paper
Presenter: Steven Gordon
Discussant: Brian Richter
Rent Seeking Institutions
Presenter: Randall Holcombe
Discussant: Andrea Walters
Disguised Contributions from Corporations to Political Campaigns
Presenter: Brian Richter
Co-Author(s): Fremeth, Adam; Richter, Brian
Discussant: Steven Gordon
Unintended Consequences and Rent Seeking on the Reservation; How Expansion of the Dawes Act Inhibited Native American Development
Presenter: Andrea Walters
Co-Author(s): Vercoe, Moana
Discussant: Randall Holcombe
Room: Crystal Salon 1
Political Institutions
Session Chair:
Burton Abrams
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The impact of basic performance feedback on the gender tournament gap
Presenter: Sabrina Jeworrek
Discussant: JIABIN WU
The Political economy of wage and price controls: Evidence from the Nixon Tapes
Download paper
Presenter: Burton Abrams
Co-Author(s): Butkiewicz, James
Discussant: Nathanael Snow
Homo-Politicus: Evolution of Behavior under Political Institutions
Download paper
Presenter: JIABIN WU
Discussant: Sabrina Jeworrek
Electoral Chaos Within the Evangelical Coalition: An Example of Public Choice Politlcal Theology
Download paper
Presenter: Nathanael Snow
Discussant: Burton Abrams
Room: Crystal Salon 2
Collective Action
Session Chair:
Marek Kaminski
Session Organizer:
Keith Dougherty
Collective Action in an Asymmetric World
Download paper
Presenter: Cuicui Chen
Co-Author(s): Richard Zeckhauser
Discussant: Carole Uhlaner
Coalitional Stability: Apportioning the Legislature at the U.S. Constitutional Convention
Download paper
Presenter: Keith Dougherty
Co-Author(s): Gordon Ballingrud
Discussant: Cuicui Chen
Non-standard Game-theoretic Models of Collective Action
Download paper
Presenter: Marek Kaminski
Discussant: Keith Dougherty
Relational Goods as Solutions to Collective Action
Download paper
Presenter: Carole Uhlaner
Discussant: Marek Kaminski
Room: Crystal Salon 3
Financial Regulation
Session Chair:
Massimiliano Neri
Session Organizer:
Massimiliano Neri
Assessing the Systemic Importance of Asset Managers and Investment Funds
Presenter: Massimiliano Neri
Co-Author(s): Gustave Laurent
K for Underperformance: Agency problems, moral hazard and adverse selection under a compulsive investment regime in Argentina
Presenter: Stephanie Kartzmark
Co-Author(s): Ernesto Edwards
Discussant: Leonidas Zelmanovitz
Narrow Banking’ as an Institutional Improvement
Download paper
Presenter: Leonidas Zelmanovitz
Discussant: Alexander Salter
Polycentric Banking and Financial Stability
Presenter: Alexander Salter
Co-Author(s): Vlad Tarko
Discussant: Massimiliano Neri
Room: Crystal Salon 4
The Causes and Consequences of Legal and Regulatory Complexity
Session Chair:
Patrick McLaughlin
Session Organizer:
Patrick McLaughlin
Regulatory Complexity as a Negative Externality
Download paper
Presenter: Patrick McLaughlin
Co-Author(s): Stephen Jones
Discussant: Stephen Jones
The Incentives for and Consequences of Increasing Complexity of Laws and Regulations: A Case Study of Dodd-Frank
Download paper
Presenter: Scott King
Co-Author(s): Patrick McLaughlin
Discussant: Scott King
Reading Between the Lines: Measuring Bureaucratic Drift
Download paper
Presenter: Stephen Jones
Discussant: Richard Brown
Corporate Political Action and the Public Goods Problem: Franchise Systems as a Change in Context
Download paper
Presenter: Richard Brown
Discussant: Patrick McLaughlin
Room: Tasting Room
Regulation, Subsidies and Entrepreneurship
Session Chair:
Nils Karlson
Session Organizer:
Peter Calcagno
The Sugar Rush from Innovation Subsidies – A Robust Political Economy Perspective
Download paper
Presenter: Nils Karlson
Co-Author(s): Anders Gustafsson, Andreas Stephan, Alice Hallman
Discussant: Sara Sutherland
Firm Support Programs Towards Innovative small and Medium Enterprises: Do They Work?
