2017 Conference Program Details
- Thursday, March 2
- 1:00pm – 7:00pm
- 3:00pm – 4:15pm
- 4:30pm – 6:00pm *
- 6:00pm – 7:30pm
- Friday, March 3
- 7:00am – 8:00am
- 7:00am – 5:00pm
- 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
- 6:00pm – 9:00pm
- Saturday, March 4
- 7:00am – 5:00pm
- 7:00am – 8:00am
- 8:00am – 9:30am *
- 9:30am – 10:00am
- 10:00am – 11:20am
- 11:20am – 11:30am
- 11:30am – 1:00pm *
- 1:00pm – 2:30pm
- 2:40pm – 4:10pm *
- 4:10pm – 4:20pm
- 4:20pm – 5:50pm *
- 6:00pm – 7:30pm
- 7:30pm – 11:59pm
- Sunday, March 5
- 8:30am – 12:00pm
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Opening Plenary Session with Charles R. Plott, Edward S. Harness Professor of Economics and Political Science, Cal Tech, Past President of PCS (1976-78)
Session Chair:
Georg Vanberg
Social Choice Meets Public Choice: The Plott Conditions at 50
Presenter: Charles Plott
Room: Queen Anne Ballroom
Conference Welcome, Special Introductions
Session Chair:
Georg Vanberg
Session Organizer:
Edward Lopez
Friday, March 3, 2017
Oxford Handbook of Public Choice (1)
Session Chair:
Roger Congleton
Session Organizer:
Roger Congleton
How should votes be cast and counted?
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Presenter: Nicolaus Tideman
Discussant: Randall Holcombe
Why not free trade?
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Presenter: Arye Hillman
Discussant: Nicolaus Tideman
Is Government Growth Inevitable?
Presenter: Randall Holcombe
Discussant: Arye Hillman
The politics of central bank independence
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Presenter: Jakob de Haan
Co-Author(s): S.C. W. Eijffinger
Discussant: Nicolaus Tideman
Room: Iberville Room
Plott Experiments 1
Session Chair:
Keith Dougherty
Session Organizer:
Keith Dougherty
Divergence, Closed Cycles and Convergence in Scarf Environments: Experiments in the Dynamics of General Equilibrium Systems
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Presenter: Ming Hsu
Co-Author(s): Hirota, Masayoshi; Plott, Charles; Rogers, Brian
Discussant: Jonathan Woon
Vetoes and Information Aggregation with Negatively Informed Voters
Presenter: Rebecca Morton
Co-Author(s): Piovesan, Marco; Tyran, Jean-Robert
Discussant: Ming Hsu
Shopping for Trust
Presenter: Rick Wilson
Co-Author(s): Eckel, Catherine C.
Discussant: Rebecca Morton
Public Deliberation, Private Communication, and Collective Choice
Presenter: Jonathan Woon
Co-Author(s): Pronin, Kira
Discussant: Rick Wilson
Room: Ursuline Room
Empirical Political Economy of U.S. Regulations
Session Chair:
Adam Hoffer
Session Organizer:
Adam Hoffer
Political Economy of State Healthcare Expenditures: Effects from Tobacco Taxation, Special Interests, and Spatial Spillovers
Presenter: Adam Hoffer
Co-Author(s): Humphreys, Brad; Ruseki, Jane
Discussant: Josh Matti
The Political Economy of the USDA Rural Business-Cooperative Service
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Presenter: Josh Matti
Discussant: Kathleen Sheehan
Civil Asset Forfeiture, Police Incentives and Budgets
Presenter: Kathleen Sheehan
Discussant: Fredrick Bedsworth
Dependent Care Mandates and Moral Hazard
Presenter: Fredrick Bedsworth
Discussant: Adam Hoffer
Room: Pontalba Room
Independent Judiciary: International Perspectives
Session Chair:
Shruti Rajagopalan
Session Organizer:
Shruti Rajagopalan
Independent Judiciary, Unconstitutional Legislation and Interest Group Behavior: Evidence from India’s Ninth Schedule
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Presenter: Shruti Rajagopalan
Discussant: Georg Vanberg
Is judicial independence good for business?
Presenter: Jerg Gutmann
Co-Author(s): Voigt, Stefan
Discussant: Giovanni Battista Ramello
Judicial Independence in the European Court of Humain Rights
Presenter: Alessandro Melcarne
Co-Author(s): Langlais, Eric; Giovanni Battista Ramello
Discussant: Shruti Rajagopalan
Room: Cabildo Room
Financial Market Regulatory Reform
Session Chair:
Norbert Michel
Session Organizer:
Peter Calcagno
Extended Shareholder Liability as a Means to Constrain Moral Hazard in Insured Banks
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Presenter: Alexander Salter
Co-Author(s): Larry White; Vipin Veetil
Discussant: Gerald Dwyer
A Proposal for a New Federal Charter
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Presenter: Gerald Dwyer
Co-Author(s): Michel, Norbert.
Discussant: George Selgin
Reforming Last-Resort Lending: The Flexible Open Market Alternative
Presenter: George Selgin
Discussant: Jerry Ellig
Improvements in SEC Economic Analysis Since Business Roundtable: A Structured Assessment
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Presenter: Jerry Ellig
Discussant: Alexander Salter
Room: Beauregard Room
Policing and Crime
Session Chair:
Ennio Piano
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Mining and Crime: Evidence from Chile
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Presenter: Matteo Pazzona
Co-Author(s): Corvalan, Alejandro
Discussant: Ennio Piano
Free Riders: The Economics of 1% Organized Motorcycle Clubs
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Presenter: Ennio Piano
Discussant: Gonzalo Macera
Autonomous City of Buenos Aires: Police Force decentralization, a work in progress.
Presenter: Gonzalo Macera
Discussant: Matteo Pazzona
Room: Gallier Room
Policy, Unemployment, and Poverty
Session Chair:
Josef Montag
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Job Security and Employment Prospects of the Unemployed and Participants in Active Labor Market Programs
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Presenter: Carl Magnus Bjuggren
Co-Author(s): Skedinger, Per
Discussant: Jason Saving
What Drives Economic Policy Uncertainty?
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Presenter: Jason Saving
Discussant: Josef Montag
Homeownership, Mobility, and Unemployment: Evidence from Housing Privatization
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Presenter: Josef Montag
Co-Author(s): Peter Huber, Hana M. Smrčková, Petr Sunega
Discussant: Pierre Mandon
Give a Fish or Teach Fishing? Political Affiliation of U.S. Governors and the Poverty Status of Immigrants.
