2022 Conference Program Details
Conference Schedule | List of Participants
- Thursday, March 10
- 1:00pm – 6:30pm
- 2:00pm – 3:30pm
- 4:00pm – 5:45pm
- 6:00pm – 7:30pm
- 7:30pm – 11:59pm
- Friday, March 11
- 7:00am – 5:00pm
- 7:00am – 8:00am
- 8:00am – 9:30am *
- 9:30am – 10:00am
- 10:00am – 11:20am
- 11:20am – 12:50pm *
- 1:00pm – 2:30pm *
- 2:30pm – 2:40pm
- 2:40pm – 4:10pm *
- 4:10pm – 4:20pm
- 4:20pm – 5:50pm *
- 5:30pm – 8:30pm *
- 6:00pm – 11:59pm
- Saturday, March 12
- 7:00am – 8:00am
- 7:00am – 5:00pm
- 8:00am – 9:30am *
- 9:30am – 10:00am
- 10:00am – 11:20am
- 11:20am – 11:30am
- 11:30am – 1:00pm *
- 1:00pm – 2:30pm
- 2:40pm – 4:10pm *
- 4:10pm – 4:20pm
- 4:20pm – 5:50pm *
- 6:00pm – 7:30pm
- 7:30pm – 11:59pm
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Opening Plenary Session with Bryan Caplan on Why Tiebout Was Wrong, sponsored by Liberty Fund and the Political Economy Research Institute at Middle Tennessee State University
Session Chair:
William Shughart
Session Organizer:
Edward Lopez
Conference Welcome, Special Introductions
Presenter: Edward Lopez
President’s Welcome and Plenary Speaker Introduction
Presenter: William Shughart
Plenary Talk: “Tiebout Was Wrong… But Why?”
Presenter: Bryan Caplan
Friday, March 11, 2022
International Economic Policy
Session Chair:
Shuichiro Nishioka
Session Organizer:
Arye Hillman
The Political Effects of Trade Protectionism with Japan in the 1980s
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Presenter: Shuichiro Nishioka
Co-Author(s): Eric Olson
Discussant: Michael Neugart
Political polarization and international cooperation
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Presenter: Michael Neugart
Co-Author(s): Carsten Hefeker
Discussant: Ben Zissimos
Dictators under the weather
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Presenter: Ben Zissimos
Co-Author(s): Kishore Gawande
Discussant: Shaomeng Jia
Hope Springs Eternal: A Cross Country Study on Commodity Windfall and Entrepreneurship
Presenter: Shaomeng Jia
Co-Author(s): Yulin Hou; Joshua Bedi
Discussant: Shuichiro Nishioka
Room: Rail Yard A
Criminal Law and Economics
Session Chair:
Lucas Rentschler
Session Organizer:
Lucas Rentschler
How policing incentives affect crime, measurement, and justice
Presenter: Lucas Rentschler
Co-Author(s): Jordan Adamson
Discussant: Jason Aimone
Prosecutorial discretion and crime decisions
Presenter: Stanton Hudja
Co-Author(s): Jason Aimone, Lucas Rentschler, Jason Ralston and Charles North
Discussant: Pablo Cuellar Tapia
Dynamics of public goods contributions under probabilistic punishment
Presenter: Jason Aimone
Co-Author(s): Lucas Rentschler, Jason Ralston and Charles North
Prosecutorial discretion and overcharging in plea bargaining
Presenter: Pablo Cuellar Tapia
Co-Author(s): Lucas Rentschler
Discussant: Stanton Hudja
Room: Summit C
Pandemic Politics
Session Chair:
Rachael Behr
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Experts, Voters, and Mask Mandates: Evidence From State Level Policies During The COVID-19 Pandemic
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Presenter: Rachael Behr
Discussant: Vitor Melo
The Political Economy of Nursing Home Certificate-of-Need Laws
Presenter: Vitor Melo
Discussant: Gavin Roberts
Decomposing Causal Estimate of the Effect of Stay-at-Home Orders on COVID-19 Deaths
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Presenter: Gavin Roberts
Co-Author(s): Anthony Frazier, Gavin Roberts, Julian Chan
Discussant: Rachael Behr
Room: Rail Yard C
Regulation III
Session Chair:
Jeremy Kidd
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
“Black Swans” or “Pink Elephants”: Exactly What Are We Regulating?
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Presenter: Jeremy Kidd
Discussant: James Bailey
The Long View of Job Lock in the US
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Presenter: James Bailey
Co-Author(s): Gregory Colman; Dhaval Dave
Discussant: Ilia Murtazashvili
Public choice and pandemics
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Presenter: Ilia Murtazashvili
Co-Author(s): Yang Zhou
Discussant: Sami Dakhlia
Charity hazard, moral hazard, and self-selection in insurance markets: evidence from commercial fisheries
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Presenter: Sami Dakhlia
Co-Author(s): Akbar Marvasti
Discussant: Jeremy Kidd
Room: North Coast A
Alternatives to Simple Majority Rule
Session Chair:
Michael Makovi
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Bilaterally Qualified Majority: A Calculus of Consent Model of Repeal
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Presenter: Michael Makovi
Discussant: D. Marc Kilgour
Weighted Scoring Elections: Is Borda Best?
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Presenter: D. Marc Kilgour
Co-Author(s): Jean-Charles Grégoire; Angèle M. Foley
Discussant: Dmitriy Vorobyev
Participation Quorum when Voting is Costly
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Presenter: Dmitriy Vorobyev
Co-Author(s): Andrei Matveenko; Azamat Valei
Discussant: Chang Geun Song
The Frequency of Cycles and Condorcet Inconsistency with IRV: in FairVote and Politbarometer Data
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Presenter: Chang Geun Song
Discussant: Michael Makovi
Room: Rail Yard B
Constitutional Political Economy
Session Chair:
John Meadowcroft
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Slavery, race and the politics of exchange in James M. Buchanan’s constitutional political economy
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Presenter: John Meadowcroft
Discussant: Jonathan Plante
Constitutional Erosion in the Debt State
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Presenter: Jonathan Plante
Discussant: Gordon Brady
Gordon Tullock: The Subjectivist Homo Economicus
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Presenter: Gordon Brady
Discussant: Amjad Toukan
Empirical Tests of the Theory of Minority Autocratic Rule in Tribal Societies
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Presenter: Amjad Toukan
Discussant: John Meadowcroft
Room: North Coast B
Elections I
Session Chair:
Richard Jankowski
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Testing Competing Theories: Why Vote?