Presenter: Sven-Olov Daunfeldt
Co-Author(s): Patrik Gustavsson-Tingvall
Discussant: Nils Karlson
Crisis, Ideology, and Interventionist Policy Ratchets
Download paper
Presenter: Christian Bjørnskov
Co-Author(s): Martin Rode
Discussant: Sven-Olov Daunfeldt
Room: Mariners
Polycentricity and Political Economy
Session Chair:
Richard Wagner
Session Organizer:
Richard Wagner
Samaritan’s Dilemmas, Wealth Redistribution, and Polycentricity
Presenter: Richard Wagner
Co-Author(s): Meg Patrick Tuszynski
Discussant: David Hebert
“Limits of Polycentric Adjustment: the State as Jekyll and Hyde”
Download paper
Presenter: Yong Yoon
Discussant: Akira YOKOYAMA
“Community, State and Polycentric Tasks”
Download paper
Presenter: Akira YOKOYAMA
Discussant: Yong Yoon
“Politics as a Polycentric Order in Practice”
Presenter: David Hebert
Discussant: Meg Patrick Tuszynski
Saturday, March 12, 2016
Room: Crystal Atrium
Conference Registration Desk
Public Goods III
Session Chair:
Jennifer Dirmeyer
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Private Security and the Provision of International Public Goods
Presenter: Gregory DeAngelo
Co-Author(s): Leland Taylor Smith
Discussant: Josef Montag
Policing the Police: The Influence of Law, Policy and Culture on Police Brutality
Download paper
Presenter: Jennifer Dirmeyer
Co-Author(s): Cartwright, Alexander
Discussant: Gregory DeAngelo
The Marginal Cost of Justice: A Theory of Optimal Use of Alternative Criminal Procedures
Presenter: Josef Montag
Co-Author(s): Dusek, Libor
Discussant: Jennifer Dirmeyer
Room: Captains Boardroom
Voting and Elections III
Session Chair:
Steven Brams
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Paradox of Grading Systems
Download paper
Presenter: Steven Brams
Co-Author(s): Potthoff, Richard F.
Discussant: Tzu-Chang Forrest Cheng
Vote-Buying for Council Seats: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan
Download paper
Presenter: Tzu-Chang Forrest Cheng
Discussant: Steven Brams
Paths to victory in Presidential elections: The setup power of noncompetitive states
Download paper
Presenter: D. Marc Kilgour
Co-Author(s): Brams, Steven J.
Discussant: Minoru Kitahara
On Candidate’s Strategic Response to the Margin of Victory in Elections
Download paper
Presenter: Minoru Kitahara
Co-Author(s): Koichi Miyazaki
Discussant: D. Marc Kilgour
Room: Commodore Room
Federalism III
Session Chair:
Nathan Ashby
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Minimum Wage and Undocumented Immigration from Mexico
Download paper
Presenter: Nathan Ashby
Co-Author(s): Martinez, Deborah
Discussant: Samuel Hammond
Global Innovation Arbitrage
Download paper
Presenter: Samuel Hammond
Co-Author(s): Adam Thierer
Discussant: Nathan Ashby
Do politicians gratify core supporters? Evidence from a discretionary grant program
Download paper
Presenter: Bjoern Kauder
Co-Author(s): Potrafke, Niklas; Reischmann, Markus
Discussant: Adam Millsap
Can power be restored in the Electric City?: A Case Study of Scranton, PA
Download paper
Presenter: Adam Millsap
Co-Author(s): Norcross, Eileen
Discussant: Bjoern Kauder
Room: Chairmans Boardroom
Political Economy
Session Chair:
Jason Saving
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Creative Capital in Production, Inefficiency, and Inequality: A Theoretical Analysis
Download paper
Presenter: Amit Batabyal
Co-Author(s): Nijkamp, Peter
Discussant: Yiming Liu
The Impact of Minimum Wage on Crime: How Minimum Wage Affects Crime Rates Through Its Effects on Income Inequality and Unemployment
Download paper
Presenter: Brandon Brice
Co-Author(s): Montesinos, Hugo
Discussant: Jason Saving
Income inequality and political polarization
Download paper
Presenter: Yiming Liu
Discussant: Amit Batabyal
Income Inequality, Media Fragmentation and Increased Political Polarization
Download paper
Presenter: Jason Saving
Co-Author(s): Duca, John
Discussant: Brandon Brice
Room: Crystal Salon 1
Political Representation
Session Chair:
Stephan Gohmann
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Bergson-Samuelson social welfare function and the controversy around the death of (new) welfare economics
Download paper
Presenter: Herrade Igersheim
Discussant: David Hughes
Does Economic Freedom Win or Lose with a Trifecta?
