2015 Conference Program Details
- Thursday, March 12
- 3:00pm – 7:00pm *
- 5:00pm – 6:30pm
- 6:30pm – 11:59pm
- Friday, March 13
- 7:00am – 8:30am
- 7:00am – 5:00pm *
- 8:00am – 9:30am *
- 9:30am – 10:00am
- 10:00am – 11:20am
- 11:20am – 1:30pm *
- 1:00pm – 2:30pm *
- 2:30pm – 2:40pm
- 2:40pm – 4:10pm *
- 4:10pm – 4:20pm
- 4:20pm – 5:50pm *
- 6:00pm – 11:59pm
- Saturday, March 14
- 7:00am – 8:30am
- 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 – 2:40pm
- 2:40pm – 4:10pm *
- 4:10pm – 4:20pm
- 4:20pm – 5:30pm
- 5:30pm – 7:00pm
- 7:00pm – 11:59pm
- Sunday, March 15
- 7:30am – 8:30am
- 8:30am – 10:00am *
- 10:00am – 10:30am
- 10:30am – 12:00pm *
Friday, March 13, 2015
Institutions & Well-Being I
Session Chair:
Daniel Bennett
Session Organizer:
Boris Nikolaev
Tolerance in the United States: How freer markets transform racial, religious, and sexual attitudes
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Presenter: Niclas Berggren
Co-Author(s): Therese Nilsson
Discussant: Joshua Hall
Economic Freedom, Physical Activity, and Health Disparities
Presenter: Joshua Hall
Co-Author(s): Humphreys Brad,Ruseki Jane
Discussant: Boris Nikolaev
Give Me Liberty and Give Me Control: Freedom and the Locus of Control
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Presenter: Boris Nikolaev
Co-Author(s): Bennett Daniel
Discussant: Milena Nikolova
Institutions and the Unhappiness Puzzle: Evidence from Transition Economies
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Presenter: Milena Nikolova
Discussant: Niclas Berggren
Room: Rio Grande East
Markets and Institutions
Session Chair:
Kathleen Sheehan
Aid and the Role of External Influence in Polycentric Institutions
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Presenter: Liya Palagashvili
Discussant: Monika Cule
Inter vivos transfers of business assets in family firms
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Presenter: Marina Riem
Co-Author(s): Niklas Potrafke, Christoph Schinke
The effect of political institutions on Internet access
Presenter: Kathleen Sheehan
Discussant: Marina Riem
Room: Garden Terrace #1
Experiments
Session Chair:
Joy Buchanan
Expressive voting and ideology in a laboratory democracy
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Presenter: Rasmus Wiese
Co-Author(s): Richard Jong-A-Pin
Discussant: Duk Gyoo Kim
Labor Supply Response to Price Level Shocks: Evidence from a Gift Exchange Experiment
Presenter: Joy Buchanan
Co-Author(s): Daniel Houser
Discussant: Daniela Goya-Tocchetto
The Second-Tier Curse: Theory and Experimental Evidence
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Presenter: Duk Gyoo Kim
Discussant: Rasmus Wiese
Room: Garden Terrace #2
Employment and Retirement
Session Chair:
William B. Hankins
What drives annuitization rates? Retirement behavior in Switzerland during and after the crisis
Presenter: Alma Ramsden
Co-Author(s): Monika Bütler
Discussant: William B. Hankins
The political economy of public investment when population is aging: a panel cointegration analysis
Presenter: Philipp Jaeger
Co-Author(s): Torsten Schmidt
Discussant: Niklas Elert
The Politics of Employment: How Partisanship Influences the Distribution of Employment and Training Administration Grants
Presenter: William B. Hankins
Discussant: Alma Ramsden
Room: Blanco
Agency and Hierarchy
Session Chair:
Renato Oliveira
Performance Management in Principal-Agent Relations: Gaming and Monitoring the System
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Presenter: Shlomo Mizrahi
Co-Author(s): Yizhaq Minchuk
Discussant: Trey Carson
Can Politicians Police Themselves? Natural Experimental Evidence from Brazil’s Audit Courts
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Presenter: Renato Oliveira
Co-Author(s): Júlio Canello (IESP) and F. Daniel Hidalgo (MIT)
Discussant: Luona Lin
The Marine Hospital Service, 1798-1902: a Political Economy Perspective
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Presenter: Trey Carson
Discussant: Shlomo Mizrahi
Room: Frio
Gender and Discrimination: a Public Choice Approach
Session Chair:
Moshe Yanovskiy
Gender, migration, and labor share
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Presenter: Maria Tackett
Discussant: Moshe Yanovskiy
Are the Discrimination fighters selective? Public Choice approach to incentives analysis
Presenter: Moshe Yanovskiy
Co-Author(s): Ginker Timofey, Zhavoronkov Sergei
Discussant: Yogesh Uppal
Room: Mesquite
Charity and Public Choice
Session Chair:
Alexander Funcke
Information, Competition and the Quality of Charity
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Presenter: Silvana Krasteva
Co-Author(s): Huseyin Yildirim
Discussant: Alexander Funcke
Strategic Delegation in Public Investment Competition
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Presenter: Taiki Susa
Discussant: Sevgi Ineci
And she’s building a stairway to collective action: On stifling and instigating revolutions
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Presenter: Alexander Funcke
Co-Author(s): Ulrik Franke
Discussant: Silvana Krasteva
Good Governance and Economic Efficiency: A Public Choice Look on Poverty Reduction with Microfinance
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Presenter: Sevgi Ineci
Discussant: Taiki Susa
Room: Nueces
Interests, Rent Seeking and Models of Influence
Session Chair:
Bjoern Kauder
Lobbying, family concerns and the lack of political support for estate taxation
Presenter: Philippe De Donder
Co-Author(s): Pierre Pestieau
Discussant: Lawrence Ikem Fejokwu
“The Optimal Number of States for the Viable Fiscal Future of Fiscally Failing, Fiscally Flawed Nations. A Nigerian Case Study.”
