2019 Conference Program Details
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- Thursday, March 14
- 1:00pm – 6:30pm
- 2:00pm – 3:30pm
- 4:00pm – 5:45pm *
- 6:00pm – 7:30pm
- 7:30pm – 11:59pm
- Friday, March 15
- 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 – 9:00pm
- 6:00pm – 11:59pm
- Saturday, March 16
- 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 – 11:30pm
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Conference Welcome, Special Introductions
Session Chair:
Edward Lopez
Room: Regency Ballroom South
Plenary Session 1: Thomas Stratmann on Campaign Finance
Session Chair:
Roger Congleton
Session Organizer:
Roger Congleton
Campaign Contributions. Do they Matter for Policy Outcomes?
Presenter: Thomas Stratmann
Friday, March 15, 2019
Empirical Public Policy & Entrepreneurship
Session Chair:
Daniel Bennett
Session Organizer:
Daniel Bennett
Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurial Startup Activities in the United States
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Presenter: Shishir Shakya
Discussant: Eric C. Mota
Public Policy and Entrepreneurship: The Adverse Effects of Well-Intended Policies
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Presenter: Eric C. Mota
Co-Author(s): Peter G. Klein
Discussant: Jeremy Jackson
Creative Destruction, Job Reallocation, and Subjective Well-being
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Presenter: Jeremy Jackson
Co-Author(s): Mona Ahmadiani; Adam Hyde
Discussant: Daniel Bennett
Local Economic Freedom and Creative Destruction in America
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Presenter: Daniel Bennett
Discussant: Shishir Shakya
Room: Churchill Downs
Bureaucracy
Session Chair:
Daniel Gibbs
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Civil service reform, self-selection, and bureaucratic performance
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Presenter: Daniel Gibbs
Discussant: Janet Kohlhase
Can Bureaucrats Manipulate Policy Outcomes?
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Presenter: Janet Kohlhase
Co-Author(s): Craig, Steven; Hoang, Edward; Kohlhase, Janet
Discussant: Pedro Camões
Where or Whom to Contract? An Empirical Study of Political Proximity in Public Procurement at Municipal Level
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Presenter: Pedro Camões
Co-Author(s): Cerejeira, João
Discussant: Alfa Farah
Winning a District Office in a Clientelistic Society: Evidence from Indonesia
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Presenter: Alfa Farah
Discussant: Daniel Gibbs
Room: Regency South A
Law & Econ I
Session Chair:
Murat Mungan
Session Organizer:
Kevin Grier
Evidence on Court System Bias from Strategic Judge Assignment
Presenter: Jillian Carr
Co-Author(s): McClain, William
Discussant: Anna Harvey
Within-Judge Estimates of Appointment and Election In Criminal Appeals
Presenter: Anna Harvey
Co-Author(s): DeAngelo, Greg
Discussant: Murat Mungan
Positive Sanctions
Presenter: Murat Mungan
Discussant: Alexander Lundberg
On the Public Finance of Capital Punishment
Presenter: Alexander Lundberg
Discussant: Jillian Carr
Room: Regency South B
The Politics of Criminal Justice
Session Chair:
David Skarbek
Session Organizer:
David Skarbek
Why Do States Privatize their Prisons? The Unintended Consequences of Inmate Litigation
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Presenter: Anna Gunderson
Discussant: Joshua Page
A Constructed Reality: Desperation and Service in the Bail Industry
Presenter: Joshua Page
Discussant: Adaner Usmani
The Racial Politics of the Punitive Turn
Presenter: Adaner Usmani
Co-Author(s): Clegg, John
Discussant: Jennifer Doleac
Algorithmic Risk Assessment Tools in the Hands of Humans
Presenter: Jennifer Doleac
Co-Author(s): Stevenson, Megan
Discussant: Anna Gunderson
Room: Seneca-Iroquois
Political Economy Case Studies
Session Chair:
Peter Frank
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
An Expansive Pro-Life Movement: Political, Economic and Religious Perspectives on Refugees and Immigration in America
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Presenter: Peter Frank
Co-Author(s): Ellis, Joseph; Castello, Sergio; Warren, Matthew
Discussant: Jonatan Lemus
Judicial strategic behavior in Guatemala’s Constitutional Court in tax cases from 2006 to 2018
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Presenter: Jonatan Lemus
Co-Author(s): Galdamez, Enrique, Santos, Carolina; Fernandez, Santiago;
Discussant: Abdel-Hameed Nawar
Do Economics and Political Science Scholars Differ on Public Choice Issues? Evidence from Brazil
Presenter: Abdel-Hameed Nawar
Discussant: Cameron Weber
“Heuristic on Art-Statism: How State Art Production Can Create Preferences in Voters for a State with Greater Discretionary Power, with Case Studies from the New Deal”
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Presenter: Cameron Weber
Co-Author(s): Weber, Cameron
Discussant: Peter Frank
Room: Hialeah
Political History
Session Chair:
Clara Piano
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The comparative endurance and efficiency of religion.