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Presenter: Pierre Mandon
Co-Author(s): Keita, Sekou
Discussant: Carl Magnus Bjuggren
Room: Cathedral Room
Economic Freedom and Its Consequences
Session Chair:
Jeremy Jackson
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Historical influences on entrepreneurship
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Presenter: Stephan Gohmann
Co-Author(s): McCrickard, Myra
Discussant: Jeremy Jackson
Economic Freedom and Philanthropy
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Presenter: Jeremy Jackson
Co-Author(s): Ian Pritchard
Discussant: Vivek Moorthy
Economic Freedom within Russia
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Presenter: Vivek Moorthy
Co-Author(s): Coates, Dennis; Mirkina, Irina
Discussant: Stephan Gohmann
Room: Royal Salon A
Economic Consequences of Regulation
Session Chair:
Alex Moyem Kombat
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Law reform and management control in the Brazilian sugarcane industry
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Presenter: André Bastos
Co-Author(s): Mirian Bacchi; Marcia de Moraes
Discussant: Jacob Burgdorf
Mandated exclusive territories and beer franchise laws: evidence from scanner level data
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Presenter: Jacob Burgdorf
Discussant: Alex Moyem Kombat
The Emergence of Environmental Taxes in Ghana: A Public Choice Analysis
Presenter: Alex Moyem Kombat
Co-Author(s): Frank Wätzold
Discussant: Sevgi Ineci
Climate change and optimal design problem of agricultural insurance for developping countries
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Presenter: Sevgi Ineci
Discussant: Jonathan Ernest
Ensuring Compliance: Analyzing the Effectiveness of Auto Insurance Regulation on Uninsured Motorist Rates
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Presenter: Jonathan Ernest
Discussant: André Bastos
Explorations in Constitutional Political Economy
Session Chair:
Adam Martin
Session Organizer:
Adam Martin
The Constitutional Point of View
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Presenter: Nick Cowen
Discussant: Slade Mendenhall
Spillovers from Voice and Exit
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Presenter: Adam Martin
Discussant: Nick Cowen
Declared war and American victory: a search for effective commitment
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Presenter: Slade Mendenhall
Co-Author(s): Mendenhall, Slade
Discussant: Adam Martin
Room: Orleans Room
Oxford Handbook of Public Choice (2)
Session Chair:
Roger Congleton
Session Organizer:
Roger Congleton
Voting at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention
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Presenter: Keith Dougherty
Discussant: William Shughart
Interest Groups and Regulatory Capture
Presenter: William Shughart
Co-Author(s): Thomas, Diana W.
Discussant: Roger Congleton
The Political Economy of Rent Extraction
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Presenter: Roger Congleton
Discussant: Georg Vanberg
The Least Dangerous Branch? Coordination and Judicial Power
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Presenter: Georg Vanberg
Discussant: Keith Dougherty
Room: Beauregard Room
Political Economy of Monetary Policy
Session Chair:
Peter Calcagno
Session Organizer:
Peter Calcagno
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: Knowledge Problems in Monetary Policy
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Presenter: Alexander Salter
Co-Author(s): Daniel Smith
Discussant: Scott Burns
Monetary Policy without Romance: The Political Economy of the Modern Fed’s Credit Allocation Policies
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Presenter: Scott Burns
Co-Author(s): Lawrence H. White
Discussant: Alexander Salter
Central Bank Transparency and the Performance of Market Expectations
Presenter: Caitlin Ainsley
Discussant: Norman Maynard
A Meta-Analysis of Political Business Cycles
Presenter: Norman Maynard
Co-Author(s): Calcagno, Peter
Discussant: Caitlin Ainsley
Room: Iberville Room
Polycentricity and Institutional Dilemmas in Public Choice
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
Roberta Herzberg
The Problem of Understanding and the Bloomington Solution
Presenter: Jayme Lemke
Co-Author(s): Lingenfelter, Jonathan
Discussant: Roberta Herzberg
Coproduction of Justice
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Presenter: Nathan Goodman
Discussant: Daniel D’Amico
Can Civil Society Be Planned? Lessons from the CO-OP Health Insurance Program
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Presenter: Roberta Herzberg
Co-Author(s): Goodman, Nathan
Discussant: Jayme Lemke
The Potentials and Limitations of De-Incarceration
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Presenter: Daniel D’Amico
Discussant: Nathan Goodman
Room: Pontalba Room
Contests
Session Chair:
Marco Serena
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Contests with non-continuous strategy space
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Presenter: Doron Klunover
Co-Author(s): Morgan John
Discussant: Marco Serena
Level-k models rationalize overspending in contests
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Presenter: Marco Serena
Discussant: Anil Yildizparlak
Contests with Draws: Axiomatization and Equilibrium
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Presenter: Anil Yildizparlak
Co-Author(s): Vesperoni, Alberto.
Discussant: D. Marc Kilgour
Comparing direct algorithms for two-player fair division of indivisible items: A computational study
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Presenter: D. Marc Kilgour
Co-Author(s): Kilgour, D. Marc; Vetschera, Rudolf
Discussant: Doron Klunover
Room: Royal Salon A
Voting and Public Opinion
Session Chair:
Josh Smith
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Procedural Fairness and Economic Voting
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Presenter: Luis Aguiar-Conraria
Co-Author(s): Magalhães. Pedro C.
Discussant: Josh Smith
Is Brexit an Example of Expressive Voting?
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Presenter: Josh Smith
Co-Author(s): William F. Shughart II; Ryan M. Yonk; Matthew Cude;
Discussant: Giovanna Iannantuoni
Do Individual Heterogeneity and Spatial Correlation Matter? An Innovative Approach to the Characterisation of the European Political Space.
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Presenter: Giovanna Iannantuoni
Co-Author(s): Manzoni, Elena; Rossi, Francesca
Discussant: Niklas Potrafke
Opening Hours of Polling Stations and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Presenter: Niklas Potrafke
Co-Author(s): Roesel, Felix
Discussant: Luis Aguiar-Conraria
Room: Ursuline Room
Economic Consequences of Corruption
Session Chair:
Oguzhan Dincer
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Corruption and entrepreneurship: Cross-country evidence from formal and informal sectors
Presenter: Aziz Berdiev
Co-Author(s): James W. Saunoris
Discussant: Oguzhan Dincer
Does Corruption Slow Down Innovation? Evidence from a Cointegrated Panel of U.S. States
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Presenter: Oguzhan Dincer
Discussant: Julien Hanoteau
When institutions fail: corruption as evasive entrepreneurship and positive mediator
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Presenter: Julien Hanoteau
Co-Author(s): Virginie Vial
Discussant: Mario Villarreal-Diaz
Corruption and transaction costs: A Character or Institutional Issue?