Download paper
Presenter: Stephan Gohmann
Discussant: David Hughes
An Information-Based Theory of Judicial Choice with Applications to State Supreme Courts
Download paper
Presenter: David Hughes
Discussant: Stephan Gohmann
Room: Crystal Salon 2
Fiscal Policy III
Session Chair:
Georgeanne Artz
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Do Differences in Marginal Tax Rates at State Borders Affect Economic Activity?
Download paper
Presenter: Georgeanne Artz
Co-Author(s): Orazem, Peter
Discussant: Anna Welander
The Effects of Compliance Reminders on Tax Payments; Quasi-experimental Evidence from Greece
Download paper
Presenter: Antonios M. Koumpias
Discussant: Georgeanne Artz
Does Debt Relief Improve Child Health? Evidence from Cross-Country Micro Data
Download paper
Presenter: Anna Welander
Discussant: Antonios M. Koumpias
Room: Crystal Salon 3
Rent Seeking III
Session Chair:
George Clarke
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The effect of corruption on TFP after correcting for badly measured variables
Download paper
Presenter: George Clarke
Discussant: Kathleen Sheehan
The Varied Effect of Different Types of Corruption on Economic Activity
Presenter: Kanybek Nur-tegin
Discussant: Amjad Toukan
Aiding the Underground: Foreign Aid and the Shadow Economy
Download paper
Presenter: Kathleen Sheehan
Co-Author(s): Wiseman, Travis; Jia, Shaomeng
Discussant: George Clarke
Privately Held or Publicly Owned? The Role of Debt Financing
Download paper
Presenter: Amjad Toukan
Discussant: Kanybek Nur-tegin
Room: Tasting Room
Institutional Analysis
Session Chair:
Christopher Boudreaux
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Managing for failure: National Park Service mismanagement of Yellowstone
Download paper
Presenter: Jordan Lofthouse
Co-Author(s): Yonk, Ryan
Discussant: Christopher Boudreaux
Political Entrepreneurship and Constitutional Amendments in India
Presenter: Shruti Rajagopalan
Discussant: Carl Kitchens
National Policies for Regional Development: Evidence from the Appalachian Development Highway System
Presenter: Carl Kitchens
Co-Author(s): Jaworski, Taylor
Discussant: Shruti Rajagopalan
Entrepreneurial Capital and Innovation: An Institutional Analysis
Download paper
Presenter: Christopher Boudreaux
Discussant: Jordan Lofthouse
Room: Crystal Salon 4
Regulation and Entrepreneurship III
Session Chair:
Bryan McCannon
Session Organizer:
Joshua Hall
Potential Entrepreneurs and Regulation: Who Gets Stuck in the Red Tape?
Download paper
Presenter: James Bailey
Co-Author(s): Diana Thomas
Discussant: Bryan McCannon
Regulation, Entrepreneurship, and Dynamism
Download paper
Presenter: Patrick McLaughlin
Co-Author(s): Oliver Sherouse
Discussant: James Bailey
Lessons from the Small Business Financing Literature
Download paper
Presenter: David Wille
Co-Author(s): Stephen Miller, Adam Hoffer
Discussant: Patrick McLaughlin
The RFS mandate in Corn Country; Exploring the economic impacts of Ethanol Policy
Presenter: Landon Stevens
Discussant: Adam Hoffer
Plenary Session 3: David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart, “‘Almost Wholly Negative’: The Ford Foundation’s Appraisal of the Virginia School” Sponsored by the Center for Study of Public Choice
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Conflict
Session Chair:
Ahmed Skali
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Riots and the Window of Opportunity for Coup Plotters: Evidence on the Link between Public Protests and Coups d’État
Download paper
Presenter: Lena Gerling
Discussant: Jozefina Kalaj
Conflict and Urbanization: The Case of Sierra Leone
Download paper
Presenter: Jozefina Kalaj
Discussant: Lena Gerling
Belief Systems and Armed Conflict
Download paper
Presenter: Ahmed Skali
Discussant: Trent MacDonald
Theory of non-territorial internal exit
Download paper
Presenter: Jason Potts
Co-Author(s): Trent MacDonald
Discussant: Ahmed Skali
Room: Chairmans Boardroom
Incentives
Session Chair:
Mario Villarreal-Diaz
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Perverse joint-incentives of faculty unions and administrators in public institutions of higher education
Presenter: Ishuan Li
Discussant: Mario Villarreal-Diaz
Can development aid help a country to escape poverty trap?