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Presenter: Richard Jankowski
Discussant: Paul Redmond
The Impact of Voter Turnout on Referendum Outcomes
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Presenter: Paul Redmond
Co-Author(s): Vincent Munley; Abian Garcia-Rodriguez
Discussant: Cameron Tilley
The polling booth aka the preference store
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Presenter: Cameron Tilley
Discussant: James Rockey
The Political Economy of Felon Disenfranchisement
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Presenter: James Rockey
Co-Author(s): Arpita Ghosh
Discussant: Richard Jankowski
Room: Summit B
Economic Development I
Session Chair:
Andreas Bergh
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
An Analysis of Free Economic Zones and Economic Development
Presenter: Julia Norgaard
Co-Author(s): Alexander Cartwright
Discussant: Erika Barker
Internet Connection & Appalachian Education: Graduation Despite Precipitation
Presenter: Erika Barker
Discussant: Patrick O’Reilly
Assessing Income and Employment Effects of Natural Gas Booms and Policy in West Virginia
Presenter: Patrick O’Reilly
Co-Author(s): Joshua Hall
Discussant: Julia Norgaard
Political and Personal Behavior
Session Chair:
Nicolaus Tideman
Session Organizer:
Arye Hillman
You’ll never walk alone: loneliness, religion and economics
Presenter: Annie Tubadji
Discussant: Anne Bradley
The collective action issues of American slavery: Learning from Harriet Martineau
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Presenter: David Levy
Discussant: Bryan Cutsinger
Protecting private property rights under state ownership: Evidence from Chinese occupational choice
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Presenter: Linghui Han
Discussant: Annie Tubadji
Room: Summit B
The Twitterverse
Session Chair:
Benjamin Läpple
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The (Political) Tribes of Twitter: Political Leanings, Group Size, and the Political Economy of Twitter Debates in Germany
Presenter: Benjamin Läpple
Discussant: Przemysław Siemaszko
#IamLGBT: Social networks and coming out in a hostile environment
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Presenter: Przemysław Siemaszko
Co-Author(s): Jan Gromadzki
Discussant: Jorge Sabat
Politicians’ Willingness to Agree: Evidence from the interactions in Twitter of Chilean Deputies
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Presenter: Jorge Sabat
Co-Author(s): Pablo Henríquez; José Patricio Sullivan
Discussant: Benjamin Läpple
Room: Rail Yard A
Growth of Government and the Language of Intervention
Session Chair:
Robert Gmeiner
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Dynamics of Dominance and Compromise
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Presenter: Robert Gmeiner
Discussant: Stephen Zimmer
The Political Economy of Language Policy and Planning
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Presenter: Stephen Zimmer
Discussant: John Horowitz
Governing the built environment: physical form, territorial control, and shared understanding
Presenter: John Horowitz
Discussant: Juho Alasalmi
Self-Signaling and Expressive Voting for Redistribution
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Presenter: Juho Alasalmi
Discussant: Robert Gmeiner
Room: Rail Yard B
Social Activism and Coups d’État
Session Chair:
Sargis Karavardanyan
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Sino-US Economic competition and protests in Africa: evidence from large-N empirical estimations
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Presenter: Sargis Karavardanyan
Discussant: Pierre Mandon
Internal Conflicts and Shocks. A Narrative Meta-Analysis
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Presenter: Pierre Mandon
Co-Author(s): Camille Laville
Discussant: Joseph Newhard
Overcoming the free rider problem in defense: lessons from the war damage insurance market
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Presenter: Joseph Newhard
Discussant: Sargis Karavardanyan
Room: Rail Yard C
Elections III
Session Chair:
Marco Frank
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Competition and electoral convergence between politicians and parties
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Presenter: Marco Frank
Co-Author(s): David Stadelmann
Discussant: Somdeep Chatterjee
Does Increased Credibility of Elections Lead to Higher Political Competition? Evidence from India
Presenter: Somdeep Chatterjee
Co-Author(s): Mehreen Mookerjee; Manini Ojha; Sanket Roy
Discussant: Chandan Jha
Condoning corruption: who votes for corrupt political parties?
Presenter: Chandan Jha
Discussant: Marco Frank
Room: North Coast A
Public Finance and the Public Debt
Session Chair:
Jonathan Plante
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
In Defense of Vulgarity: James M. Buchanan and the Political Economic Analysis of Public Debt
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Presenter: Jonathan Plante
Co-Author(s): Peter J. Boettke
Costs of collective decision-making in Virginia’s education funding formula: Relationship between local fiscal effort and high school graduation rates
Presenter: Zachary Haney
Discussant: Jonathan Plante
Room: North Coast B
Tax Compliance and the Underground Economy
Session Chair:
Abu Bakkar Siddique
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Shaping Tax Morale: Effect of Corruption As Experience, Spilling Over, and Culture
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Presenter: Abu Bakkar Siddique
Discussant: Friedrich Schneider
Implausible Large Differences in the Sizes of Underground Economies in Highly Developed European Countries? A Comparison of Different Estimation Methods
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Presenter: Friedrich Schneider
Discussant: Maria Tackett
Immigration and Informal Economy
Presenter: Maria Tackett
Co-Author(s): Alex Padilla
Discussant: Abu Bakkar Siddique
Bunching: Taxpayer Behavior Change. A review
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Presenter: José Torres-Remírez
Room: Railhead
Subnational Governance
Session Chair:
Lars P. Feld
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Do Party Ties Increase Transfer Receipts in Cooperative Federalism? – Evidence from Germany
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Presenter: Lars P. Feld
Co-Author(s): Yannick Bury; Ekkehard Koehler
Discussant: Josh Matti
Consolidated city-county governments and economic stability
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Presenter: Josh Matti
Co-Author(s): Amir Neto
Discussant: Walter Melnik
The homevoter hypothesis and local elected officials
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Presenter: Walter Melnik
Discussant: Xin Han
Targeted Poverty Alleviation under Authoritarianism: How State Engages with Society in Chinese Villages?