Presenter: Mario Villarreal-Diaz
Discussant: Aziz Berdiev
Room: Gallier Room
Happiness
Session Chair:
Ming Hsu
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Predicting unequal treatment: The role of social perception in economic valuation
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Presenter: Ming Hsu
Discussant: Ken Sagynbekov
Good Government: Satisfaction Not Guaranteed
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Presenter: Ken Sagynbekov
Co-Author(s): Cule, Monika
Discussant: Ming Hsu
Room: Cathedral Room
Innovation and Institutions: Governance and Technology
Session Chair:
Lynne Kiesling
Session Organizer:
Lynne Kiesling
The Foundations of Wealth-Enhancing Democracy
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Presenter: Robert Fleck
Co-Author(s): Hanssen, F. Andrew
Discussant: Lynne Kiesling
Toward a Transaction Cost Model of the Platform Economy
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Presenter: Lynne Kiesling
Co-Author(s): Munger, Michael
Discussant: Dominique Lazanski
Governance in International Technical Standards Making: A Tripartite Model
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Presenter: Dominique Lazanski
Discussant: Emily Skarbek
The Rise of Robust Civil Society in 19th Century America
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Presenter: Emily Skarbek
Discussant: Robert Fleck
Contests, Terrorism, and Borders
Session Chair:
Todd Sandler
Session Organizer:
Todd Sandler
Self-Allocation in Contests
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Presenter: Karl Warneryd
Co-Author(s): Bernergard, Axel
Discussant: Daniel Arce
Counterterror Overreaction
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Presenter: Daniel Arce
Discussant: Alberto Vesperoni
A team theory of strategic agglomeration
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Presenter: Alberto Vesperoni
Co-Author(s): Schweinzer, Paul
Discussant: Todd Sandler
Trade and Terrorism: A Disaggregated Approach
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Presenter: Todd Sandler
Co-Author(s): Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Younas, Javed
Discussant: Karl Warneryd
Room: Cathedral Room
Competition and Collusion in Theories of Federalism
Session Chair:
Richard Wagner
Session Organizer:
Richard Wagner
Single Market vs. Political Parallelisms: A False Syllogism in the Building of the European Union
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Presenter: GIUSEPPE EUSEPI
Discussant: Ion Sterpan
Public Entrepreneurship and Collective Action
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Presenter: Ion Sterpan
Co-Author(s): Aligica, Dragos Paul and Sterpan, Ion
Discussant: Yong Yoon
Anticommons and Federalism
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Presenter: Yong Yoon
Co-Author(s): Wagner, Richard
Discussant: Vlad Tarko
Contestation, Shared Community, and Development
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Presenter: Vlad Tarko
Discussant: GIUSEPPE EUSEPI
Room: Iberville Room
Third Annual Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Prize for Best Combined Paper and Presentation by a Graduate Student: Finalists’ Presentations
Session Chair:
Michael Munger
Session Organizer:
Mario Villarreal-Diaz
Electoral cycles in government employment: Evidence from US gubernatorial elections
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Presenter: Dodge Cahan
Discussant: Michael Munger
The Political Economy of Italian Unification in Sicily: Insecurity of Property Rights and the Role of Land Reform
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Presenter: Rosolino Candela
Discussant: Randall Holcombe
The Political Economics of Tax Exemptions: Tax Uniformity as a Constitutional Principle
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Presenter: Charles Delmotte
Discussant: Michael Munger
Room: Ursuline Room
Formal Approaches to Collective Choice
Session Chair:
Steven Slutsky
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Using equations from power indices to analyze figure skating teams
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Presenter: Peter Coughlin
Co-Author(s): Cheng, Diana
Discussant: Tsung-Han Yang
Collective decision-making in siting noxious facilities
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Presenter: Tsung-Han Yang
Discussant: Steven Slutsky
Optimal Regulation of Accident Externalities
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Presenter: Steven Slutsky
Co-Author(s): Hamilton,Jonathan
Discussant: Katsuzo Yamamoto
Brinkmanship and the Risk of Unintended War
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Presenter: Katsuzo Yamamoto
Discussant: Peter Coughlin
Room: Gallier Room
Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Session Chair:
Jakob de Haan
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
What drives fiscal policy adjustments? New evidence for a large set of countries
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Presenter: Jakob de Haan
Co-Author(s): de Wit, Juliette
Discussant: Volker Nitsch
I’m Late, I’m Late, for a Very Important Date: On the Time Use of Central Bank Governors
Presenter: Volker Nitsch
Discussant: Nathalie Janson
Positive Money: the Wrong Answer to the Relevant Question of the Control of Money Supply
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Presenter: Nathalie Janson
Co-Author(s): Bentata, Pierre; Giménez Roche, Gabriel
Discussant: Jakob de Haan
Room: Royal Salon A
Formal Approaches to Parties and Voting
Session Chair:
Steven Brams
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Voter turnout and multiple parties: An individual level model of party formation
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Presenter: Eric Hammer
Discussant: Steven Brams
Multiwinner Approval Voting: An Apportionment Approach
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Presenter: Steven Brams
Co-Author(s): D. Marc Kilgour, Richard F. Potthoff
Discussant: Assaf Basevitch
Ex Post Scoring
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Presenter: Assaf Basevitch
Co-Author(s): Eyal Baharad ; Moshe Koppel
Discussant: Eric Hammer
Room: Pontalba Room
Redistribution and Inequality
Session Chair:
Tor Midtboe
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Immigration and Redistribution: Evidence from 8 Million Forced Migrants
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Presenter: Nico Pestel
Co-Author(s): Chevalier, Arnaud; Elsner, Benjamin; Lichter, Andreas
Discussant: Tor Midtboe
Democracy and the demand for government redistribution: A survey analysis
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Presenter: Tor Midtboe
Discussant: Martin Rode
Political positions on government intervention and inequality: Who is being radicalized by free trade?