Presenter: Thi Kim Cuong PHAM
Co-Author(s): Sang PHAM-NGOC
Discussant: Ishuan Li
The “Sugar Rush” from Innovation Subsidies – A Robust Political Economy Perspective
Download paper
Presenter: Nils Karlson
Co-Author(s): Anders Gustafsson; Andreas Stephan; Nils Karlson; Alice Hallman
Discussant: Thi Kim Cuong PHAM
Changing the Status Quo: Cooperation, Power and Parity
Presenter: Mario Villarreal-Diaz
Discussant: Nils Karlson
Room: Tasting Room
Health Care
Session Chair:
David Chandler Thomas
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Determinants of Sexual Freedom in the United States from 1990 to 2010: Dynamic Panel Data Analysis
Download paper
Presenter: Feler Bose
Co-Author(s): Jeffry Jacob
Discussant: Viktoria Obolevich
When are Lifestyle Policies Acceptable? A View from Behavioural Political Economy with an Application to Tobacco Policy
Download paper
Presenter: Viktoria Obolevich
Co-Author(s): Bjørnskov, Christian
Discussant: Feler Bose
Moral Hazard in Healh Care: A Misdiagnosis
Download paper
Presenter: David Chandler Thomas
Co-Author(s): David Chandler Thomas; David R. Henderson
Discussant: Moiz Bhai
Room: Crystal Salon 1
Comparative Applications
Session Chair:
Aziz Berdiev
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Globalization and informal entrepreneurship
Presenter: Aziz Berdiev
Co-Author(s): Saunoris, James
Discussant: Ghanshyam Sharma
Testing The Purchasing Power Parity For G7 Countries
Presenter: hakan eryüzlü
Discussant: veli yilanci
Testing the unemployment hysteresis for g20 countries
Download paper
Presenter: veli yilanci
Co-Author(s): Sasmaz, Mahmut Unsal
Discussant: hakan eryüzlü
The Political Economy of Automobile Insurance: Elected vs Appointed Regulators
Download paper
Presenter: Ghanshyam Sharma
Discussant: Aziz Berdiev
Room: Crystal Salon 2
Issues of Technology and Information
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Internet Availability, Political Information, and Voting: Evidence from Brazil
Download paper
Presenter: Aline Menezes
Tech Entrepreneurs and the Regulatory State
Presenter: Liya Palagashvili
Discussant: Aline Menezes
Shadow Markets and Hierarchies: Comparing and Modeling Networks in the Dark Net
Download paper
Presenter: Julia Norgaard
Co-Author(s): Walbert, Harold; Hardy, Robert
Discussant: Atin Basuchoudhary
Modeling the asymmetric information problem in cyber attacks
Presenter: Atin Basuchoudhary
Co-Author(s): Laura Razzolini
Discussant: Julia Norgaard
Room: Crystal Salon 3
Growth, Development and Land Use
Session Chair:
William Fischel
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Do Growth Controls Cause High Housing Prices, or Vice Versa? A Public Choice Explanation for Variation in American Zoning Policies
Download paper
Presenter: William Fischel
Discussant: Hannah Mead
Testing for the exclusionary motive behind land-use regulations
Presenter: Hannah Mead
Co-Author(s): Jones, Garett; Tabarrok, Alex
Discussant: Emily Washington
The Limits and Potential of Smart City Tools in the Hands of Policymakers
Download paper
Presenter: Emily Washington
Discussant: Nana Zubek
Social capital, economic development and political knowledge: They not only drive local government performance – in fact they spillover
Presenter: Nana Zubek
Co-Author(s): Christian Henning
Discussant: William Fischel
Room: Crystal Salon 4
Local Institutions
Session Chair:
Gunther Markwardt
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Transparency and performance in the Italian Municipalities (2010 and 2014)
Download paper
Presenter: Emma Galli
Co-Author(s): Galli Emma, Ilde Rizzo, Carla Scaglioni
Discussant: Dmitriy Vorobyev
Self-preserving Leviathans: Evidence from local level data
Presenter: Gunther Markwardt
Co-Author(s): Jan Kluge; Christian Thater
Discussant: Beatriz Maldonado
Identity, Patronage, and Redistribution: The Economic Impact of Evo Morales
Presenter: Beatriz Maldonado
Co-Author(s): Hicks, Daniel L.; Piper, Brian; Goytia Rios, Alejandra
Discussant: Gunther Markwardt