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Presenter: Xin Han
Discussant: Lars P. Feld
Room: Piedmont
Regulation II
Session Chair:
Danielle Zanzalari
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Motivations for Loan Loss Provisioning During the Financial Crisis
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Presenter: Danielle Zanzalari
Co-Author(s): Andrew Swanson
Discussant: Siobhain Lash
Environmental Racism: Civic Associations and Alternative Institutional Approaches in Louisiana
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Presenter: Siobhain Lash
Discussant: Rania Al-Bawab
Zakat: A Case Study of Constraining Free Riding in Charity
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Presenter: Rania Al-Bawab
Discussant: Danielle Zanzalari
Room: Summit C
Seventh Annual Elinor and Vincent Ostrom Prize for Best Combined Paper and Presentation by a Graduate Student
Session Chair:
President-Elect Session
Session Organizer:
Lynne Kiesling
Cosa Nostra Courts
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Presenter: Henry Thompson
Discussant: David Skarbek
No Surprises, Please: Voting Costs and Electoral Turnout
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Presenter: Valentin Lindlacher
Co-Author(s): Alipour, Jean-Victor
Discussant: Christoph Vanberg
Machine Gun Politics: Why Politicians Cooperate with Criminal Groups
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Presenter: Jessie Bullock
Discussant: Kevin Grier
Spatial Analysis of Occupational Regulation
Session Chair:
Darwyyn Deyo
Session Organizer:
Darwyyn Deyo
Does Massage Therapist Licensing Reduce Crime? A Natural Experiment in Three States
Presenter: Darwyyn Deyo
Co-Author(s): Kofi Ampaabeng, Conor Norris, and Edward Timmons
Discussant: Alicia Plemmons
Access to care and physician mobility under the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
Presenter: Sriparna Ghosh
Co-Author(s): Darwyyn Deyo
Discussant: Noah Trudeau
Occupational Licensing and Intra-MSA Effects: Massage Therapists in the US
Presenter: Noah Trudeau
Discussant: Sriparna Ghosh
Temporary Provisions Affecting Scope of Practice and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Presenter: Alicia Plemmons
Co-Author(s): Angela Shoulders, Haimiti Aerfate, and Orgul Ozturk
Discussant: Darwyyn Deyo
Room: Summit B
Polycentricity
Session Chair:
Alexander Schaefer
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Polycentric Governance as an Adaptive Response to Complexity
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Presenter: Alexander Schaefer
Co-Author(s): Dries Daems
Discussant: Jaime Carini
Thinking like an artisan: The Ostroms’ approach to political economy
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Presenter: Jaime Carini
Discussant: Elena Prenovitz
Degrowth, Diversity and Decentralization – Polycentric Governance in a Steady-State-World
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Presenter: Justus Enninga
Co-Author(s): Enninga, Justus
Discussant: Vlad Tarko
Polycentric Status Contests
Presenter: Vlad Tarko
Discussant: Alexander Schaefer
Room: Rail Yard A
The Administrative State
Session Chair:
Charles Keckler
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Independent agency rulemaking under unitary or plural leadership: the asymmetric effects of public comments
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Presenter: Charles Keckler
Discussant: Erik Lakomaa
When the State Fines Itself: The Economics of Administrative Fines in the Public Sector
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Presenter: Erik Lakomaa
Discussant: James Endersby
The impeachment game: An extensive form representation of American legislative removal of public officials
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Presenter: James Endersby
Co-Author(s): Joseph P. Harrison
Discussant: Feler Bose
Preference Alignment or Executive Dominance: Rulemaking provisions in State Administrative Procedure Acts
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Presenter: Feler Bose
Co-Author(s): Brian Baugus, Jeffry Jacob
Discussant: Charles Keckler
Room: Rail Yard B
Social Choice
Session Chair:
Nathan Atkinson
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Informative Social Choice
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Presenter: Nathan Atkinson
Co-Author(s): Scott Ganz
Discussant: Roberto Peroncini
Compute, Evaluate, and then Decide. A logical and reasonable basis for making Social Choices
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Presenter: Roberto Peroncini
Discussant: Eric Alston
An Organizational Coase Theorem: Constitutional Constraints as Increasing in Exit Costs
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Presenter: Eric Alston
Discussant: Nathan Atkinson
Room: Summit C
Games
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Every Normal-Form Game Has a Pareto-Optimal Nonmyopic Equilibrium
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Presenter: Steven Brams
Co-Author(s): Mehmet Ismail
Discussant: Amjad Toukan
A Theory of Minority Autocratic Rule in Tribal Societies
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Presenter: Amjad Toukan
Discussant: Steven Brams
Room: Rail Yard C
Elections II
Session Chair:
Valentin Lindlacher
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
No Surprises, Please: Voting Costs and Electoral Turnout
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Presenter: Valentin Lindlacher
Co-Author(s): Alipour, Jean-Victor
Discussant: Ramon DEGENNARO
What Do Voting Results of the 2016 Election Tell Us About Bias Response Teams?
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Presenter: Ramon DEGENNARO
Co-Author(s): Reid Parker
Discussant: James Rockey
Power and the money, money and the power: \\ A network analysis of donations from American corporate to political leaders
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Presenter: James Rockey
Co-Author(s): Nadia Zakir
Discussant: Steven Sprick Schuster
The Persuasive Power of the Fourth Estate: Estimating the Effect of Newspaper Endorsements: 1956-1980
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Presenter: Steven Sprick Schuster
Discussant: Valentin Lindlacher
Room: North Coast A
Corruption
Session Chair:
Edwar Enrique Escalante
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
How do insurgencies evolve and persist?
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Presenter: Edwar Escalante
Discussant: Robert Gillanders
Money Down the Drain: Corruption and Access to Water in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Presenter: Robert Gillanders
Co-Author(s): Michael Breen
Discussant: George Clarke
Are Women More Reticent than Men?