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Presenter: Anthony Gill
Discussant: Clara Piano
An Economic Theory of Economic Analysis: The Case of the School of Salamanca
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Presenter: Clara Piano
Discussant: Emil Duhnea
Buchanan and Bloomington
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Presenter: Emil Duhnea
Co-Author(s): Martin, Adam
Discussant: Anthony Gill
Room: Gulfstream
Normative Public Choice
Session Chair:
Richard Jankowski
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Cicero: A Constitutional Defense of the Roman Republic
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Presenter: Richard Jankowski
Discussant: Jon Murphy
Frederic Bastiat: Public Choice Theorist
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Presenter: Jon Murphy
Discussant: Vasyl Kvartiuk
Why “limited access” institutions may jeopardize federalism: Agriculture subsidization in the EU and Russia
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Presenter: Vasyl Kvartiuk
Co-Author(s): Thomas Herzfeld, Jana Demoustier
Discussant: Nick Cowen
The mirage of mark-to-market taxation: Capital taxation within the market process
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Presenter: Nick Cowen
Co-Author(s): Delmotte, Charles
Discussant: Richard Jankowski
Room: Kentucky Suite
Public Choice Dynamics
Session Chair:
Benjamin Blemings
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Riding Dirty: The Political Economy of Disruptive Pavement Maintenance
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Presenter: Benjamin Blemings
Co-Author(s): Bock, Margaret
Discussant: Steven Johnson
The Effect of State-Level Welfare Policy on Disability Acceptance Rates
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Presenter: Steven Johnson
Discussant: Pedro Camões
Using Wavelets to Test the Waves of Democracy
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Presenter: Pedro Camões
Co-Author(s): Aguiar-Conraria, Luis
Discussant: Benjamin Blemings
Room: Keeneland
Formal and Informal Institutions
Session Chair:
Edward Lopez
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Cognitive Dimension of Institutions
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Presenter: Edward Lopez
Co-Author(s): James L. Caton
Discussant: Daniel Rothschild
Social and Asocial Capital: Social Embeddedness and Government Intervention
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Presenter: Daniel Rothschild
Discussant: Andreas Bergh
Hayekian Welfare States: Explaining the co-existence of economic freedom and big government
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Presenter: Andreas Bergh
Discussant: Edward Lopez
Fifth Annual Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Prize for Best Combined Paper and Presentaiton by a Graduate Student
Session Chair:
Edward Lopez
Session Organizer:
Lynne Kiesling
Why Do States Privatize their Prisons? The Unintended Consequences of Inmate Litigation
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Presenter: Anna Gunderson
Discussant: David Skarbek
The Effect of State-Level Welfare Policy on Disability Acceptance Rates
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Presenter: Steven Johnson
Discussant: Roberta Herzberg
The Fiscal Truth: Personal Fiscal Information Curbs Enthusiasm for Tax and Spend
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Presenter: Kaetana Leontjeva
Discussant: Richard Wagner
Room: Hialeah
Federalism I
Session Chair:
Nathan Dong
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Budget Constraints, Market Opportunities and Off-Budget Financing of Local Governments in China
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Presenter: Nathan Dong
Co-Author(s): Wang, Zigan
Discussant: Arijit Ray
Conditional Cash Incentives and Sex-Ratio at Birth in India
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Presenter: Arijit Ray
Discussant: Nathan Dong
Room: Churchill Downs
International Political Economy
Session Chair:
Friedrich Schneider
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Are Fiscal Multiplier Estimates Politically Biased?
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Presenter: Friedrich Heinemann
Co-Author(s): Asatryan, Zareh; Havlik, Annika; Heinemann, Friedrich; Nover, Justus
Discussant: Friedrich Schneider
Cash in Circulation and the Shadow Economy: An Empirical Investigation
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Presenter: Friedrich Schneider
Co-Author(s): Seitz, Franz and Reimrers Hans-Eggert
Discussant: Katsuzo Yamamoto
Spatial Model Analysis and the Rational Choice Approach about Brinkmanship and Inadvertent War
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Presenter: Katsuzo Yamamoto
Discussant: Friedrich Heinemann
Room: Seneca-Iroquois
Industrial Organization
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Regulation and Industry-Level Competitive Balance
Presenter: Todd Nesbit
Discussant: Jonas Grafström
An Anatomy of Failure – China´s Wind Power Program
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Presenter: Jonas Grafström
Discussant: Todd Nesbit
Room: Kentucky Suite
Artificial Intelligence and Public Choice Roundtable
Session Chair:
Steven Brams
Session Organizer:
Mahendra Prasad
AI Research Needs Public Choice
Presenter: Mahendra Prasad
Discussant: Baobao Zhang
Artificial Intelligence: American Attitudes and Trends
Presenter: Baobao Zhang
Co-Author(s): Allan Dafoe
Discussant: Allan Dafoe
Governing AI
Presenter: Allan Dafoe
Discussant: Roman Yampolskiy
Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security
Presenter: Roman Yampolskiy
Discussant: Mahendra Prasad
Room: Gulfstream
Domestic and International Federalism: Game Theoretic Properties
Session Chair:
Yukari Iwanami
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Burden-Sharing among Alliance Members and the Reassurance Effect of Military Alliances
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Presenter: Yukari Iwanami
Discussant: Shigeo Morita
Endogenous timing in tax competition and tax revenue orientation
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Presenter: Shigeo Morita
Discussant: Ajay Sharma
Nash Equilibrium in Tax and Public Investment Competition
Presenter: Ajay Sharma
Co-Author(s): Pal, Rupayan
Discussant: Alex Theisen
Carrots, Sticks, and Words: Characterizing Soft and Hard Power in International Relations
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Presenter: Alex Theisen
Discussant: Yukari Iwanami
Room: Keeneland
Experimental Public Choice I
Session Chair:
Lucas Rentschler
Session Organizer:
Gregory DeAngelo
Tilting the playing field in all-pay auctions
Presenter: Lucas Rentschler
Co-Author(s): Dan Kovenock
Discussant: Daniel Kling
Observability without observation: The effect of impersonal social pressure messages in a GOTV experiment
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Presenter: Daniel Kling
Co-Author(s): Stratmann, Thomas
Discussant: Evan Calford
Law enforcement and strategic uncertainty
Presenter: Evan Calford
Co-Author(s): DeAngelo, Greg
Discussant: Bryan McCannon
Moral Cost in Weighted Committee Decisions
Presenter: Thomas Stratmann
Co-Author(s): Nicola Maaser
Discussant: Lucas Rentschler
Room: Cherokee-Shawnee
How Policies Affect Growth, Productivity, and Trade
Session Chair:
Scott Baier
Session Organizer:
Patrick McLaughlin
Using Machine Learning to Quantify Trade Agreements
Presenter: Scott Baier
Co-Author(s): Narendra Regmi
Discussant: Bentley Coffey
Regulatory Budgeting and Economic Growth: Evidence from British Columbia
Presenter: Bentley Coffey
Co-Author(s): McLaughlin, Patrick; Peretto, Pietro
Discussant: Tyler Richards
Regulation and Productivity in US Manufacturing
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Presenter: Tyler Richards
Co-Author(s): Patrick McLaughlin; Bentley Coffey
Discussant: Toshihiro Ihori
National Emergency and Security Spending
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Presenter: Toshihiro Ihori
Discussant: Scott Baier
Room: Regency South A
Theory of Rent Seeking
Session Chair:
Paan Jindapon
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Network Spillovers in Tullock’s Contests
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Presenter: Michael Smith
Co-Author(s): Dr. Paan Jindapon
Discussant: Wolfgang Leininger
Rent-Seeking in Nature: a Reassessment of Evolutionary Stability in Contests
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Presenter: Wolfgang Leininger
Discussant: Cheng Li
Centralized Policymaking and Informational Lobbying
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Presenter: Cheng Li
Discussant: Jeremy Kidd
Collusive Rent-Seeking in Cy Pres Class Action Settlements
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Presenter: Jeremy Kidd
Co-Author(s): Whitehead, Michael
Discussant: Paan Jindapon
Culture, Institutions and Development I
Session Chair:
Daniel Bennett
Session Organizer:
Daniel Bennett
Securing Personal Freedom through Institutions – The Role of Democracy and Judicial Independence
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Presenter: Niclas Berggren
Co-Author(s): Gutmann, Jerg
Discussant: Hugo Moises Montesinos-Yufa
The Role of Culture and Institutions in Economic Development
Presenter: Hugo Moises Montesinos-Yufa
Co-Author(s): Bennett, Daniel; Faria, Hugo; Gwartney, James; Navarro, Carlos
Trust, regulation and contracting institutions
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Presenter: Claudia Williamson
Co-Author(s): Cline, Brandon
Discussant: Niclas Berggren
Room: Churchill Downs
Law & Econ II
Session Chair:
Kevin Grier
Session Organizer:
Vincent Geloso
Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?