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Presenter: Martin Rode
Co-Author(s): Andrea Sáenz de Viteri
Discussant: Daniela Goya-Tocchetto
Measuring the Effects of Inequality on Decision-Making
Presenter: Daniela Goya-Tocchetto
Co-Author(s): Eduardo de Oliveira Horta, Meg Montgomery
Discussant: Nico Pestel
Room: Beauregard Room
Political Economy and Elections
Session Chair:
Daniel Kling
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Political Redistribution of the ARRA Funding: An Analysis of Community Access to Smart Grid Systems and Services
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Presenter: Shan Zhou
Co-Author(s): Douglas Noonan
Discussant: Daniel Kling
The effect of socioeconomic characteristics and local peer effects on responsiveness to GOTV treatments
Presenter: Daniel Kling
Co-Author(s): Stratmann, Thomas
Discussant: Oskar Nupia
Why Vote?: Nested Tests of the Competing Explanation
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Presenter: Richard Jankowski
Discussant: Shan Zhou
Room: Cabildo Room
Legislative Politics in the States
Session Chair:
Mark Crain
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Public Choice of Certificate of Needs: Evidence from Ohio
Presenter: Bryan McCannon
Co-Author(s): Jane Ruseski
Discussant: Steven Monaghan
The Effect of Interest Group Pressure on the Likelihood of a Successful Certificate-of-Need Application
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Presenter: Steven Monaghan
Co-Author(s): Steven Monaghan
Discussant: Mark Crain
Causes of Consensus in American State Legislatures
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Presenter: Mark Crain
Co-Author(s): Nicole Crain
Discussant: Feler Bose
Sunset Laws: An Empirical Analysis
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Presenter: Feler Bose
Co-Author(s): Baugus, Brian; Jacob, Jeffry
Discussant: Bryan McCannon
Understanding the Rules of the Game: Institutions and Entrepreneurship
Session Chair:
Daniel Bennett
Session Organizer:
Boris Nikolaev
How Economic Freedom and Veto Players Jointly Affect Entrepreneurship
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Presenter: Christian Bjørnskov
Co-Author(s): Jacob Nygaard Lihn
Discussant: Daniel Bennett
Entrepreneurial traits, formal institutions, and the motivation to engage in entrepreneurial action: A multi-level analysis
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Presenter: Boris Nikolaev
Co-Author(s): Christopher J. Boudreaux
Discussant: Christian Bjørnskov
Informal Institutions as Social capital: Effects on nascent firm survival
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Presenter: Christopher Boudreaux
Co-Author(s): Jha, Anand; Bradley, Steven
Discussant: Boris Nikolaev
Misperceptions about Entrepreneurship, Government, and Inequality
Presenter: Daniel Bennett
Discussant: Christopher Boudreaux
Room: Orleans Room
Public Policy: Charitable Giving, Crime, Urban Growth and Law
Session Chair:
Greg Randolph
Session Organizer:
Greg Randolph
Double-edged Sword: Using Public Recognition to Encourage Individual Charitable Giving
Presenter: Guanlin Gao
Co-Author(s): Chen, Yefeng; He, Haoran; Luo, Jun
Discussant: Greg Randolph
Bad Weather, Safe Day? The Effect of Weather and Pollution on Crime
Presenter: Bo Liu
Discussant: Mike Tasto
A net welfare benefit approach to optimal taxation
Presenter: Cristian Sepulveda
Discussant: Guanlin Gao
Egalitarianism Revisited
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Presenter: Greg Randolph
Co-Author(s): Cullen, Patrick
Discussant: Bo Liu
The Effects of Law on Urban Growth and Decline
Presenter: Mike Tasto
Co-Author(s): Turnbull, Geoffrey; Salvino, Robert
Discussant: Cristian Sepulveda
Room: Iberville Room
Empirical State and Local Political Economy
Session Chair:
Dean Stansel
Session Organizer:
Dean Stansel
Does economic freedom contribute to urban success? Evidence from U.S. Metropolitan areas
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Presenter: Adam Millsap
Discussant: Dean Stansel
City formation as a defense against Leviathan
Presenter: Frank Stephenson
Discussant: Adam Millsap
The Grecian Horse: Does Immigration Lead to the Deterioration of American Institutions?
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Presenter: Alexandre Padilla
Co-Author(s): Nicolas Cachanosky
Discussant: Frank Stephenson
Examining the Relationship Between Immigration and State Institutions
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Presenter: Dean Stansel
Co-Author(s): Tuszynski, Meg
Discussant: Alexandre Padilla
Room: Cabildo Room
Inequality: Free Market Perspectives
Session Chair:
Stephen Miller
Session Organizer:
G.P. Manish
Capitalism and Inequality: Two Views
Presenter: Randall Holcombe
A Problem of Measurement: Inequality vs. Tax Incidence in Early 20th Century Tax Data
Presenter: Phil Magness
Discussant: Stephen Miller
How tax-return data overstate changes in income inequality
Presenter: Stephen Miller
Co-Author(s): George Mechling, Ronald Konecny
Discussant: Young Back Choi
Entrepreneurship as the Prime Force for Social Mobility
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Presenter: Young Back Choi
Discussant: Randall Holcombe
Room: Ursuline Room
Topics in Applied Political Economy
Session Chair:
Travis Wiseman
Session Organizer:
Travis Wiseman
Foreign aid: boosting or hindering entrepreneurship?
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Presenter: Shaomeng Jia
Co-Author(s): Travis Wiseman
Discussant: Claudia Williamson
Individualism, Democracy, and Contract Enforcement
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Presenter: Claudia Williamson
Co-Author(s): Cline, Brandon
Discussant: Travis Wiseman
Immigration and the Baumolian Entrepreneur in the United States
Presenter: Travis Wiseman
Co-Author(s): Josh Bedi
Discussant: Paul Walker
Individual Competence and Committee Decision Making: Experimental Evidence
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Presenter: Paul Walker
Co-Author(s): McCannon, Bryan
Discussant: Shaomeng Jia
Room: Gallier Room
Formal Approaches to Voting and Rent-Seeking
Session Chair:
Nicholas Miller
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Racking up Rents: Cambridge University Press v. Patton
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Presenter: Derek Yonai
Discussant: Cheng Li
The Geometry of Runoff Elections with Three Candidates
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Presenter: Nicholas Miller
Co-Author(s): Conal Duddy
Discussant: Francesco De Sinopoli
A concept of sincerity for combinatorial voting
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Presenter: Francesco De Sinopoli
Co-Author(s): Claudia Meroni
Discussant: Nicholas Miller
Transparency in Sequential Persuasion
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Presenter: Cheng Li
Co-Author(s): Christopher Cotton
Discussant: Derek Yonai
Room: Beauregard Room
Economics and Public Choice
Session Chair:
David Lucas
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Child-Bride Marriage and Female Welfare
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Presenter: Paola Suarez
Discussant: John Levendis
The Financial Impact of Mass Shootings
Presenter: John Levendis
Co-Author(s): Dicle, Mehmet F.; Dicle, Betul
Discussant: David Lucas
Rooking the State
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Presenter: David Lucas
Co-Author(s): Fuller, Caleb S.; Piano, Ennio E.