Political Risk, Information and Corruption Cycles: Evidence from Russian Regions
Download paper
Presenter: Dmitriy Vorobyev
Co-Author(s): Sidorkin, Oleg
Discussant: Emma Galli
Room: Chart Room
Political Thought
Session Chair:
Michael Clark
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Positive public economics: reinterpreting “optimal” policies
Presenter: Brian Albrecht
Discussant: Maite Laméris
On the Validation of Political Ideology
Download paper
Presenter: Maite Laméris
Co-Author(s): Jong-A-Pin, Richard; Wiese, Rasmus
Discussant: Brian Albrecht
Room: Captains Boardroom
Social Norms and Behavior
Session Chair:
Alexander Funcke
Session Organizer:
Alexander Funcke
Conformist Preferences in Mixed-Motive Games
Download paper
Presenter: Alessandro Sontuoso
Co-Author(s): Michael Naef
Discussant: Cristina Bicchieri
Positive deviance and social change
Presenter: Cristina Bicchieri
Discussant: Alexander Funcke
Instilling Norms in a Turmoil of Spillovers
Download paper
Presenter: Alexander Funcke
Discussant: Toshihiro Ihori
International Security and Misperceptions about Threat and Economic Growth
Download paper
Presenter: Toshihiro Ihori
Co-Author(s): Nakagawa, Shintaro
Discussant: Alessandro Sontuoso
Public Goods and Taxation
Session Chair:
Edward Hoang
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
How to add a public choice perspective to public goods with a classroom experiment
Download paper
Presenter: Daniel Hall
Co-Author(s): Crofton, Stephanie; Holmes, William
Discussant: Edward Hoang
Can Bureaucrats Defeat Public Demand For Technological Advances in Government?
Presenter: Edward Hoang
Co-Author(s): Craig, Steven; Kohlhase, Janet
Discussant: Daniel Hall
Shale Gas Development and Housing Values over a Decade: Evidence from the Barnett Shale
Presenter: Wesley Burnett
Discussant: xiaobing wang
The Dynamics of Taxation and Habitual Public Spending
Presenter: xiaobing wang
Co-Author(s): Hao, Xin. Madden, Paul
Discussant: Wesley Burnett
Room: Chairmans Boardroom
Free Riding and the Provision of Public Goods
Session Chair:
Henrik Jordahl
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
A theory of reciprocity: agents use models to process the real world
Download paper
Presenter: Paul Bennett
Discussant: Junko Furukawa
Free Ride Paradise -The Logic of the Collective Action of Open Source Software and the Voluntary Provision of International Public Goods-
Download paper
Presenter: Junko Furukawa
Discussant: Gavin Roberts
Profit in tax-financed services: An experimental opinion survey
Presenter: Henrik Jordahl
Discussant: Paul Bennett
Social capital and the voluntary provision of public goods
Download paper
Presenter: Gavin Roberts
Co-Author(s): Chakraborti, Rik; Maloney, Matt
Discussant: Henrik Jordahl
Room: Crystal Salon 1
Campaigns
Session Chair:
Deborah Fletcher
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Comparing Approaches to Endogeneity in the Returns to Campaign Advertisements
Download paper
Presenter: Becca Jorgensen
Co-Author(s): Deborah Fletcher
Discussant: Christian Henning
Testing for interest group influence in electoral models: A Bayesian approach
Presenter: Christian Henning
Co-Author(s): Petri, Svetlana; Seide, Laura
Discussant: Deborah Fletcher
Experimental evidence of the effect of issue-specific platform information on voting behavior
Download paper
Presenter: Thomas Knight
Co-Author(s): Duerr, Isaac; Woodworth, Lindsey
Discussant: Andranik Tangian
Improving policy representation of the German Bundestag by an alternative election method
Download paper
Presenter: Andranik Tangian
Discussant: Thomas Knight
Room: Crystal Salon 2
Fiscal Policy IV
Session Chair:
John Golob
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Political budget cycles and fiscal situation of municipalities between 2002 and 2014
Presenter: Julyana Covre
Co-Author(s): Mattos, Leonardo Bornacki de
Discussant: Christoph Schinke
Is the Federal Debt Raising Corporate Profits and Reducing Labor’s Share of National Income?