Presenter: Samuel Absher
Discussant: Vincent Geloso
More severe punishments, more severe crashes: evidence from drunk driving
Presenter: Kerianne Lawson
Co-Author(s): DeAngelo, Gregory
Discussant: Robin Grier
Exposure to Drug Cartels and the Allocation of Consumption Spending in Mexico
Presenter: Robin Grier
Co-Author(s): Grier, Kevin; Hicks, Dan; Blanco, Luisa
Discussant: Kevin Grier
Tonight We’re Gonna Parti (Quebecois) like it’s 1976
Presenter: Kevin Grier
Co-Author(s): Geloso, Vincent
Discussant: Samuel Absher
Room: Regency South A
Epistemic Choice and Public Choice
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
Lenore Ealy
Conscience, Covenant, and Cascades of Meaning: Notes toward transcending the vulnerabilities of democracy
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Presenter: Lenore Ealy
Discussant: James Caton
Sovereignty, Speech Acts, and the Evolution of Institutions
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Presenter: James Caton
Co-Author(s): Edward J. López
Discussant: Richard Wagner
Janus without Cores: A venture into Social Epistemology
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Presenter: Richard Wagner
Discussant: Rok Novak
The Orderly Frameworks of Disorderly Plans: Radical Subjectivism as a Feature of Entangled Social Orders
Presenter: Rok Novak
Co-Author(s): Fritz, Roland
Discussant: Lenore Ealy
Room: Regency South B
Technology Policy Through a Public Choice Lens (Roundtable)
Session Chair:
Lynne Kiesling
Session Organizer:
Lynne Kiesling
Technology Policy Through a Public Choice Lens: Net Neutrality
Presenter: Thomas Hazlett
Electricity and the Digital Energy Future
Presenter: Lynne Kiesling
Technology Policy Through a Public Choice Lens: Antitrust Populism
Presenter: Thom Lambert
Room: Seneca-Iroquois
PSE: Politics, Sociolocy, Economics
Session Chair:
Peter Calcagno
Session Organizer:
Peter Calcagno
Constitutions and Social Trust: An Analysis of the U.S. States
Presenter: Peter Calcagno
Co-Author(s): Ahnen, David
Discussant: Christian Bjørnskov
Social Trust and Political Independence
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Presenter: Christian Bjørnskov
Co-Author(s): Jerg Gutmann, Stefan Voigt
Discussant: Art Carden
It’s in Smith: An Ethically Mature Citizenry is Necessary for Growth
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Presenter: Art Carden
Co-Author(s): Marshall, Jennings B.; Caskey, Greg
Discussant: Peter Calcagno
Room: Hialeah
Elections and Governance
Session Chair:
Taiki Susa
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Timing of election under globalization: a tax competition approach
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Presenter: Taiki Susa
Discussant: Mats Ekman
Advance Voting and Political Competiton
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Presenter: Mats Ekman
Discussant: Arthur Nelson
Advertising and Entry Deterrence in U.K. Parliamentary Elections
Presenter: Arthur Nelson
Discussant: James Strickland
Lobbying for a Cause: Public Interests, Private Interests, and Single-Interest Advocates
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Presenter: James Strickland
Discussant: Taiki Susa
Room: Gulfstream
Governance and Economic Development
Session Chair:
Helena Helfer
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Democracy and Prosperity – The Special Case of Latin America
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Presenter: Helena Helfer
Discussant: Nicholas Reinarts
Democracy, Stability, and Prosperity: A Panel Data Analysis
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Presenter: Nicholas Reinarts
Discussant: Peter Jacobsen
Planning the Public
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Presenter: Peter Jacobsen
Discussant: Linan Peng
Room: Kentucky Suite
Legislative and Coalition Politics
Session Chair:
Georg Vanberg
Session Organizer:
Georg Vanberg
Logrolling and Minoritarian Rule
Presenter: Michelle Whyman
Discussant: Steven Brams
The (Police) Agency Problem: Police Use of Deadly Force
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Presenter: David Fortunato
Co-Author(s): Scott Cook
Discussant: Michelle Whyman
Coalition Government, Legislative Institutions, and Public Policy in Parliamentary Democracies
Presenter: Georg Vanberg
Co-Author(s): Lanny Martin
Discussant: Daniel Smith
Turn-Taking in Office
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Presenter: Daniel Smith
Discussant: David Fortunato
Room: Keeneland
Conflict, Violence, and Governance
Session Chair:
David Skarbek
Session Organizer:
David Skarbek
Civilian Support for Criminal and Political Armed Groups: Evidence from Colombia
Presenter: Livia Schubiger
Co-Author(s): De Bruin, Erica; Weintraub, Michael
Discussant: Danilo Freire
What Drives State-Sponsored Violence?: Evidence from Extreme Bounds Analysis and Ensemble Learning Models
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Presenter: Danilo Freire
Co-Author(s): Uzonyi, Gary
Discussant: John Meadowcroft
The Logic of Far-Right Activism
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Presenter: John Meadowcroft
Discussant: Anja Shortland
Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business
Presenter: Anja Shortland
Discussant: Livia Schubiger
Corporate Welfare
Session Chair:
Amihai Glazer
Session Organizer:
Amihai Glazer
Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: New Evidence from Large Plant Openings
Presenter: Carlianne Patrick
Co-Author(s): Partridge, Mark
Discussant: Paul Pecorino
Public goods and lobbying with participation costs
Presenter: Paul Pecorino
Co-Author(s): Conlon, John R.