Discussant: Daniel D’Amico
Market Concentration in the International Drug Trade
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Presenter: Daniel D’Amico
Co-Author(s): D’Amico, Daniel; Golz, Michael
Discussant: Paola Suarez
Saturday, March 4, 2017
Plott’s Legacy: Papers by His Former Students
Session Chair:
Keith Dougherty
Session Organizer:
Keith Dougherty
Information Structure and Oil Field Unitization: Why Does Bargaining Fail?
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Presenter: Alex Brown
Co-Author(s): Eckel, Catherine C.; Wiggins, Steven N.
Discussant: Brian Rogerss
A New Experimental Mechanism To Investigate Polarized Demands For Public Goods
Presenter: Mark Isaac
Co-Author(s): Norton, Douglas; Pevnitskaya, Svetlana
Discussant: Alex Brown
Why Do People Violate No-Trade Theorems? A Diagnostic Test
Presenter: Ryan Oprea
Co-Author(s): Jacopo Magnani
Discussant: Mark Isaac
Efficiency-based measures of inequality
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Presenter: Brian Rogerss
Co-Author(s): Andonie, Costel; Kuzmics, Christoph
Discussant: Ryan Oprea
Room: Iberville Room
Formal Models of Policymaking
Session Chair:
Dennis Coates
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
A Capture Theory of Committees
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Presenter: Huseyin Yildirim
Co-Author(s): Name-Correa, Alvaro J.
Discussant: anthony heyes
NGO Salience Games
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Presenter: anthony heyes
Co-Author(s): Lyon, Thomas; Martin, Steve
Discussant: Benjamin Chen
Full Disclosure: A Model of OIRA Review
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Presenter: Benjamin Chen
Discussant: Dennis Coates
Vote buying
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Presenter: Dennis Coates
Co-Author(s): Frank Daumann, Alfred Wassermann
Discussant: Huseyin Yildirim
Room: Cabildo Room
State Policy
Session Chair:
Dodge Cahan
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
How would a free market for casinos work in a new casino state?
Presenter: Douglas Walker
Discussant: Dodge Cahan
Electoral cycles in government employment: Evidence from US gubernatorial elections
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Presenter: Dodge Cahan
Discussant: Shree Pokharel
State Exit Exams and Graduation Rates: A Hierarchical Modelling Approach
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Presenter: Shree Pokharel
Discussant: Pablo Garofalo
Federal Spending and the Fiscal Rules of US States
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Presenter: Pablo Garofalo
Discussant: Douglas Walker
Room: Ursuline Room
Development
Session Chair:
Ribal Abi Raad
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Justice delayed, growth denied: evidence from a comparative perspective
Presenter: Alessandro Melcarne
Co-Author(s): Giovanni B. Ramello
Discussant: Tommy Krieger
Computing Machine Learning Indexes: A new Methodology to Unbundle the Role of Democratic Institutions for Economic Growth.
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Presenter: Tommy Krieger
Co-Author(s): Gruendler, Klaus
Discussant: Alessandro Melcarne
Room: Pontalba Room
CPE
Session Chair:
Charles Delmotte
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Ecuador’s 2008 Constitution: the political economy of securing an aspirational social contract
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Presenter: Eric Alston
Discussant: Charles Delmotte
The Political Economics of Tax Exemptions: Tax Uniformity as a Constitutional Principle
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Presenter: Charles Delmotte
Discussant: Vlad Tarko
The Devil’s Fix: James M. Buchanan and the Pinochet Junta
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Presenter: Vlad Tarko
Co-Author(s): Farrant, Andrew
Discussant: Eric Alston
Room: Beauregard Room
Polarization and Public Opinion
Session Chair:
Hans Pitlik
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Media Competition with Targeted Advertising: How Media Polarization Attenuates Political Polarization
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Presenter: Benjamin Ogden
Co-Author(s): Gupta, Samarth
Discussant: Hans Pitlik
Is political polarization driven by economic crises?
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Presenter: Hans Pitlik
Co-Author(s): Martin Rode
Discussant: Tetsuro Okazaki
Valence, Endoersement and Media Diversity
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Presenter: Tetsuro Okazaki
Discussant: M. Garrett Roth
Sixty Years of Pandering? The Nature and Extent of “Social Desirability Bias” in Political Opinion
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Presenter: M. Garrett Roth
Discussant: Benjamin Ogden
Room: Gallier Room
Collective Action and Cooperation
Session Chair:
Daniel Hall
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
R&D is not a Public Good: So Why Subsidize it?
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Presenter: David Chandler Thomas
Co-Author(s): McClure, James;Thomas, David Chandler
Discussant: Junko Furukawa
Collective action mechanism of crowdsourcing: A revised Free Ride Paradise model
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Presenter: Junko Furukawa
Discussant: Daniel Hall
Whither service clubs?
Presenter: Daniel Hall
Discussant: Sigve Tjøtta
It Pays to be Nice: The Strategic Benefits of a Predispostion to Cooperate
Presenter: Sigve Tjøtta
Co-Author(s): Serdarevic, Nina; Strømland, Eirik A.
Discussant: David Chandler Thomas
Room: Royal Salon A
Policymaking and the Bureaucracy
Session Chair:
Steven Craig
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Relationship between Congress and the NASA during the Space Race: Evidence from the Congressional-Dominance Model
Presenter: Leo Krasnozhon
Co-Author(s): William Maye
Discussant: Steven Craig
Can Bureaucrats Manipulate Policy Outcomes?