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Presenter: Lawrence Ikem Fejokwu
Discussant: Bjoern Kauder
Do External Experts Prevent Political Biases in Revenue Forecasts? Evidence from Germany
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Presenter: Bjoern Kauder
Co-Author(s): Thiess Buettner
Discussant: Bonnie Wilson
Fractionalization, Rent Seeking, and Economic Freedom
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Presenter: Bonnie Wilson
Co-Author(s): Jac C Heckelman
Discussant: Philippe De Donder
Plenary Session 1: Todd Sandler, University of Texas at Dallas and Past Recipient of Duncan Black Prize: “Collective Action: Fifty Years Later”
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
Keith Dougherty
Collective Action: Fifty Years Later
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Presenter: Todd Sandler
Discussant: Michael Munger
Public Choice Behavioral Economics – Implications for Policy
Session Organizer:
Susan Dudley
Integrating public choice and behavioral economics
Presenter: Susan Dudley
Co-Author(s): Brian Mannix, Blake Taylor
Are “Private Benefits” from Regulation Legitimate?
Presenter: Brian Mannix
Co-Author(s): Susan Dudley
The Formation of Trust Networks in Supply Chains with Intermediaries: A Virtual World Experiment
Presenter: Kevin McCabe
Behavioral Political Economy: A Survey
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Presenter: Christian Schubert
Co-Author(s): Jan Schnellenbach
Discussant: Kevin McCabe
Room: Nueces
Contributions to Pre-Modern Economic History
Session Chair:
Andrew Young
Session Organizer:
Andrew Young
From Caesar to Tacitus: Changes in Early Germanic Governance circa 50 BC to 50 AD
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Presenter: Andrew Young
Discussant: Bryan McCannon
Prison Growth and Political Interests Across Legal Origins
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Presenter: Daniel D’Amico
Co-Author(s): Claudia Williamson
Discussant: Geoffrey Lea
Who Pays Taxes? Liturgies and the Antidosis Procedure
Presenter: Bryan McCannon
Co-Author(s): Williamson Claudia
Discussant: Daniel D’Amico
Interest Groups and the Athenian Fleet
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Presenter: Geoffrey Lea
Discussant: Andrew Young
Room: Rio Grande West
Institutions & Well-Being II
Session Chair:
Boris Nikolaev
Session Organizer:
Daniel Bennett
Institutional Convergence
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Presenter: Christopher Boudreaux
Co-Author(s): Holcombe Randall
Discussant: Andrew Young
Economic Freedom and the Education of Women: An Empirical Analysis
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Presenter: Rosemarie Fike
Discussant: Martin Rode
Free to choose? Economic freedom, relative income, and life control perceptions
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Presenter: Martin Rode
Co-Author(s): Hans Pitlik
Discussant: Rosemarie Fike
Want Freedom, Will Travel: Emigrant Self Selection according to Institutional Quality
Presenter: Andrew Young
Co-Author(s): Nejad Maryam Naghsh
Discussant: Randall Holcombe
Room: Rio Grande East
The Political Economy of Law and Legislation
Session Chair:
Joshua Hall
Session Organizer:
Joshua Hall
The Value of Friends in High Places: The Political Economy of the Export-Import Bank
Presenter: Frank Stephenson
Co-Author(s): Peter McCort
Discussant: Christopher Yencha
Good Cop, Bad Cop, What You Gonna Do?