Discussant: Amihai Glazer
Incentives, Plant Locations, and Plant Survival
Presenter: Amihai Glazer
Co-Author(s): Nicholas Kumomoto
Discussant: Tae Kim
Does a Firm’s Political Capital Affect Its Investment and Innovation?
Presenter: Tae Kim
Discussant: Carlianne Patrick
Room: Cherokee-Shawnee
Experimental Public Choice II
Session Chair:
Jason Aimone
Session Organizer:
Gregory DeAngelo
Herd Behavior under Varying Degrees of Uncertainty
Presenter: Adam Hoffer
Co-Author(s): Tsang, Ming; Stivers, Adam
Discussant: Jason Ralston
Pay, Pleas, and Prosecutorial Leniency
Presenter: Jason Ralston
Co-Author(s): Rentschler, Lucas; Aimone Jason; North, Charles
Discussant: Rustam Romaniuc
Risk, Ambiguity, And False Confessions : An experimental laboratory study of the innocence problem
Presenter: Jason Aimone
Co-Author(s): North, Charles; Ralston, Jason; Rentschler, Jason
Discussant: Adam Hoffer
Room: Regency South B
Political Economy of Corruption
Session Chair:
Oguzhan Dincer
Session Organizer:
Oguzhan Dincer
The Effects of Federal Regulations on Corruption in U.S. States
Presenter: Oguzhan Dincer
Co-Author(s): Gunalp, Burak
Discussant: Jordan Gans-Morse
Self-Selection into Public Service When Corruption is Widespread: Evidence from Post-Soviet Russia
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Presenter: Jordan Gans-Morse
Co-Author(s): A. Kalgin, A. Klimenko, D. Vorobyev, A. Yakovlev
Discussant: Robert Gillanders
The Role of a Free Press in Combating Business Corruption
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Presenter: Robert Gillanders
Co-Author(s): Binhadab, Nouf; Breen, Michael
Discussant: Sriparna Ghosh
BRICS: Cooperation for Development Or A New Channel For Corruption?
Presenter: Sriparna Ghosh
Co-Author(s): Olga Nicoara
Discussant: Oguzhan Dincer
Room: Regency South A
Empirical State and Local Political Economy
Session Chair:
Dean Stansel
Session Organizer:
Dean Stansel
Is Occupational Licensing a Bipartisan Issue?
Presenter: Daniel Sutter
Co-Author(s): Dove, John A.
Discussant: Dean Stansel
Horizontal “Checks and Balances” in the Socialist Regime: Prefecture City Level Evidence from China
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Presenter: Yang Zhou
Discussant: Daniel Sutter
Economic Freedom and Migration: A Metro Area-Level Analysis
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Presenter: Dean Stansel
Co-Author(s): Arif, Imran; Hoffer, Adam
Discussant: Yang Zhou
Room: Churchill Downs
Public Finance and Federalism in Developing Countries
Session Chair:
Monica Escaleras
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Assessing the Impact of Decentralization and Political Institutions on Infrastructure Quality
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Presenter: Monica Escaleras
Co-Author(s): Chiang, Eric
Discussant: Samir Zine El Alaoui
Strategic interactions between Moroccan local governments are geographical or political?
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Presenter: Samir Zine El Alaoui
Co-Author(s): Maria EL KHDARI; Samira OUKARFI; Youness SAHIBI
Discussant: Mansokku Lee
Public Trust, Government Spending, and Financial Development
Presenter: Mansokku Lee
Discussant: Monica Escaleras
Room: Hialeah
Deficits
Session Chair:
Chuanyi Guo
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Impact of State Financial Intervention on School District Fiscal Performance: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
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Presenter: Chuanyi Guo
Discussant: Rene Cabral
Public Debt Sustainability and Political Networks: The Case of Subnational Debt in Mexico
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Presenter: Rene Cabral
Co-Author(s): Fausto Hernández-Trillo; Ernesto del Castillo
Discussant: Jen Sidorova
Policy Path Dependence and Public Pension Debt: How Statutory Funding Policy Can Shape Political Decision Making for State Run Pension Systems
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Presenter: Jen Sidorova
Co-Author(s): Anthony Randazzo
Discussant: Lang Yang
Who Pays Attention to Government Information? Housing and Credit Market Responses to New York Fiscal Stress Monitoring System
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Presenter: Lang Yang
Discussant: Chuanyi Guo
Room: Seneca-Iroquois
Ruling and Economic Policy
Session Chair:
Richard Jong-A-Pin
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Rich or Alive? Political (in)stability, political leader selection and economic growth
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Presenter: Richard Jong-A-Pin
Co-Author(s): Yu, Shu
Discussant: Steven Craig
Samuelson Meets Federalism: Local Production of a National Public Good
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Presenter: Steven Craig
Co-Author(s): Brueckner, Jan; Lee, Kangoh
Discussant: Pierre Siklos
The Evolving Scope and Content of Central Bank Speeches
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Presenter: Pierre Siklos
Co-Author(s): St. Amand, Samantha; Wajda Joanna
Discussant: Richard Jong-A-Pin
Room: Gulfstream
Conflict
Session Chair:
Edwar Escalante
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Night watchers and Terrorists
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Presenter: Edwar Escalante
Discussant: Ilia Murtazashvili
VoxPrey: Think tanks and the predatory state
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Presenter: Ilia Murtazashvili
Co-Author(s): Mylovanov, Tymofiy; Murtazashvili, Jennifer
Discussant: Ennio Piano
Mercenaries
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Presenter: Ennio Piano
Co-Author(s): Peter T Leeson
Discussant: Henry Thompson
Identity and Off-Diagonals: How Permanent Winning Coalitions Destroy Democratic Governance
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Presenter: Henry Thompson
Co-Author(s): Peter J. Boettke
Discussant: Edwar Escalante
Room: Kentucky Suite
Rent Seeking and Extraction
Session Chair:
Dalila Lindov
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Are legislators responsive to contributions from teachers’ unions?