Presenter: Steven Craig
Co-Author(s): Hoang, Edward; Kohlhase, Janet
Discussant: Tobin McKearin
The effect on prices of deregulation in Texas’ electricity market
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Presenter: Tobin McKearin
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Patrick O’Reilly
A Network Comparison Of Competing Institutions For Managing Water Against Hydropower And Irrigation Demands
Presenter: Patrick O’Reilly
Discussant: Leo Krasnozhon
Plenary Session 3: William Riker, the Rochester School, and Public Choice
Session Chair:
Georg Vanberg
Distinguished Panelist: Keith T. Poole, Philip H. Alston Distinguished Professor, University of Georgia
Presenter: Keith Poole
Distinguished Panelist: Kenneth A. Shepsle, George Markham Professor of Government, Harvard University
Presenter: Kenneth Shepsle
Economics of Corruption
Session Chair:
Jamie Bologna Pavlik
Session Organizer:
Peter Calcagno
Does the Effect Corruption has on Income Inequality Depend on the Informal Sector?
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Presenter: Jamie Bologna Pavlik
Co-Author(s): Sean Mulholland
Discussant: Jeff Milyo
Determinants of Corruption in State Legislatures
Presenter: Jeff Milyo
Co-Author(s): Delhommer, Scott
Discussant: Jamie Bologna Pavlik
Corruption and Destructive Entrepreneurship: How Corruption Affects the Allocation of Resources
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Presenter: Christopher Boudreaux
Co-Author(s): Holcombe, Randall; Nikolaev, Boris
Discussant: Mavuto Kalulu
Fiscal Transparency and Economic Performance at County Level in Arkansas
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Presenter: Mavuto Kalulu
Discussant: Christopher Boudreaux
Room: Iberville Room
Regressive Effects of Regulation
Session Chair:
Diana Thomas
Session Organizer:
Diana Thomas
Regulation and Poverty
Presenter: Patrick McLaughlin
Co-Author(s): Chambers, Dustin; Stanley, Laura
Discussant: Diana Thomas
Regressive Effects of Regulation: Regulation and Wages
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Presenter: Diana Thomas
Co-Author(s): Anderson, Joe; Bailey, James
Discussant: Sean Mulholland
Stratification by regulation
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Presenter: Sean Mulholland
Discussant: Patrick McLaughlin
The Regressive Effects of Environmental Regulation
Presenter: William Shughart
Co-Author(s): Jensen, Michael.
Discussant: James Bailey
The Value of Waivers from the Affordable Care Act
Presenter: James Bailey
Co-Author(s): Wingender, John
Discussant: William Shughart
Room: Orleans Room
Roundtable on Vincent Ostrom’s Meaning of Democracy and the Vulnerabilities of Democracies
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
Roberta Herzberg
Socialist Calculation and Public Economics in Vincent Ostrom’s work on Self-Governing Democratic Society
Presenter: Peter Boettke
Civil Society and the Meaning of Democracy
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Presenter: Lenore Ealy
Vincent Ostrom’s Research Program in Human Association:
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Presenter: Richard Wagner
Freedom and Vincent Ostrom’s Anthropology of Understanding and Action
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Presenter: Steven Grosby
Room: Royal Salon A
Social Choice
Session Chair:
Ville Korpela
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Probability of Violating Arrow’s Conditions
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Presenter: Keith Dougherty
Co-Author(s): Heckelman, Jac
Discussant: Ville Korpela
Social Choice Theory: A Neglected Path to Possibility
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Presenter: Ville Korpela
Discussant: Mahendra Prasad
Are Condorcet Methods the Wrong Arrovian Generalization of Majority Rule
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Presenter: Mahendra Prasad
Discussant: Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard
Trump, Condorcet and Borda: Voting paradoxes in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries
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Presenter: Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard
Discussant: Keith Dougherty
Room: Ursuline Room
Political Cycles
Session Chair:
Alejandro Corvalan
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Battleground States and Economic Growth
Presenter: Maria Tackett
Co-Author(s): Bologna Pavlik, Jamie
Discussant: Alejandro Corvalan
Indirect Political Budget Cycles: Evidence from Chilean Municipalities
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Presenter: Alejandro Corvalan
Co-Author(s): Cox, Paulo; Osorio, Rodrigo.
Discussant: Dmitriy Vorobyev
Political Cycles and Elections in Russian Regions
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Presenter: Dmitriy Vorobyev
Co-Author(s): Sidorkin, Oleg
Discussant: Naseem Faraz
Political Distortions in Public Credit: Evidence from the Universe of Loans in Pakistan
Presenter: Naseem Faraz
Co-Author(s): Rockmore, Marc
Discussant: Maria Tackett
Room: Gallier Room
Authoritarian Politics
Session Chair:
Adrian Lucardi
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Optimal Tyranny
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Presenter: Ash Navabi
Discussant: Linan Peng
Chinese Economic Reform: A Peculiar Case of Mixed Ecology of Enterprises
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Presenter: Linan Peng
Discussant: Patrick Testa
Public education, political participation, and propaganda
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Presenter: Patrick Testa
Discussant: Ash Navabi
Room: Beauregard Room
Congress
Session Chair:
Ulrich Matter
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The impact of individual farmer and agricultural political action committee campaign donations on farm bill votes
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Presenter: Scott Callahan
Discussant: Cesare Buiatti
Legislative Tenure and the Geographic Distribution of Federal Outlays
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Presenter: Cesare Buiatti
Discussant: Ulrich Matter
Uncovering Vote Trading Through Networks and Computation
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Presenter: Ulrich Matter
Co-Author(s): Guerrero, Omar A.