Download paper
Presenter: John Golob
Discussant: Bo Zhao
Inter Vivos Transfers and the 2009 German Transfer Tax Reform
Download paper
Presenter: Christoph Schinke
Discussant: Julyana Covre
Transparency in State Debt Disclosure
Download paper
Presenter: Bo Zhao
Co-Author(s): Wang, Wen
Discussant: John Golob
Room: Crystal Salon 3
Rent seeking IV
Session Chair:
Richard Brown
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Fiscal decentralization and its spillover effect on corruption: evidence from Bayesian spatial analysis
Presenter: Shafiun Shimul
Discussant: Steve Simpson
Corporate Political Action and the Public Goods Problem: Franchise Systems as a Change in Context
Download paper
Presenter: Richard Brown
Discussant: Shafiun Shimul
The aristocracy of pull: an Objectivist analysis of cronyism
Download paper
Presenter: Steve Simpson
Discussant: Richard Brown
Room: Crystal Salon 4
Comparative Political Economy
Session Chair:
Anna Faria
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Code of Vendetta: An Economic Analysis of Customary Law in Rural Sardinia
Download paper
Presenter: Ennio Piano
Discussant: Anna Faria
With a little help from my foes: A model of security spill-over-effects in wars of conquest
Download paper
Presenter: Soeren Schwuchow
Discussant: WEIJIE LUO
Bittersweet Development: Unequal Outcomes of Commodity Cycles in Brazil
Download paper
Presenter: Anna Faria
Discussant: Ennio Piano
Inequality and the Size of Government
Presenter: WEIJIE LUO
Co-Author(s): Pickering, Andrew; Santos Monteiro, Paulo
Discussant: Soeren Schwuchow
Room: Chart Room
Public Finance and Public Policy
Session Chair:
Peter Calcagno
Session Organizer:
Peter Calcagno
Control of inflation through investment and productivity–a comparative study with India
Presenter: Nisha Singh
Co-Author(s): SHARMA RAJESHWAR DAYAL; DESHAI NAISHADH
Discussant: Todd Nesbit
Tax Induced Cigarette Smuggling in the United States
Presenter: Todd Nesbit
Co-Author(s): Robert Lawson
Discussant: Nisha Singh
De Viti de Marco vs. Ricardo on Public Debt: Self Extinction or Default?
Download paper
Presenter: Richard Wagner
Co-Author(s): Giuseppe Eusepi
Discussant: Adrian Moore
Causes and cures of public pension debt
Presenter: Adrian Moore
Co-Author(s): Randazzo, Anthony
Discussant: Richard Wagner
Room: Mariners
Trust
Session Chair:
Christian Bjørnskov
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Asymmetric Role of Social Trust in Political Reform Processes
Download paper
Presenter: Christian Bjørnskov
Co-Author(s): Berggren, Niclas
Discussant: Andreas Ek
Cross-Country Differences in Preferences for Leisure
Download paper
Presenter: Andreas Ek
Discussant: Christian Bjørnskov
Is the Effect of Income on Democracy Heterogeneous?
Download paper
Presenter: Hugo Moises Montesinos-Yufa
Co-Author(s): Faria, Hugo J.