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Presenter: Dalila Lindov
Discussant: Jordan Lofthouse
Don’t buffalo me: The political economy of American Prairie Reserve
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Presenter: Jordan Lofthouse
Discussant: Fabio Padovano
Exploring the Determinants and Consequences of the Stringency of Environmental Policies
Presenter: Fabio Padovano
Co-Author(s): Cadoret Isabelle
Discussant: Dalila Lindov
Saturday, March 16, 2019
Legislative Processes
Session Chair:
Jonathan Ernest
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Sunsetting Yourself Up for Success: A Model of Legislative Usage of Sunset Provisions
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Presenter: Jonathan Ernest
Discussant: Mark Crain
Durable Diversity in State Legislative Actions
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Presenter: Mark Crain
Co-Author(s): Crain, Nicole; Clark, Judson; Clark, Kiley
Discussant: Fabio Padovano
Political Legislation Cycles in a Country in Transition Towards Democracy: The Case of South Korea
Presenter: Fabio Padovano
Co-Author(s): Lagona, Francesco
Discussant: Franck Viroleau
A Model of Influence on Trade Policy in a General Equilibrium Model
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Presenter: Franck Viroleau
Discussant: Jonathan Ernest
Room: Regency South B
Theory and Elections I
Session Chair:
Nicolaus Tideman
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Evaluating Algorithms for Replicating Voting Data
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Presenter: Nicolaus Tideman
Co-Author(s): Song, Chang Geun
Discussant: Dmitriy Vorobyev
Information Disclosure in Elections with Sequential Costly Participation
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Presenter: Dmitriy Vorobyev
Discussant: Keith Dougherty
The Probability of Sen’s Liberal Paradox
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Presenter: Keith Dougherty
Co-Author(s): Edward, Julian
Discussant: Jac Heckelman
Symmetrical Positional Scoring Rules
Presenter: Jac Heckelman
Co-Author(s): Ragan, Robi
Discussant: Nicolaus Tideman
Room: Regency South A
Juries and the Law
Session Chair:
Garrett Petersen
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Three Angry Men: A Framed Jury Experiment
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Presenter: Garrett Petersen
Discussant: Thomas Apolte
The Dynamics of Political Myths and Ideologies
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Presenter: Thomas Apolte
Co-Author(s): Julia Müller
Discussant: Sultan Mehmood
Judiciary’s Achilles Heel: Executive Control via Appointment Power
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Presenter: Sultan Mehmood
Discussant: Julia Norgaard
The Decline of the Court Martial
Presenter: Julia Norgaard
Discussant: Garrett Petersen
Room: Seneca-Iroquois
Voting Behavior
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Luis Aguiar-Conraria
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Quorum in the laboratory when electors enjoy voting
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Presenter: Luis Aguiar-Conraria
Co-Author(s): Magalhães, Pedro; Vanberg, Christoph
Discussant: liza charroin
Log-rolling under majority and unanimity rule
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Co-Author(s): Vanberg, Christoph
Discussant: D. Marc Kilgour
The Prevalence and Consequences of Ballot Truncation in Ranked-Choice Elections
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Presenter: D. Marc Kilgour
Co-Author(s): Grégoire, Jean-Charles; Foley, Angèle M.
Discussant: Wilson Law
Issue Importance and Voting Behavior
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Presenter: Wilson Law
Co-Author(s): Flavin, Patrick
Discussant: Luis Aguiar-Conraria
Room: Hialeah
Analytical Narratives
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President-Elect Session
Ostrom vs. Habraken: Contrasting Views of Economic and Environmental Governance
Presenter: John Horowitz
Room: Gulfstream
Public Policy and Economic Consequences I
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Ray March
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President-Elect Session
Monitoring and the Formalization of Schools
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Presenter: Dillon Tauzin
Discussant: Yancheng Xiao
Network Centrality and Vaccination Probability
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Presenter: Yancheng Xiao
Discussant: Ray March
From neglect to control: Medical rent-seeking and the feeble-minded in the United States, 1880 to 1923
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Presenter: Ray March
Co-Author(s): Vincent Geloso; Ray March
Discussant: Noah Trudeau
To Death: The Cost to Consumers of Regulation of the Funeral Industry
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Presenter: Noah Trudeau
Discussant: Dillon Tauzin
Room: Churchill Downs
Federalism II
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James Klingensmith
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Legislation vs. Movements: A Difference-in-Difference Analysis of their impact on the Wage Gap
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Presenter: Patricia Saenz-Armstrong
Discussant: Luke Rodgers
Housing values and jurisdictional fragmentation
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Co-Author(s): Hatfield, John William; Kosec, Katrina
Discussant: James Klingensmith
Does Playing Chicken Work? Budget Impasses and Gubernatorial Elections
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Presenter: James Klingensmith
Discussant: Patricia Saenz-Armstrong
Room: Kentucky Suite
Virginia Political Economy
Session Chair:
Gordon Brady
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
George J. Stigler’s relationship to the Virginia school of political economy
Presenter: Gordon Brady
Co-Author(s): Brady, Gordon L.; Forte, Francesco
Discussant: Kazunobu Okubo
Abstract James M. Buchanan from Chicago to Virginia: Knight’s influence on Buchanan
Presenter: Gordon Brady
Co-Author(s): Gordon L. Brady and Francesco Forte
Discussant: Dwight Lee
An alternative diagrammatic exposition of Clarke tax
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Presenter: Kazunobu Okubo
Discussant: Dwight Lee
The Bitter Angels of our Nature
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Presenter: Dwight Lee
Discussant: Gordon Brady
Room: Keeneland
Experiments
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Conor Lennon
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Minimum Wages, Morality, and Efficiency: A Choice Experiment
Presenter: Conor Lennon
Co-Author(s): Fernandez, Jose; Gohmann, Stephan; Teltser, Keith
Discussant: Corey DeAngelis
The Effects of Regulations on Private School Choice Program Participation: Experimental Evidence from California and New York
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Presenter: Corey DeAngelis
Co-Author(s): Burke, Lindsey; Wolf, Patrick
Discussant: Douglas Norton
The Backward Hustle: An Experimental Investigation of Tax Code Notches and Labor Supply
Presenter: Douglas Norton
Co-Author(s): John Gibson and Robert White
Discussant: Conor Lennon
Plenary Session 3: Martin Paldam and Chris Doucouliagos on Meta Studies
Session Chair:
Roger Congleton
Session Organizer:
Roger Congleton
Economic Researchers are Human! Evidence from Meta Studies
Presenter: Martin Paldam
Economic Researchers are Human! Evidence from Meta Studies
Presenter: Chris Doucouliagos
Regressive Effects of Regulation
Session Chair:
Diana Thomas
Session Organizer:
Diana Thomas
Don’t TREAD on me: Investigating the effectiveness of tire pressure monitoring systems on vehicle crashes
Presenter: Sean Mulholland
Discussant: Patrick McLaughlin
The Supply of Regulation and the Extent of the Industry
Presenter: James Bailey
Discussant: Dustin Chambers
Regulation, entrepreneurship, and firm size
Presenter: Dustin Chambers
Co-Author(s): McLaughlin, Patrick; Richards, Tyler
Discussant: James Bailey
The Regulatory Census, Version 0.1
Presenter: Patrick McLaughlin
Discussant: Sean Mulholland
Room: Churchill Downs
Public Policy and Economic Consequences II
Session Chair:
Emily Hamilton
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Effects of Inclusionary Zoning in the Baltimore-Washington Region
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Presenter: Emily Hamilton
Discussant: Robert Hazel
Explaining an Outlier – Why does the U.S. System of Airport Governance and Economic Regulation Persist?