Discussant: Scott Callahan
Room: Pontalba Room
PPE Panel
Session Chair:
Georg Vanberg
Session Organizer:
Cathleen Johnson
Public Entrepreneurship and Collective Action
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Presenter: Ion Sterpan
Co-Author(s): Aligica, Dragos Paul and Sterpan, Ion
Creativity in a theory of entrepreneurship
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Presenter: James Caton
Discussant: Helena Helfer
Reconciling Institutional Change and Institutional Stability
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Presenter: Helena Helfer
Discussant: Ion Sterpan
Room: Cabildo Room
Plott Experiments 2
Session Chair:
Gregory DeAngelo
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Effects of Income Mobility and Tax Persistence on Income Redistribution and Inequality
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Presenter: Marina Agranov
Co-Author(s): Palfrey, Thomas
Discussant: Gregory DeAngelo
Intergroup Inequality and Voting: An Experimental Study
Presenter: Gregory DeAngelo
Co-Author(s): Dubois, Dimitri; McCannon, Bryan; Romaniuc, Rustam
Discussant: Charles Holt
The welfare costs of price controls with rent seeking
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Presenter: Charles Holt
Co-Author(s): Finley, Grace; Snow, Emily
Discussant: Reuben Kline
Differentiated Responsibilities and Prosocial Behavior in Climate Change Mitigation: Behavioral Evidence from the United States and China
Presenter: Reuben Kline
Co-Author(s): Nicholas Seltzer; Evgeniya Lukinova, Autumn Bynum
Discussant: Marina Agranov
Institutions
Session Chair:
Jayme Lemke
Session Organizer:
Peter Calcagno
The Progressive Era Regulation of Women’s Labor: A Case Study in Institutional Entrepreneurship
Presenter: Jayme Lemke
Discussant: Rosolino Candela
The Political Economy of Italian Unification in Sicily: Insecurity of Property Rights and the Role of Land Reform
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Presenter: Rosolino Candela
Discussant: Jayme Lemke
Privacy Law as Price Control
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Presenter: Caleb Fuller
Discussant: Art Carden
More and Better: Resources Defined Through Property and Exchange
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Presenter: Art Carden
Discussant: Caleb Fuller
Room: Iberville Room
Sportometrics in Honor of Robert D. Tollison
Session Chair:
Raymond Sauer
Session Organizer:
Raymond Sauer
Monitoring and Bureaucratic Discretion: Evidence from MLB Umpires
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Presenter: John Bradbury
Discussant: Dennis Coates
Reflections on the Intersection of Sports Economics and Public Choice
Presenter: Dennis Coates
Discussant: Brian Goff
Revisiting Romer: Digging Deeper into What NFL Coaches Maximize
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Presenter: Brian Goff
Discussant: Raymond Sauer
Sportometrics & NFL Coaching Decisions
Presenter: Raymond Sauer
Discussant: Carl Kitchens
Parallel Lives of Hard Hitting Criminals: Evidence from NCAA Football
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Presenter: Carl Kitchens
Co-Author(s): Makofske, Matthew; Wang, Le
Discussant: John Bradbury
Room: Cathedral Room
Models of Voting and Legislative Decision Making
Session Chair:
Yasushi Asako
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Voter Decision Making Models: Predetermined or Primed?
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Presenter: Libby Jenke
Discussant: Yasushi Asako
Condorcet Winner with Political Ambiguity
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Presenter: Yasushi Asako
Discussant: Orestis Troumpounis
Electoral competition with primaries and quality asymmetries
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Presenter: Orestis Troumpounis
Co-Author(s): Grofman, Bernard ; Xefteris, Dimitrios
Discussant: Libby Jenke
Room: Cabildo Room
Size of Government
Session Chair:
William B. Hankins
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Influence of Air Conditioning on the Growth of State Government Expenditures
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Presenter: Natalia Kolesnikova
Co-Author(s): Garrett, Thomas A.
Discussant: William B. Hankins
Finally, Nebraska: A Synthetic Control Analysis of Legislative Structure
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Presenter: William B. Hankins
Discussant: Paul Pecorino
The Effects of a Supermajority Voting Requirement on Government Spending
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Presenter: Paul Pecorino
Discussant: Natalia Kolesnikova
Room: Ursuline Room
Institutions and Fiscal Outcomes
Session Chair:
Monika Koeppl-Turyna
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Public Debt Sustainability under Fiscal Federalism: An Analysis of Indian States
Presenter: Sandhya Garg
Discussant: Marcos Nazareth
Market-preserving federalism: does it really increase Brazil’s economic performance?
Presenter: Marcos Nazareth
Co-Author(s): Gurgel, Ângelo Costa; Vieira, Wilson da Cruz
Discussant: Devin Stein
Burning Budgets
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Presenter: Devin Stein
Co-Author(s): Stein, Devin; Harmer, Camille
Discussant: Anna Faria
Ideas and Policy-Making in Early Twentieth Century São Paulo, Brazil
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Presenter: Anna Faria
Discussant: Sandhya Garg
Room: Pontalba Room
Political Consequences of Corruption
Session Chair:
M. Kadir Dogan
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Voters’ Information, Corruption, and the Effciency of Local Public Services
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Presenter: Davide Vannoni
Co-Author(s): Abrate, Graziano; Boffa, Federico; Erbetta, Fabrizio
Discussant: M. Kadir Dogan
Why support a corrupt politician? The role of information, politician’s performance and ideology on voting for a corrupt politician
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Presenter: M. Kadir Dogan
Co-Author(s): Evrenk, Haldun
Discussant: Umberto Mignozzetti
When does clientelism pay off? Legislature Size and Welfare with Evidence from Brazil
Presenter: Umberto Mignozzetti
Co-Author(s): Cepaluni, Gabriel
Inspection strategies, Corruption and Common Pool Resources
Presenter: Chenyang Xu
Co-Author(s): Klaas van ‘t Veld
Discussant: Davide Vannoni
Room: Royal Salon A
Social Trust
Session Chair:
Pedro Camões
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Interaction between Formal and Informal Institutions: Evidence from Latin American Wellbeing
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Presenter: Andrea Paramo Florencio
Co-Author(s): Bjørnskov, Christian; Agbenyega, Ruby Elorm
Discussant: Pedro Camões
Citizens’ Attitudes Towards Governmental Institutions Across Political Generations: Testing the Effect of individuals’ Prior Political Experiences
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Presenter: Pedro Camões
Co-Author(s): Mendes, Silvia M.
Discussant: Andreas Bergh
The moldable young: How institutions impact social trust
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Presenter: Andreas Bergh
Co-Author(s): Richard Öhrvall
Discussant: Julia Norgaard
Trust Development and Self-Enforcing Exchange in Anonymous Internet Markets
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Presenter: Julia Norgaard
Discussant: Andrea Paramo Florencio
Room: Gallier Room
Fiscal Policy in Comparative Perspective
Session Chair:
Real Arai
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Public Capital and Asset Prices: Time-series Evidence from Japan
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Presenter: Tomomi Miyazaki
Co-Author(s): Kazuki Hiraga; Masafumi Kozuka
Discussant: Laura Rondi
Ex-ante and ex-post outsourcing in public procurement: Temporary Partnership vs subcontracting
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Presenter: Laura Rondi
Co-Author(s): Rondi, Laura; Valbonesi, Paola
Discussant: Moshe Yanovskiy
Political Factors Behind Cuts and Surges in Government Spending: The Effects on Old Market Democracies and Post-Communist Countries
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Presenter: Moshe Yanovskiy
Co-Author(s): Zhavoronkov Sergei; Rodionov Kirill
Discussant: Tomomi Miyazaki
Room: Beauregard Room
Responsiveness
Session Chair:
Amir Borges Ferreira Neto
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Busy Doing Nothing – A Model of Unwanted, Unproductive and Obfuscating Policies
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Presenter: Anders Kärnä
Discussant: Jeremy Horpedahl
Good and Hard: Do US Voters Get the Policies They Prefer?