Presenter: George Clarke
Discussant: Zeljko Bogetic
The good, the bad, and the ugly: new evidence on alternative views of corruption
Presenter: Zeljko Bogetic
Co-Author(s): Dominik Naeher
Discussant: Edwar Escalante
Room: North Coast B
Macro Perspectives
Session Chair:
Benjamin Läpple
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Fiscal Forecasts and Political Cycles in the European Union: Evidence from EDP Budgetary Forecasts
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Presenter: Benjamin Läpple
Discussant: Niklas Elert
Entrepreneurship and cultural change
Presenter: Niklas Elert
Co-Author(s): Wernberg, Joakim
Discussant: Linghui Han
Physical vs. institutional public goods provision under monopoly: Evidence from China
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Presenter: Linghui Han
Discussant: Joseph Newhard
An interest-group theory of central bank independence and the national debt limit
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Presenter: Joseph Newhard
Discussant: Benjamin Läpple
Optimal Taxation for Real Governments
Session Chair:
Randall Holcombe
Session Organizer:
Roger Congleton
Optimal Taxation for Ordinary Voters
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Presenter: Roger Congleton
Discussant: Randall Holcombe
Non-Optimal Tax Theory
Presenter: Randall Holcombe
Discussant: Roger Congleton
Optimal Taxation of Assets
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Presenter: Nicolaus Tideman
Co-Author(s): Thomas Mecherikunnel
Discussant: Laurent Simula
Simple Conditions for Identifying Improving Tax Reforms
Presenter: Laurent Simula
Co-Author(s): Sören Blomquist; Aart Gerritsen.
Discussant: Nicolaus Tideman
Room: Summit B
Military Matters
Session Chair:
Mark Crain
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Military Conscription and Armed Conflicts
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Presenter: Mark Crain
Co-Author(s): Nicole Crain
Discussant: Garrett Wood
Cartelization and the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Presenter: Garrett Wood
Discussant: Robin Grier
Crawling towards Weber? Mexican State Capacity in the 19th Century
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Presenter: Robin Grier
Discussant: Mark Crain
Room: Rail Yard A
Regulation
Session Chair:
Moiz Bhai
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
New Evidence on Occupational Licensing Reform and Labor Supply
Presenter: Moiz Bhai
Co-Author(s): Mitch Mitchell
Discussant: Vitor Melo
The Effect of Self-Service Gasoline Bans
Presenter: Vitor Melo
Discussant: Kevin Willardsen
Drink and Drive Away: Effects of Lowering the BAC in Utah
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Presenter: Kevin Willardsen
Co-Author(s): Javier Portillo; Wisnu Sugiarto
Discussant: Haibin Jiang
Tax-Based Marriage Incentives in the Affordable Care Act
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Presenter: Haibin Jiang
Co-Author(s): Isaac, Elliott
Discussant: Moiz Bhai
Room: Summit C
Public Health
Session Chair:
Scott King
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Democracy and Diseases
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Presenter: Scott King
Discussant: Artyom Jelnov
Product Safety Regulation or Protectionism?
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Presenter: Artyom Jelnov
Co-Author(s): Hatsor, Limor
Discussant: Agnitra Roy Choudhury
Determinants of Scope of Practice Reforms
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Presenter: Agnitra Roy Choudhury
Discussant: Scott King
Room: Rail Yard B
Environmental Externalities
Session Chair:
William Tilson
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Carbon Non-Neutrality
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Presenter: William Tilson
Discussant: Toshihiro Ihori
Environmental quality, dirty consumption and abatement attempts in an inequality economy
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Presenter: Toshihiro Ihori
Discussant: William Tilson
Blocking the Sun
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Presenter: William Tilson
Discussant: Toshihiro Ihori
Room: Rail Yard C
Economic History
Session Chair:
Gabriel Benzecry
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The King’s Gambit: Rationalizing the Fall of the Templars
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Presenter: Gabriel Benzecry
Co-Author(s): Marcus Shera
Discussant: Protik Nandy
“The Era of Good Feelings”- Was American Growth Finance Led?
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Presenter: Protik Nandy
Co-Author(s): Caleb Bugg
Discussant: Nathaniel Smith
Encompassing interest and monetary policy: King Alfred’s recoinage
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Presenter: Nathaniel Smith
Discussant: Peter Hazlett
Land Demarcating Institutions in Colonial America
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Presenter: Peter Hazlett
Co-Author(s): Peter T. Leeson
Discussant: Gabriel Benzecry
Room: North Coast A
Electoral Institutions
Session Chair:
Bernard Grofman
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Empirics of Gerrymandering, Can Social Science Evidence Be Trusted
Presenter: Bernard Grofman
Co-Author(s): Lisa Handley; David Lublin
Discussant: Benjamin Ogden
Endogenous Electoral Factions: A Foundation for Ethical Voting
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Presenter: Benjamin Ogden
Co-Author(s): Timothy Feddersen
Discussant: Cesar Martinelli
Accountability and Grand Corruption
Presenter: Cesar Martinelli
Discussant: Bernard Grofman
Room: North Coast B
Population Dynamics
Session Chair:
Steven Brownell
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Migration and polarization: how immigration affects electoral outcomes in the 21st century
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Presenter: Steven Brownell
Retirement Planning under Credit Constraint: Financial Literacy in United States
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Presenter: Muhammad Nawaz
Discussant: Steven Brownell
Room: Railhead
Economic Development II
Session Chair:
Andreas Bergh
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Who Is More Right about World Development? Optimism vs. Pessimism vs. Education
Presenter: Andreas Bergh
Co-Author(s): Christina Anzén
Discussant: Eunjee Kwon
The Unintended Consequences of Post-Disaster Policies for Spatial Sorting
Presenter: Eunjee Kwon
Co-Author(s): Marce Henkell; Pierre Magontier
Discussant: Jeremy Horpedahl
Do targeted economic development incentives work as advertised?