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Presenter: Robert Hazel
Discussant: Zachary Bartsch
Separating Uncertainties
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Presenter: Zachary Bartsch
Discussant: Feler Bose
Perverse Ecology in Opioid Addiction Treatments & Innovations around them
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Presenter: Feler Bose
Co-Author(s): Punyamurtula Kishore
Discussant: Emily Hamilton
Room: Kentucky Suite
Trust and Governance I
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George Clarke
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The impact of social capital on an MSE’s productivity: evidence from Zambia
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Presenter: George Clarke
Co-Author(s): Boudreaux, Chris; Jha, Anand
Discussant: Qijun Liu
How particularized trust spills over to generalized trust
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Presenter: Qijun Liu
Discussant: George Melios
Corruption and political trust in Europe in the era of austerity
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Presenter: George Melios
Discussant: Daniel Rothschild
Room: Regency Ballroom South
A Tribute to James Gwartney
Session Chair:
Joseph Connors
Session Organizer:
Daniel Bennett
Jim Gwartney: Happy Warrior and the Public Choice Revolution
Presenter: Joseph Connors
Jim Gwartney – Champion of Freedom, Markets, and Economic Education
Presenter: Brandon Brice
Honoring my intellectual father (and personal role model)
Presenter: Daniel Bennett
The Impact of James Gwartney on the Promotion of Freedom in Society, Economic Education, and his Students
Presenter: Hugo Moises Montesinos-Yufa
Notes on economic education: Comments in celebration of Jim Gwartney
Presenter: Douglas Norton
Common sense public choice
Presenter: Randall Holcombe
Learning from the Best: A Pedagogical Note on James Gwartney’s Approach to Economics Education
Presenter: Rosemarie Fike
Room: Seneca-Iroquois
Law & Econ III
Session Chair:
Bryan McCannon
Session Organizer:
Kevin Grier
The Political Economy of Death: Do Elected Coroners perform as well as Medical Examiners in determining suicide?
Presenter: Jose Fernandez
Discussant: Shannon Graham
Forfeit Efficiency for Revenue Generation? A Frontier Approach to Police Efficiency
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Presenter: Shannon Graham
Discussant: Bryan McCannon
Informational Value of Challenging an Incumbent Prosecutor
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Presenter: Bryan McCannon
Discussant: Alexander Cardazzi
The Efficacy of Newly Deployed Law Enforcement Resources
Presenter: Alexander Cardazzi
Co-Author(s): DeAngelo, Gregory; Harvey, Anna
Discussant: Jose Fernandez
Room: Hialeah
International Panel Data Studies
Session Chair:
Marcelin Joanis
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Do fiscal rules cause fiscal discipline over the electoral cycle?
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Presenter: Marcelin Joanis
Co-Author(s): Eklou, Kodjovi M.
Discussant: Imran Arif
The determinants of international migration: Unbundling the role of political, economic, and social institutions
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Presenter: Imran Arif
Discussant: Pablo Garofalo
Broken promises: regime announcements and exchange rates around elections
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Presenter: Pablo Garofalo
Co-Author(s): Jorge M. Streb
Discussant: Marcelin Joanis
Strategic use of debt: Evidence from presidential transitions in Latin America
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Presenter: Pablo Garofalo
Discussant: Marcelin Joanis
Room: Gulfstream
Corruption and Governance
Session Chair:
Robert Gillanders
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Greasing the Turbines? Corruption and Access to Electricity in Africa
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Presenter: Robert Gillanders
Co-Author(s): Cummins, Mark
Discussant: Gamze Kargın-Akkoç
Rule of Law, Regulatory Capture and Electricity Theft
Presenter: Gamze Kargın-Akkoç
Co-Author(s): Oğuz, Fuat
Discussant: Andre Assumpcao
Estimating the Effect of Discretion in Public Spending on Government Performance: Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
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Presenter: Andre Assumpcao
Co-Author(s): Biderman, Ciro; Avelino, George
Discussant: Vitezslav Titl
Political Connections and Competition on Public Procurement Markets
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Presenter: Vitezslav Titl
Co-Author(s): Baranek, Bruno
Discussant: Robert Gillanders
Room: Keeneland
Ignorance, Illusions, and Politics I
Session Chair:
Scott King
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Cults of Personality
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Presenter: Scott King
Discussant: Nobuhiro Mizuno
Why do voters elect less qualified candidates?