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Presenter: Jeremy Horpedahl
Discussant: Amir Borges Ferreira Neto
Demand for Public Library Efficiency: An Interest Group versus Median Voter Approach
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Presenter: Amir Borges Ferreira Neto
Co-Author(s): Hall, Josh
Do teachers’ unions fit the median voter framework?
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Presenter: Michelle Phillips
Co-Author(s): Merkle, Jessica
Discussant: Anders Kärnä
State and Local Fiscal Policy
Session Chair:
Peter Calcagno
Session Organizer:
Peter Calcagno
What do Legislators Optimize: The Case of Safety Regulation
Presenter: David Mitchell
Co-Author(s): Tay, Kai Cher
Discussant: Yang Zhou
Does Government Experience Matter? An Analysis of the Fiscal Impact of Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwartznegger
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Presenter: Yang Zhou
Co-Author(s): Roger Congleton
Discussant: David Mitchell
The Role of Fiscal Constraints on Economic Freedom in the States
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Presenter: Peter Calcagno
Co-Author(s): Hall, Joshua
Discussant: Jacob Bundrick
Do Subsidies for Businesses Increase Economic Activity?
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Presenter: Jacob Bundrick
Discussant: Peter Calcagno
Room: Orleans Room
Explanatory Theories of Public Debt
Session Chair:
Richard Wagner
Session Organizer:
Richard Wagner
Autocracy, Democracy and Excessive Public Debt
Presenter: Richard Salsman
Discussant: William Keech
Causality and Institutions in Explaining Public Debt
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Presenter: William Keech
Discussant: David Hebert
Taxation and Debt as Emergent Phenomena
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Presenter: David Hebert
Discussant: Richard Wagner
Public deb and the corruption of contract
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Presenter: Richard Wagner
Discussant: Richard Salsman
Room: Iberville Room
Regulation
Session Chair:
Conor Lennon
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Regulatory Uncertainty, Employment, and Compensation: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act’s Small Group Insurance Marketplace
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Presenter: Conor Lennon
Co-Author(s): Sobel, Russell
Discussant: Emily Washington
The Effects of Philadelphia’s Zoning Reform on Housing Construction
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Presenter: Emily Washington
Discussant: Trey Carson
Scalping
Presenter: Trey Carson
Co-Author(s): Piano, Ennio
Discussant: Conor Lennon
Room: Ursuline Room
Culture
Session Chair:
Matthew Bonick
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Impact of Economic and Political Institutions on Gender Norms
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Presenter: Rosemarie Fike
Discussant: Matthew Bonick
On the Origin and Consequences of Racism
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Presenter: Matthew Bonick
Co-Author(s): Farfan-Vallespn,Antonio
Discussant: Niclas Berggren
Roots of Tolerance: What Explains Western Values among Children of Immigrants?
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Presenter: Niclas Berggren
Co-Author(s): Ljunge, Martin; Nilsson, Therese
Discussant: Rosemarie Fike
Room: Pontalba Room
Terrorism
Session Chair:
Edwar Escalante
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
I hope I die before I get old. The supply side of the market for suicide bombers
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Presenter: Thomas Apolte
Discussant: Edwar Escalante
A Private Solution to Terrorism
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Presenter: Edwar Escalante
Discussant: Thomas Gries
An Economic Theory of ‘Destabilization War’: Compromise for Peace Versus Conventional, Guerilla, or Terrorist Warfare
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Presenter: Thomas Gries
Co-Author(s): Haake, Claus-Jochen
Discussant: Thomas Apolte
Room: Beauregard Room
Property Rights
Session Chair:
Adrian Moore
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Transaction Costs of Property Rights: Evidence from Timber Auctions
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Presenter: Colin Doran
Co-Author(s): Stratmann, Thomas
Discussant: Vincent Geloso
Monopsony and Industrial Development in Nineteenth Century Quebec: The Impact of Seigneurial Tenure
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Presenter: Vincent Geloso
Co-Author(s): Vadim Kufenko; Alex Arsenault Morin
Discussant: Adrian Moore
Are Government Granted Licenses Property Rights?
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Presenter: Adrian Moore
Discussant: Javier Portillo
Land-Assembly and Externalities: How does the prospect of future positive externalities affect land aggregation outcomes?
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Presenter: Javier Portillo
Discussant: Colin Doran
Room: Gallier Room
Rent-Seeking
Session Chair:
Raymond March
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Unions Rent-Seeking Behavior and the Government’s Use of Monopsony Power
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Presenter: Priscila Casari
Co-Author(s): Alves, Pamella
Discussant: Raymond March
Does Physician Concentration Reduce Pharmaceutical Payments to Physicians? An Empirical Analysis
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Presenter: Raymond March
Discussant: James Strickland
Determinants of Lobbying Activity by Interest Groups: The Population Ecology of Lobbyists
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Presenter: James Strickland
Discussant: Ryan Yonk
Exploring the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
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Presenter: Ryan Yonk
Co-Author(s): Wardle, Arthur; Smith Josh
Discussant: Priscila Casari
Room: Royal Salon A
The Political Economy of Violence
Session Chair:
Toshihiro Ihori
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Violent Conflict and Political Institutional Change
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Presenter: Brandon Brice
Discussant: Toshihiro Ihori
National Emergency, Security Spending, and Growth
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Presenter: Toshihiro Ihori
Discussant: Murat Mungan
Disenfranchisement and Over-Incarceration
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Presenter: Murat Mungan
Discussant: Brandon Brice
Celebrating Bob Tollison’s Life and Works: A Memorial Roundtable – Sponsored by the William E. Simon Professorship of Political Economy at Lafayette College
Session Chair:
Mark Crain
Session Organizer:
Edward Lopez
Robert’s Rules for a Knowledge-Creating Society
Presenter: Mark Crain
A Restless Mind
Presenter: Michael Munger
Bob Tollison, A Personal Remembrance
Presenter: William Shughart
Tollison and the Value of Empirical Bricks
Presenter: Brian Goff