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Presenter: Jeremy Horpedahl
Co-Author(s): Matthew Mitchell; Olivia Gonzalez
Discussant: Daniel Sanchez Pinol
Show me the Money! The Effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program on the Labor Market in Ecuador
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Presenter: Daniel Sanchez Pinol
Discussant: Andreas Bergh
Room: Piedmont
Competitiveness, Incentives and Economic Freedom
Session Chair:
Dennis Pearson
Session Organizer:
Dennis Pearson
Competitiveness and Employability
Presenter: Elif Demiral
Discussant: Matt Hampton
The Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Fertility
Presenter: Matt Hampton
Discussant: Dennis Pearson
Competitive Incentives of Economic Freedom for Boarding States: The Case of Tennessee vs. Kentucky
Presenter: Dennis Pearson
Discussant: Chanita Holmes
The effects of state-level earned income tax credits on sexually transmitted infections
Presenter: Chanita Holmes
Discussant: Elif Demiral
Graduate Student Reception (By Invitation) Sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies
Room: Summit D
The Future of Public Choice Program and Reception sponsored by IHS (invitation only)
Saturday, March 12, 2022
Political Economy of Economic Development
Session Chair:
Daniel Bennett
Session Organizer:
Daniel Bennett
Aid, Reform, and Interest Groups
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Presenter: Bonnie Wilson
Co-Author(s): Jac C. Heckelman
Discussant: Gary Wagner
Regional Economic Growth in the Russian Federation: Spatial Analysis with Economic Freedom
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Presenter: Dennis Coates
Co-Author(s): Olga Demidova
Discussant: Bonnie Wilson
The impact of Chinese Aid on Democratic Values in Latin America
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Presenter: Andreas Freytag
Co-Author(s): Miriam Kautz
Discussant: Stefan Kirkegaard Sløk-Madsen
From liberal to social institutional logics – How a failed state organization saved itself
Presenter: Stefan Kirkegaard Sløk-Madsen
Discussant: Andreas Freytag
Room: Piedmont
Empirical and Computational Studies of Collective Choice
Session Chair:
Shane Sanders
Session Organizer:
Shane Sanders
Combatting Gerrymandering with Social Choice: the Design of Multi-member Districts
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Presenter: Nikhil Garg
Co-Author(s): Wes Gurnee, David Rothschild, David Shmoys
Discussant: Robi Ragan
Borda Count and Majority Rule in a Forward Agenda
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Presenter: Keith Dougherty
Co-Author(s): Robi Ragan
Discussant: Shane Sanders
Information, Conflict of Interest, and Vote Quality: A Natural Experiment
Presenter: Shane Sanders
Co-Author(s): Ehrlich, Justin; Potter, Joel
Discussant: Keith Dougherty
Room: Rail Yard A
Pandemics Liberty and Covid 19 Historical and Legal Implications
Session Chair:
Trey Carson
Session Organizer:
Ryan Yonk
Public Health For Sale! Privately Improving Welfare and Public Health
Presenter: Trey Carson
Discussant: Phil Magness
Pandemic Central Planning
Presenter: Phil Magness
Discussant: James Harrigan
The Presidency and Pandemics
Presenter: James Harrigan
Co-Author(s): Johanne Harrigan
Discussant: Ryan Yonk
Room: Summit B
Political Development, Violence, and Crime
Session Chair:
Jordan Gans-Morse
Session Organizer:
David Skarbek
Corruption and Property Rights in Russia: Evidence from the Commercial Court System
Presenter: Jordan Gans-Morse
Co-Author(s): David Szakonyi
Discussant: David Skarbek
The Legacies of Wartime Institutions after Rebel Victory
Presenter: Shelley Liu
Discussant: David Skarbek
Who is to Blame? Youth Crime and Attribution of Responsibility in Urban Mexico
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Presenter: Omar García Ponce
Co-Author(s): Isabel Laterzo
Discussant: David Skarbek
From Cocaine to Avocados: Criminal Market Expansion and Violence
Presenter: Chelsea Estancona
Co-Author(s): Lucia Tiscornia
Discussant: David Skarbek
Room: Rail Yard B
Law and International Affairs
Session Chair:
Justin Callais
Session Organizer:
Kevin Grier
Repression and International Trade: An Analysis of Chinese Trade with Islamic Countries
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Presenter: Greg Caskey
Co-Author(s): Justin Callais; Linan Peng
Discussant: Gor Mkrtchian
The Effects of Enduring Constitutions on Incomes
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Presenter: Justin Callais
Discussant: Greg Caskey
Catastrophe – State Capacity, Violence and Natural Disasters
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Presenter: Silvio Livio Simonetti Neto
Discussant: Justin Callais
Court Packing
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Presenter: Gor Mkrtchian
Co-Author(s): Justin Callais
Discussant: Silvio Livio Simonetti Neto
Room: Rail Yard C
Monetary Politics
Session Chair:
Kevin Grier
Session Organizer:
Kevin Grier
Political Biases at the Federal Reserve
Presenter: Bryan Cutsinger
Co-Author(s): William Luther
Discussant: Kevin Grier
Democracy, Dictatorship, and the Monetary Commons
Presenter: Louis Rouanet
Co-Author(s): Bryan Cutsinger
Discussant: Kevin Grier
Political Instability and the Demand for Money During Hyperinflation
Presenter: Joshua Ingber
Co-Author(s): Louis Rouanet
Discussant: Kevin Grier
A Public Choice Account of Prompt Corrective Action
Presenter: Thomas Hogan
Co-Author(s): Bryan Cutsinger
Discussant: Kevin Grier
Room: North Coast A
Roundtable on Anthony Downs, 1930-2021
Session Chair:
Michael Munger
Session Organizer:
Michael Munger
Anthony Downs and the Virginia School
Presenter: William Shughart
The Downsian Model of Ideology
Presenter: Michael Munger
Downs and the Origins of the Spatial Model
Presenter: Bernard Grofman
Anthony Downs and Social Choice
Presenter: Steven Brams
Room: North Coast B
Income Inequality
Session Chair:
Francisco Alberto Castellanos Sosa
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Spatial income inequality in the United States
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Presenter: Francisco Alberto Castellanos Sosa
Discussant: Steven Brownell
Economic Freedom and Interstate Migration in the US
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Presenter: Steven Brownell
Discussant: Wilson Law
Interpreting intergenerational mobility and inequality
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Presenter: Wilson Law
Discussant: Francisco Alberto Castellanos Sosa
Room: Summit A
Public Opinion, Protests and Violence
Session Chair:
Niclas Berggren
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Does Legal Freedom Satisfy?