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Presenter: Nobuhiro Mizuno
Co-Author(s): Okazawa, Ryosuke
Discussant: James Endersby
Political Information Costs and Turnout: Reconsidering the Calculus of Voting
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Presenter: James Endersby
Co-Author(s): Kim, Gidong
Discussant: Shane Sanders
Informed Voters, Uninformed Voters, and Electoral Outcomes: A Natural Experiment from Major League Baseball MVP Voting
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Presenter: Shane Sanders
Co-Author(s): Joel Potter
Discussant: Scott King
Culture, Institutions and Development II
Session Chair:
Daniel Bennett
Session Organizer:
Daniel Bennett
Geography, Institutions and Economic Development
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Presenter: James Gwartney
Co-Author(s): Montesinos, Hugo
Discussant: Christian Bjørnskov
Does Economic Freedom boost Growth for Everyone?
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Presenter: Christian Bjørnskov
Co-Author(s): Bergh, Andreas
Discussant: Joseph Connors
The Process of Development and Implications for Worldwide Income Inequality
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Presenter: Joseph Connors
Co-Author(s): Gwartney, James; Montesinos, Hugo
Discussant: Daniel Bennett
Egalitarian institutions, cultural norms & economic gender inequality
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Presenter: Daniel Bennett
Co-Author(s): Matthew Bonick
Discussant: Andreas Bergh
Room: Regency South B
Freedom, Politics, and Growth
Session Chair:
Wilson Law
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Evolution of Economic Liberalization and Growth
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Presenter: Wilson Law
Discussant: Dennis Coates
Components of Economic Freedom Impact on corporate performance: the evidence from Russian public companies
Presenter: Dennis Coates
Co-Author(s): Bykova, Anna
Discussant: Ilia Murtazashvili
Are individualistic societies more democratic?
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Presenter: Ilia Murtazashvili
Co-Author(s): Salahodjaev, Raufhon; Nikolaev, Boris; Cai, Meina; Murtazashvili, Jennifer
Discussant: Wilson Law
Room: Regency South A
Memorial Session on the Contributions of Larry Kenny
Session Chair:
Roger Congleton
Session Organizer:
Edward Lopez
Understanding Political Institutions and their Effects: The Intellectual Contributions of Lawrence Kenny
Presenter: Joshua Hall
Empirical Public Choice and Generous Mentoring: How Larry Kenny Excelled at Both
Presenter: Edward Lopez
Public School Finance in Florida: Larry Kenny’s Contribution
Presenter: Randall Holcombe
Room: Churchill Downs
Constitutional Political Economy
Session Chair:
Laura Jenkins
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Paradise lost: the effect of judicial review on congressional deliberation over the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate
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Presenter: Laura Jenkins
Co-Author(s): Jenkins, Laura
Discussant: Andrew Young
Sovereignty versus Commitment
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Presenter: Andrew Young
Discussant: Andrew Jonelis
Signal of Strength? Executive Control of the Legislature and Growth
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Presenter: Andrew Jonelis
Discussant: Laura Jenkins
Room: Seneca-Iroquois
Public Finance
Session Chair:
Kaetana Leontjeva
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Fiscal Truth: Personal Fiscal Information Curbs Enthusiasm for Tax and Spend
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Presenter: Kaetana Leontjeva
Discussant: Roger Congleton
On the Causes of Social Security: Post Sample Forecasts of the Congleton and Shughart Model
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Presenter: Roger Congleton
Co-Author(s): Marsella, Alex; Kim, Youngshin
Discussant: Gary Wagner
Campaigning For Retirement: State Teacher Union Campaign Contributions and Pension Generosity
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Presenter: Gary Wagner
Co-Author(s): Elder, Erick M.
Discussant: Kaetana Leontjeva
Room: Hialeah
The Economics of the Past
Session Chair:
Ennio Piano
Session Organizer:
Ennio Piano
The Role of the Executive Branch’s Settlement Authority in the Interest-Group Theory of Government
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Presenter: Bryan Cutsinger
Discussant: Ennio Piano
Inflationary finance in revolutionary France
Presenter: Louis Rouanet
Co-Author(s): Bryan Cutsinger ; Joshua Ingber
Discussant: Rosolino Candela
Productive Specialization, Peaceful Cooperation, and the Problem of the Predatory State: Lessons from Comparative Historical Political Economy
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Presenter: Rosolino Candela
Co-Author(s): Boettke, Peter
Discussant: Louis Rouanet
Filling the ranks: The Remplacement Militaire in post-revolutionary France
Presenter: Louis Rouanet
Co-Author(s): Ennio Piano
Discussant: Bryan Cutsinger
Room: Kentucky Suite
Smith, Buchanan, and Ethics
Session Chair:
Nimai Mehta
Session Organizer:
Yong Yoon
The Extent of the Market and Ethics
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Presenter: Yong Yoon
Discussant: Nimai Mehta
The Productive-Unproductive Puzzle in Adam Smith: What have we Missed?
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Presenter: Nimai Mehta
Discussant: David Coker
“From Convention to Social Contract”
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Presenter: David Coker
Discussant: David Levy
James Buchanan and the Return to an Economics of Natural Equals
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Presenter: David Levy
Co-Author(s): Peart, Sandra J.
Discussant: Yong Yoon
Room: Gulfstream
Conflict, Elections and Growth
Session Chair:
Marek Kaminski
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
PR versus SMDs: Tradeoff between higher turnout and lower quality of votes? Evidence from the Polish local elections of 2014 and 2010.
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Presenter: Marek Kaminski
Co-Author(s): Flis, Jarek
Discussant: Kim Leonie Kellermann
Immigration and Anti-Immigrant Sentiments – Evidence from the 2017 German Parliamentary Election
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Presenter: Kim Leonie Kellermann
Co-Author(s): Winter, Simon
Discussant: Zachary Schaller
Bargaining and conflict with up-front investments
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Presenter: Zachary Schaller
Co-Author(s): Skaperdas, Stergios
Discussant: Marek Kaminski
Room: Keeneland
Enforcing the Law
Session Chair:
Michael Hasday
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Rank-Order Method for Appellate Subset Selection
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Presenter: Michael Hasday
Discussant: Perry Ferrell
Beat cops and beat reporters: The impact of local press on police behavior
Presenter: Perry Ferrell
Discussant: Julia Norgaard
The Impact of Plea Bargaining on the Reduction of Case Backlog in the Ugandan Judicial System
Presenter: Julia Norgaard
Discussant: Bryan McCannon
Who Wants to Plea Bargain?