Discussant: Christian Bjørnskov
Room: Captains Boardroom
Individual Level Issues
Session Chair:
Dennis Coates
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Individual Learning and Norm Formation
Presenter: Erkan Gurpinar
Co-Author(s): Aydogmus, Ozgur; Cagatay, Hasan; Oguz, Fuat
Discussant: Moana Vercoe
Determinants of Public Support for Business in Russia
Presenter: Dennis Coates
Co-Author(s): Iuliia Naidenova; Petr Parshakov
Discussant: Kai Jäger
Where Does Portfolio Investment Go and Why?
Download paper
Presenter: Kai Jäger
Discussant: Dennis Coates
No time to vote: A cost benefit ananlysis of distance and time in voting in Montana
Presenter: Moana Vercoe
Co-Author(s): Walters, Andrea.
Discussant: Erkan Gurpinar
Explaining Election Cycles
Session Chair:
Bodo Knoll
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Electoral cycles in MPs’ salaries: Evidence from the German states
Download paper
Presenter: Manuela Krause
Co-Author(s): Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas
Discussant: Bodo Knoll
Valence and Endorsement: Media Influence on Elections
Download paper
Presenter: Tetsuro Okazaki
Discussant: Junichiro Wada
Studying unequal representation
Download paper
Presenter: Junichiro Wada
Co-Author(s): Kamahara, Yuta
Discussant: Tetsuro Okazaki
Room: Captains Boardroom
Federalism in International Arenas
Session Chair:
Luigi Moretti
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Intergovernmental Transfers in Mexico: Political Parties and Political Ambitions
Download paper
Presenter: Rene Cabral
Co-Author(s): Abbot, Andrew; Jones, Philip
Discussant: Danko Tarabar
European Institutional Integration and Income Inequality
Download paper
Presenter: Danko Tarabar
Co-Author(s): Tarabar, Danko
Discussant: Rene Cabral
Allocation of European structural funds, decentralization and strategic spatial interactions
Presenter: Lionel VEDRINE
Discussant: Luigi Moretti
Norwegian Rhapsody? The Political Economy Benefits of Regional Integration
Download paper
Presenter: Luigi Moretti
Co-Author(s): Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio
Discussant: Lionel VEDRINE
Room: Captains Boardroom
Social Policy Provision
Session Chair:
Bradley Hobbs
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
WELFARE SYSTEM IN ARGENTINA. A CASE STUDY AGAINST SOCIAL ARRANGEMENTS.
Presenter: Carolina Gonzalez Rodriguez
Discussant: Jason Potts
Political-economic determinants of education reform: Evidence on interest groups and student outcomes
Download paper
Presenter: Vigile Marie Fabella
Discussant: Bradley Hobbs
Economics of Blockchain – A public choice perspective
Download paper
Presenter: Jason Potts
Co-Author(s): De Filippi, Primavera; Davidson, Sinclair
Discussant: Carolina Gonzalez Rodriguez
Room: Chairmans Boardroom
Structure, Scope and Growth of Government II
Session Chair:
Vlad Tarko
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Financial Development and Underground Economy in the Transition Economies of European Union
Download paper
Presenter: YILMAZ BAYAR
Co-Author(s): Ozturk, Omer Faruk
Discussant: Thi Kim Cuong PHAM
Organized White Collar Crime (OWCC) and Punishment in Italy:The Unvarnished Truth of a “Legislative Intention”
Download paper
Presenter: Roberto Peroncini
Discussant: Vlad Tarko
Can development aid help a country to escape poverty trap?
Presenter: Thi Kim Cuong PHAM
Co-Author(s): Sang PHAM-NGOC
Discussant: YILMAZ BAYAR
Polycentricity: What it is and why it matters?