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Presenter: Niclas Berggren
Co-Author(s): Christian Bjørnskov
Discussant: Georgios Melios
Weather to Protest: The Effect of Black Lives Matter Protests on the 2020 Presidential Election
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Presenter: Georgios Melios
Co-Author(s): Bouke Klein Teeselink
Discussant: Soeren Schwuchow
Transnational Diffusion of Identity Politics
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Presenter: Soeren Schwuchow
Discussant: Niclas Berggren
Room: Railhead
Top-Down Governance
Session Chair:
Daniel Sutter
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The End of Anonymity and the Future of Liberty
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Presenter: Daniel Sutter
Discussant: William Peirce
Spontaneous order: the neglected insights of Henry George
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Presenter: William Peirce
Discussant: Lookman Issa
Explaining Corruption in Environmental Impact Assessment Process: From a Public Choice Analysis Perspective
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Presenter: Lookman Issa
Discussant: Daniel Sutter
Platforms Pose a Problem for Regulating Industry Structure
Session Chair:
Michael Munger
Session Organizer:
Michael Munger
Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission
Presenter: Thomas Hazlett
Discussant: Lynne Kiesling
The Political Economy of Digital Energy Platforms
Presenter: Lynne Kiesling
Discussant: Michael Munger
A Good Industrial Policy is Impossible
Presenter: Michael Munger
Discussant: Thomas Hazlett
Room: Summit A
Institutional Paradoxes, Failure, and Mistakes 3 – Honoring Bernard Grofman
Session Chair:
Jac Heckelman
Session Organizer:
Marek Kaminski
State Pivotality and Battleground States in the U.S. Electoral College
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Presenter: Zora Mihaley
Co-Author(s): Bernard Grofman
Discussant: Keith Dougherty
The Congressional Apportionment Game
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Presenter: Keith Dougherty
Discussant: Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard
Redistricting: Squaring the Circle of Seemingly Incompatible Legal Standards
Presenter: Bernard Grofman
Seats, governments and butterfly effects: The relative arbitrariness of social choices in a parliamentary democracy
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Presenter: Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard
Discussant: Zora Mihaley
Room: Rail Yard A
Pandemics Liberty and Public Choice
Session Chair:
Ravi Roy
Session Organizer:
Ryan Yonk
Monocentric Policy? Lessons from Covid 19 in Different
Presenter: Ryan Yonk
Co-Author(s): Amelia Janaskie
Discussant: Ravi Roy
Shared Mental Models and Covid 19 Policy
Presenter: Ravi Roy
Discussant: Peter Earle
Economic and Social Impacts of Covid-19 Response
Presenter: Peter Earle
Discussant: Nathan Goodman
After the Pandemic: The Long-Run Impact of Pandemics on Liberty
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Presenter: Nathan Goodman
Discussant: Ryan Yonk
Room: Rail Yard B
Faith, Religion, and Buchanan
Session Chair:
Art Carden
Session Organizer:
Bonnie Wilson
Discussion, Dictation, and Decisions Among Natural Equals
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Presenter: Art Carden
Co-Author(s): Jaime Carini and Nathanael Snow
Discussant: Anthony Gill
Three to Get Married? Religious Marriage as a Cooperative Game
Presenter: Clara Piano
Discussant: Jeremy Jackson
Limits on Methodological Individualism
Presenter: Catherine Pakaluk
Co-Author(s): Michael Pakaluk
Discussant: Ennio Piano
What Should Economists and Theologians Do?: James Buchanan’s Political Economy and Christian Anthropology
Presenter: Anne Bradley
Discussant: Art Carden
Room: Rail Yard C
Applied Political Economy
Session Chair:
Bryan Cutsinger
Session Organizer:
Kevin Grier
A Theory of Social Praise
Presenter: Greg Caskey
Discussant: Wilson Whitener
Exploring Supply-Chain Network Formation: A Property Systems Approach
Presenter: Zachary Kessler
Discussant: Chandler Reilly
The Political Economy of Rising Defense Costs in the United States
Presenter: Chandler Reilly
Discussant: Zachary Kessler
Term Limits and Fiscal Policy in the United States
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Presenter: Wilson Whitener
Co-Author(s): Bryan Cutsinger
Discussant: Greg Caskey
Room: North Coast A
Determinants and Consequences of Freedom
Session Chair:
Ingemar Bengtsson
Session Organizer:
Christian Bjørnskov
The Economic Impact of a Major Corruption Scandal in China: The Case of Heilongjiang
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Presenter: Yang Zhou
Co-Author(s): Alberto Batinti, Jaime Bologna Pavlik
Discussant: Nabamita Dutta
Values, Beliefs and Opinions: How much do they matter for Economic Freedom
Presenter: Nabamita Dutta
Discussant: Ingemar Bengtsson
A Market for Citizenships – should Citizenship be Commodified?
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Presenter: Ingemar Bengtsson
Discussant: Ricardo R. Noé
The Political Economy of Caudillismo: Property Rights, Autocratic Revenue Acquisition, and State Modernization
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Presenter: Ricardo R. Noé
Discussant: Yang Zhou
Room: North Coast B
Public Choice and Externalities: The Governance of Complex Social Dilemmas
Session Chair:
Veeshan Rayamajhee
Session Organizer:
Pablo Paniagua
Coase, Buchanan, and the Ostroms on Externalities
Presenter: Veeshan Rayamajhee
Co-Author(s): Pablo Paniagua
Discussant: Vaughn Baltzly
Getting Clear on the Relation Between Public Goods and Externalities
Presenter: Vaughn Baltzly
Discussant: Jan Vogler
Managing Social and Economic Externalities: How Industrialization Led to the Rise of the Bureaucratic State
Presenter: Jan Vogler
Discussant: Glenn Furton
Pollution in Economics
Presenter: Glenn Furton
Co-Author(s): Larry Eubanks
Discussant: Veeshan Rayamajhee
Room: Railhead
Law and Economics
Session Chair:
Brian Meehan
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Marijuana Decriminalization and Traffic Stops
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Presenter: Brian Meehan
Co-Author(s): Jake Weitkamp
Discussant: Jieon Shim
Are Lawyers Effective State Legislators? Evidence from North Carolina
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Presenter: Jieon Shim
Discussant: Slade Mendenhall
A Theory of Special Legislation and its Decline
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Presenter: Slade Mendenhall
Co-Author(s): Justin Callais
Discussant: Brian Meehan
Room: Piedmont
The Welfare State
Session Chair:
Gustavo de Souza
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
On the Political and Economic Determinants of Redistribution: Inequality, Ideology, or Religion?