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Presenter: Bryan McCannon
Discussant: Michael Hasday
Regulation and Politics
Session Chair:
Ted Rossier
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
From the quad to the courts: speech codes and lawsuits at public universities
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Presenter: Ted Rossier
Discussant: John Beck
Voting on carbon taxes in the state of Washington
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Presenter: John Beck
Discussant: Shelby Grossman
The Collusion Dilemma: Theory with Evidence from Informal Markets in Lagos, Nigeria
Presenter: Shelby Grossman
Co-Author(s): Grossman, Shelby; Holland, Alisha
Discussant: Christopher John Cruz
Feeling Squeezed? Impact of Social Security Benefit Cuts on Labor Supply and Savings of the Elderly
Presenter: Christopher John Cruz
Co-Author(s): Cruz, Christopher John
Discussant: Ted Rossier
Room: Regency South B
Trust and Governance II
Session Chair:
Laurenz Derksen
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Origins of Ethnic Clientelism
Presenter: Laurenz Derksen
Co-Author(s): Bonick, Matthew
Discussant: Wanlin Lin
Institutional Diversity of the Redevelopment of Urban Villages in China
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Presenter: Wanlin Lin
Discussant: Alexander Craig
Is Social Capital Underproduced and Can it Be Cultivated?
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Presenter: Alexander Craig
Co-Author(s): Haeffele, Stefanie
Discussant: Roberto Zotti
The sacred and the profane of budget cycles: evidence from Italian municipalities
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Presenter: Roberto Zotti
Co-Author(s): Revelli Federico
Discussant: Laurenz Derksen
Room: Regency South A
Theory and Elections II
Session Chair:
Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Election inversions in a parliamentary democracy with proportional representation
Presenter: Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard
Discussant: Yasushi Asako
Strategic Ambiguity with Probabilistic Voting
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Presenter: Yasushi Asako
Discussant: Tetsuro Okazaki
Valence, Endorsement and Media Diversity in Election
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Presenter: Tetsuro Okazaki
Discussant: Steven Brams
The Excess Method: A Multiwinner Approval Voting Procedure to Allocate Wasted Votes
Presenter: Steven Brams
Co-Author(s): Brill, Markus
Discussant: Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard
Room: Kentucky Suite
Wagnerian Political Economy
Session Chair:
Diana Thomas
Session Organizer:
Diana Thomas
The Tax Code as an Emergent Phenomenon
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Presenter: Jeremy Horpedahl
Discussant: Diana Thomas
The Fiscal Squeeze: State Budgets between Fiscal Illusion, Fiscal Commons, and the Tyranny of Experts
Presenter: Diana Thomas
Co-Author(s): Thomas, Michael D.
Discussant: Adam Martin
Talk in Political Economy: Spurious Speech or Decisive Deliberation?
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Presenter: Adam Martin
Discussant: Richard Wagner
Emergence and Entanglement in a Theory of Political Economy
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Presenter: Richard Wagner
Discussant: Jeremy Horpedahl
Room: Seneca-Iroquois
Political Economy of the Korean Peninsula
Session Chair:
Yong Yoon
Session Organizer:
Yong Yoon
North Korea’s National Identity and Nuclear Weapons
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Presenter: Pyungse (Daniel) Cho
Discussant: Bong Yoon
Socialist activism in S. Korea
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Presenter: Bong Yoon
Discussant: Young Back Choi
Innovation Policies in South Korea
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Presenter: Young Back Choi
Discussant: Yong Yoon
Denuclearization and Ambiguity
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Presenter: Yong Yoon
Discussant: Pyungse (Daniel) Cho
Room: Hialeah
Ignorance, Illusions, and Politics II
Session Chair:
William McAndrew
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Does the Hayek-Friedman Hypothesis Apply to the Internet?
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Presenter: William McAndrew
Co-Author(s): Klingensmith, J. Zachary
Discussant: Olga Shvetsova
A heresthetic theory of constitution and treaty making
Presenter: Olga Shvetsova
Co-Author(s): Farrer. Benjamin; Carol Mershon, Carol
Discussant: M. Garrett Roth
Everything is Broken: Social Desirability Bias and Public Opinion Polling, 2012 vs. 2016
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Presenter: M. Garrett Roth
Discussant: Anna Nowak
You failed! Government Satisfaction and Party Preferences Facing Islamist Terrorism
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Presenter: Anna Nowak
Discussant: William McAndrew
Room: Churchill Downs
Municipal Governance
Session Chair:
Corey DeAngelis
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Economic Impact of City-County Consolidations: A Synthetic Control Approach
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Presenter: Joshua Hall
Co-Author(s): Matti, Josh; Zhou, Yang
Discussant: Weijie Luo
Technical Efficiency of U.S. Municipal Governments
Presenter: Caitlin O’Loughlin
Co-Author(s): Wilson, Paul W.
Discussant: Corey DeAngelis
Determinants of government size: does business experience matter?
Presenter: Weijie Luo
Co-Author(s): Zhang, Guangnan
Discussant: Joshua Hall
Which schools participate? An analysis of private school voucher program participation decisions across seven locations
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Presenter: Corey DeAngelis
Discussant: Caitlin O’Loughlin
Room: Gulfstream
Sociology and Public Policy
Session Chair:
Qijun Liu
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Social mobility in China
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Presenter: Qijun Liu
Discussant: Dagmar Schulze Heuling
Power – A Missed Criterion for Common-Pool Resources Institutions?
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Presenter: Dagmar Schulze Heuling
Discussant: Ryan Murphy
Room: Keeneland
Public Policy and Economic Consequences III
Session Chair:
Vasyl Kvartiuk
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The political economy of phasing out energy subsidies for groundwater irrigation in Iran
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Presenter: Vasyl Kvartiuk
Co-Author(s): Vasyl Kvartiuk
Discussant: Tomomi Miyazaki
Interactions between Monetary and Fiscal Stimulus and Regional Employment: Evidence from Japan
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Presenter: Tomomi Miyazaki
Co-Author(s): Haruo Kondo
Discussant: Jacob Burgdorf
Exclusive Territories and Efficiency: Evidence from the brewing industry
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Presenter: Jacob Burgdorf
Discussant: Vasyl Kvartiuk