Presenter: Vlad Tarko
Co-Author(s): Sterpan, Ion
Discussant: Roberto Peroncini
Room: Crystal Salon 1
Risk and Policymaking
Session Chair:
Nakul Kumar
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The interdependence of independent judiciaries
Download paper
Presenter: Marek Endrich
Discussant: Nakul Kumar
It’s No Spring Break in Cancun: The Effects of Exposure to Violence on Risk Preferences, Pro-Social Behavior, and Mental Health
Download paper
Presenter: Muhammad Nasir
Co-Author(s): Rockmore, Marc; Tan, Chih Ming
Discussant: Sevgi Ineci
Good governance and economic efficiency: The flooding risk and its economic impacts on SME in developping countries
Download paper
Presenter: Sevgi Ineci
Discussant: Muhammad Nasir
Political Transitions and Disaster Relief in Afghanistan
Presenter: Nakul Kumar
Co-Author(s): Masoudnia-Saleh, Homa
Discussant: Marek Endrich
Room: Chart Room
Market Failures
Session Chair:
Javier Portillo
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Principal-agent conflicts in global union federations
Download paper
Presenter: Felix Hadwiger
Discussant: Julia Norgaard
The Choice of Remedy to the Common Pool: The Case of Groundwater Management
Download paper
Presenter: Eric Edwards
Co-Author(s): Andrew B. Ayres, Gary D. Libecap
Discussant: Alex Moyem Kombat
The Effect of Tor Client Traffic on The Price of Bitcoin
Download paper
Presenter: Julia Norgaard
Discussant: Felix Hadwiger
The emergence of environmental taxes in Ghana – a Public Choice analysis
Presenter: Alex Moyem Kombat
Co-Author(s): Wätzold Frank
Room: Tasting Room
Social Interactions and Political Legitimacy
Session Chair:
Peter Miller
Session Organizer:
Peter Miller
From the Tread Mill to my Own Pace: On Motivation as Explanation for Social Mobility
Download paper
Presenter: francesca lipari
Co-Author(s): Sebastiano Bavetta, Paola Sama
Discussant: Peter Miller
Autonomy and Tolerance
Presenter: Peter Miller
Co-Author(s): Sebastiano Bavetta
Discussant: Carlo Cordasco
Explaining the Taste for Revolt: The Role of Autonomy, Religious Diversity, and Fanaticism
Download paper
Presenter: Alba Marino
Co-Author(s): Dario Maimone Ansaldo Patti , Pietro Navarra
Discussant: francesca lipari
Room: Crystal Salon 2
Politics and Knowledge (Political Processes in the Context of the Assembly of Knowledge)
Session Chair:
Pavel Kuchař
Session Organizer:
Pavel Kuchař
Regarding the Use of Knowledge in Political Economy: Paretian Insight into a Hayekian Challenge
Download paper
Presenter: Richard Wagner
Discussant: Georg Vanberg
Market Failure and Government Failure
Download paper
Presenter: Michael Munger
Discussant: Edward Lopez
Corporatism and Constitutional Political Economy
Download paper
Presenter: Erwin Dekker
Discussant: Michael Munger
Entrepreneurship and Institutional Change: The Case of Surrogate Motherhood
Download paper
Presenter: Pavel Kuchař
Discussant: Richard Wagner
Room: Crystal Salon 3
Governance and Public Choice: Ostromian Themes and Interpretations
Session Chair:
Lenore Ealy
Session Organizer:
Paul Dragos Aligica
Club Women and the Provision of Local Public Goods
Download paper
Presenter: Jayme Lemke
Co-Author(s): Julia Norgaard
Discussant: Paul Dragos Aligica
The Evolution of Governance Structures in a Polycentric System
Download paper
Presenter: Vlad Tarko
Co-Author(s): McPhail, Edward
Discussant: Jayme Lemke
Vertical Fiscal Gaps and Economic Performance: A Theoretical Review and Empirical Meta-Analysis
Download paper
Presenter: Jason Sorens
Discussant: Vlad Tarko
Public Entrepreneurship and Collective Action: Conceptual Framework and Analytical Implications
Presenter: Paul Dragos Aligica
Co-Author(s): Ion Sterpan
Discussant: Jason Sorens
Room: Crystal Salon 4
Experimental Public Choice
Session Chair:
Keith Dougherty
Session Organizer:
Keith Dougherty
Getting the Kids (with disabilities) to School: A Mechanism Designed for Efficient Government Procurement
Presenter: Charles Plott
Discussant: Mark Isaac
Can Buyer ‘Mobility’ Reduce Aggregation Failures in Land-¬Assembly?
Presenter: Mark Isaac
Co-Author(s): Carl Kitchens
Discussant: Richard Jong-A-Pin
Primaries, Strategic Expectations, and Candidate Polarization
Presenter: Jonathan Woon
Discussant: Charles Plott
Expressive voting and political ideology in a laboratory experiment
Presenter: Richard Jong-A-Pin
Co-Author(s): Wiese, Rasmus
Discussant: Jonathan Woon