Presenter: Gustavo de Souza
Discussant: Sarah Hakeem
Globalization, Democracy and Social Spending in Pakistan: A Time-Series Analysis, 1972-2018
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Presenter: Sarah Hakeem
Co-Author(s): Saghir Pervaiz Ghauri; Anum Hayat
Discussant: Andreas Bergh
Fairness, flexibility and the far right: Understanding the relationship between populism, social spending and labor markets
Presenter: Andreas Bergh
Co-Author(s): Anders Kärnä
Discussant: Luke Petach
A Tullock Index for Assessing the Efficiency of Redistribution
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Presenter: Luke Petach
Discussant: Gustavo de Souza
Room: Summit B
Teaching Public Choice
Session Chair:
Eric Alston
Session Organizer:
Adam Martin
Teaching Public Choice to Business School Freshmen
Presenter: Eric Alston
Teaching Public Choice in Public Finance
Presenter: Alicia Plemmons
Teaching Public Choice in Public Administration
Presenter: Ryan Yonk
Teaching Public Choice in Political Science
Presenter: Kevin Grier
Awards Luncheon and Business Meeting
Session Chair:
William Shughart
Session Organizer:
Edward Lopez
Society Announcements
Presenter: Edward Lopez
Presentation of Duncan Black Prize and Gordon Tullock Prize
Presenter: Peter Leeson
Presentation of the Elinor and Vincent Ostrom Prize for Best Combined Paper and Presentation by a Graduate Student
Presenter: Lynne Kiesling
Presidential Address: On the Virginia School of Antitrust
Presenter: William Shughart
Public Goods
Session Chair:
Paul Pecorino
Session Organizer:
Paul Pecorino
An Examination of the Effect of Inequality on Lotteries for Funding Public Goods
Presenter: Christopher Oconnor
Co-Author(s): Li Zhang
Discussant: Paul Pecorino
Winners’ Efforts in Multi-Battle Team Contests
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Presenter: Stefano Barbieri
Co-Author(s): Marco Serena
Discussant: Christopher Oconnor
Public Good Provision with Redistributive Taxation
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Presenter: Paul Pecorino
Discussant: Stefano Barbieri
Room: Summit B
Institutional Paradoxes, Failure, and Mistakes 2 – Honoring Nicholas Miller
Session Chair:
Marek Kaminski
Session Organizer:
Bonnie Wilson
Incumbent Vulnerability and Simpson’s Paradox in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1952-2018
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Presenter: Haotian Chen
Co-Author(s): Bernard Grofman, John Cuffe Haotian Chen
Discussant: Steven Linder
By-Mail Voting and the Primacy Effect
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Presenter: Steven Linder
Discussant: Haotian Chen
Profile Dimensions for Positional System Immunity to the Borda Paradox
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Presenter: Jac Heckelman
Discussant: Keith Dougherty
Is the Electoral College Biased Against Democrats?
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Presenter: Nicholas Miller
Room: Summit C
Public Policy & Entrepreneurship
Session Chair:
Sven-Olov Daunfeldt
Session Organizer:
Daniel Bennett
Do Targeted R&D Grants Towards Potential High-Growth Firms Increase Employment and Demand for High Human Capital Workers?
Presenter: Sven-Olov Daunfeldt
Co-Author(s): Daniel Halvarsson, Patrik Gustavsson Tingvall, Alexander McKelvie
Discussant: Michael Araki
Greasing the Wheels of Growth: Reduced Enforceability of Noncompete Agreements as an External Enabler of High-Growth Entrepreneurship
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Presenter: Michael Araki
Co-Author(s): Daniel Bennett, Gary Wagner
Discussant: Sven-Olov Daunfeldt
Online Reviews, Legitimacy, and (In)Formal Entrepreneurship
Presenter: Fabian Diaz
Discussant: Daniel Bennett
Room: Rail Yard A
The Political Economy of Crime and Punishment
Session Chair:
Antonella Bandiera
Session Organizer:
David Skarbek
Machine Gun Politics: Why Politicians Cooperate with Criminal Groups
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Presenter: Jessie Bullock
Discussant: David Skarbek
Uprooting the Gang: Bargaining, Turf Warfare and Truce among Organized Criminal Groups
Presenter: Elena Barham
Co-Author(s): Sarah Daly
Discussant: David Skarbek
The Effect of Rents on Behavior: Evidence from Illegal Gold Mining in Peru
Presenter: Antonella Bandiera
Discussant: David Skarbek
Room: Rail Yard B
Economic Development and Computational Economics
Session Chair:
Justin Callais
Session Organizer:
Kevin Grier
A New Economic Cybernetics: Computational Frameworks for Analyzing Institutions Applied to Behavioral Macroeconomic Models
Presenter: Zachary Kessler
Discussant: Israt Jahan
The Political Economy of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Presenter: Greg Caskey
Discussant: Nicholas Reinarts
Can We Persist, Nevertheless? An Examination of Whether Social Trust Can Mitigate the Deleterious Effect of Political Instability on Economic Prosperity
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Presenter: Nicholas Reinarts
Discussant: Zachary Kessler
Can constitutional changes and economic freedom predict future economic performance? A machine learning approach
Presenter: Israt Jahan
Discussant: Greg Caskey
Room: Rail Yard C
Entangled Political Economy
Session Chair:
Abigail Devereaux
Session Organizer:
Abigail Devereaux
The limits of control in the face of accelerating growth: an entangled political economy perspective
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Presenter: Abigail Devereaux
Discussant: Jonathan Plante
Norms, Institutions and Digital Veils of Ignorance Do Network Protocols Even Need Trust?
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Presenter: Eric Alston
Discussant: Michelle Vachris
Unleashing the Fiscal Commons: How Public Debt Creates a Transitional Gains Trap
Presenter: Jonathan Plante
Discussant: Abigail Devereaux
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Scotch Whisky Industry
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Presenter: Michelle Vachris
Discussant: Eric Alston
Room: North Coast A
Policy Entrepreneurship & Uncertainty
Session Chair:
Nabamita Dutta
Session Organizer:
Fernando D’Andrea
Opportunity And Necessity Entrepreneurship: Do Linguistic Structures Matter?
Presenter: Nabamita Dutta
Co-Author(s): Thor Lienhard, Russell Sobel
Entrepreneurship & Policy-Derived Uncertainty
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Presenter: Fernando D’Andrea
Socio-economic Status, Occupational Licensing and Firm Growth
Presenter: Shishir Shakya
Beyond Poverty and Prosperity: Chinese Institutional Uncertainty
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Presenter: Qifan Chen
Co-Author(s): Mark Packard, Per Bylund
Room: North Coast B
Bureaucracies and Legislatures
Session Chair:
Olga Shanks
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Monitoring of Bureaucracy as a Public Good
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Presenter: Olga Shanks
Co-Author(s): Stratmann, Thomas
Discussant: Masami Imai
Local Economic Impacts of Legislative Malapportionment
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Presenter: Masami Imai
Discussant: Christoph Vanberg
Legislative bargaining with private information
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Presenter: Christoph Vanberg
Co-Author(s): David Piazolo
Discussant: Olga Shanks
Public Choice Conundrums, Illusions, & Disappearing Acts
Session Chair:
Anthony Gill
Session Organizer:
Anthony Gill
The Libertarian Club Conundrum
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Presenter: Anthony Gill
Discussant: Nathan Goodman
The grand (fiscal) illusion: property tax relief and educational spending in North Dakota
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Presenter: Jeremy Jackson
Co-Author(s): Kole Nichols
Discussant: Anthony Gill
Whither the Will of the People?
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Presenter: Cecil Bohanon
Discussant: Jeremy Jackson
Social Movements and the Market Process
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Presenter: Nathan Goodman
Discussant: Cecil Bohanon
Room: Summit A
Institutional Paradoxes, Failure, and Mistakes 1 – Honoring Steven Brams
Session Chair:
Marek Kaminski
Session Organizer:
Bonnie Wilson
Primacy effects in open-list proportional representation systems
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Presenter: Marek Kaminski
Co-Author(s): Jaroslaw Flis
Discussant: Ugurcan Evci
Choosing among the variety of proposed voting reforms
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Presenter: Nicolaus Tideman
Discussant: Marek Kaminski
Shot in the Foot: Unintended Political Consequences of Electoral Engineering in the Turkish Parliamentary Elections in 2018
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Presenter: Ugurcan Evci
Co-Author(s): Marek Kaminski
Discussant: Nicolaus Tideman
Reflection on Political Paradoxes
Presenter: Steven Brams
Room: Summit B
Roundtable: Reflections on Shared Mental Models: Symposium in Honor of Douglass C. North
Session Chair:
Arthur Denzau
Session Organizer:
Ravi Roy
Mental Models and Public Policy in the Pandemic Era
Presenter: Ryan Yonk
Discussant: Ravi Roy
Institutional Change and the Importance of Understanding Shared Mental Models
Presenter: William Shughart
Co-Author(s): Diana Thomas
Discussant: Ryan Yonk
Shared Belief Systems, The Basic Space and the Constrained Nature of Rationality in Judging Institutions
Presenter: Michael Munger
Discussant: Ravi Roy
Room: Rail Yard A
Political Economy of State Economic Development
Session Chair:
Donghyuk Kim
Session Organizer:
Peter Calcagno
Economic Spillovers and Political Payoffs in Government Competition for Firms: Evidence from the Kansas City Border War
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Presenter: Donghyuk Kim
Discussant: Peter Calcagno
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Economic Development Incentives: The Case of District of Columbia
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Presenter: Abraham Song
Discussant: Carlianne Patrick
The Distributional Effects of Targeted Economic Development Incentives
Presenter: Carlianne Patrick
Co-Author(s): Heather Stephens
Discussant: Russell Sobel
The Political Economy of State Economic Development Incentives: A Case of Rent Extraction
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Presenter: Russell Sobel
Co-Author(s): Calcagno, Peter; Wagner, Gary
Discussant: Donghyuk Kim
Room: Rail Yard B
Constitutions, Organizations, and Governance
Session Chair:
Joshua Martin
Session Organizer:
Kevin Grier
Teachers’ Union Strength and School Reopening Decisions: Evidence from Connecticut during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Presenter: Joshua Martin
Co-Author(s): Zachary Porreca
Discussant: Israt Jahan
Do Constitutions Matter? A Causal Relationship between Constitutional Rights and Growth
Presenter: Israt Jahan
Discussant: Henry Moncrieff
Political Survival and Military Spending
Presenter: Henry Moncrieff
Discussant: Towhid Mahmood
Effects of Reference to Free Market & Market Competition in Constitution on Economic Freedom: A Causal Investigation
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Presenter: Towhid Mahmood
Discussant: Joshua Martin
Room: Rail Yard C
A Roundtable on Public Choice and Women
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
Roberta Herzberg
Public Choice of Pandemics: Impacts on Women
Presenter: Roberta Herzberg
Discussant: Jeanne Hoffman
Work-Life Imbalance Heightened by Covid. The influence of Female Economists: Evidence from Nobel Laureates’ Work
Presenter: Jeanne Hoffman
Discussant: Darwyyn Deyo
Remember the Ladies: Women Cited in the Nobel Prize Lectures in Economics From 1969 to 2008.
Presenter: Darwyyn Deyo
Discussant: Roberta Herzberg
Room: North Coast A
Rent Seeking
Session Chair:
Jonathan Plante
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Public Debt and Budgetary Legislation as a Rent Creation and Extraction Process
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Presenter: Jonathan Plante
Discussant: Vitor Melo
Assessing the Relationship Between Rent-Seeking and Economic Growth: New Empirical Advances
Presenter: Vitor Melo
Discussant: Stephen Miller
The Effects of Washington’s Minimum Wage Increases: A Synthetic Control Approach
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Presenter: Stephen Miller
Co-Author(s): Alvernaz, Michael
Discussant: Daniel Nientiedt
Hayek and Schmitt on the “Depoliticization” of the Economy
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Presenter: Daniel Nientiedt
Discussant: Jonathan Plante
Room: North Coast B
Historical Political Economy
Session Chair:
Ennio Piano
Session Organizer:
Ennio Piano
The Best-Laid Plans: Subsidized Immigration in mid-19th Century French Algeria
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Presenter: Theresa Finley
Discussant: Henry Thompson
Can Geography Explain Quebec’s Historical Poverty?
Presenter: Louis Rouanet
Co-Author(s): Vincent Geloso
Discussant: Joshua Hendrickson
Taxation and National Defense, Revisited
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Presenter: Joshua Hendrickson
Discussant: Louis Rouanet
Cosa Nostra Courts
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Presenter: Henry Thompson
Discussant: Theresa Finley
Room: Railhead
Political Capitalism
Session Chair:
Miklos Rosta
Session Organizer:
Mehrdad Vahabi
Following Their Leaders: Political Preferences and Public Policy
Presenter: Randall Holcombe
Discussant: Judit Kalman
Unemployment Policy as Predation – Public Works Program in Hungary
Presenter: Judit Kalman
Discussant: Bálint Madlovics
Relational economics: from normatively to discretionally closed markets
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Presenter: Bálint Madlovics
Discussant: Miklos Rosta
Predatory capitalism. Understanding property rights in hybrid regimes
Presenter: Miklos Rosta
Discussant: Randall Holcombe