Presenter: Robert Lawson
Co-Author(s): Keri Lawson
Discussant: Joshua Hall
The Political Economy of Subsidized Commercial Air Service
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Presenter: Christopher Yencha
Co-Author(s): Joshua Hall, Amanda Ross
Discussant: Frank Stephenson
Rule of law in a Public Choice Perspective
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Presenter: Filip Palda
Discussant: Robert Lawson
Room: Blanco
Rule of Law Applications
Session Chair:
Benjamin Ogden
Economic Transition, Firm Size, and Legal Reform in China, Russia, and Kazakhstan
Presenter: Bradley Murg
Discussant: Benjamin Chen
Explaining Comparative Administrative Law: The Standing of Positive Political Theory
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Presenter: Benjamin Chen
Co-Author(s): Zhiyu Li
Discussant: Benjamin Ogden
When Settlements Increase Competition: The Dynamics of Reverse Payment Settlements and Market Entry
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Presenter: Benjamin Ogden
Co-Author(s): Keith Hylton
Discussant: daniele bertolini
Taking the Costs of Consent Seriously. Process Efficiency Analysis and the Constitutional Foundations of Law and Economics
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Presenter: daniele bertolini
Discussant: Bradley Murg
Room: Garden Terrace #1
Property Rights
Session Chair:
Alexander Salter
Is This North Carolina or Zimbabwe? How the State’s “Designated Highway Corridors” Destroy Property Rights, Wealth and County Revenue in the State.
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Presenter: Craig Richardson
Discussant: Alexander Salter
The Economic Characteristics of First Possession Rights to a Heterogeneous Resource: Prior Appropriation Rights to Water
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Presenter: Bryan Leonard
Co-Author(s): Gary D. Libecap
Discussant: Michael Giberson
Sovereignty as Exchange of Political Property Rights
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Presenter: Alexander Salter
Discussant: Craig Richardson
Room: Frio
Fiscal and Monetary Institutions
Session Chair:
Soomi Lee
On the Design of Public Institutions: Evidence from Financial Supervision
Presenter: Volker Nitsch
Discussant: Soomi Lee
Wither Gold
Presenter: James Caton
Discussant: Florian Neumeier
Do Businessmen make Good Governors?
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Presenter: Florian Neumeier
Federal Tax Shocks and Fiscal Capacity: The Case of Natural Resources
Presenter: Yaniv Reingewertz
Discussant: Volker Nitsch
Room: Mesquite
Electoral Models
Session Chair:
D. Marc Kilgour
Approval Balloting in Elections with a Variable Number of Winners
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Presenter: D. Marc Kilgour
Discussant: Markus Reischmann
Plurality Voting Versus Proportional Representation in the Citizen‐Candidate Model
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Presenter: Aaron Kamm
Discussant: Junichiro Wada
Creative accounting and electoral motives: Evidence from OECD countries
Presenter: Markus Reischmann
Discussant: D. Marc Kilgour
Studying unequal representation using alpha-divergence
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Presenter: Junichiro Wada
Co-Author(s): Yuta Kamahara
Discussant: Aaron Kamm
Room: Rio Grande Center
The Inaugural Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Prize: Finalists’ Presentations
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
Mario Villarreal
Escape from Europe: A Calculus of Consent Model of the Origins of Democracy in North America
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Presenter: Vlad Tarko
Co-Author(s): Kyle O’Donnell
Discussant: Georg Vanberg
The Individual-Specific Incidence of Mandated Benefits: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act
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Presenter: Conor Lennon
Discussant: Bonnie Wilson
Does Central Bank Independence Improve Monetary Policymaking?
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Presenter: Caitlin Ainsley
Discussant: Michael Munger
Maryland Collective Choice
Session Chair:
Keith Dougherty
Session Organizer:
Keith Dougherty
The Central Bank of Cincinnati? A Public Choice Analysis of the Selection of Federal Reserve Bank Cities
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Presenter: Jac Heckelman
Co-Author(s): John Wood
Discussant: Keith Dougherty
Fragmentation and Collective Action: Two Dilemmas of Early Eastern-European Transition.
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Presenter: Marek Kaminski
Discussant: Nicholas Miller
Educate or Regulate
Presenter: Bilin Neyapti
Discussant: Keith Dougherty
A note on behavioral game theory: theoretical predictions, experimental outcomes and the meaning of the discrepancy between them.
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Presenter: Piotr Swistak
Discussant: Nicholas Miller
Room: Rio Grande Center
Tullock’s Contributions I: Breadth of Public Choice – Sponsored by Liberty Fund
Session Chair:
Roger Congleton
Session Organizer:
Roger Congleton
Tullock and the Theory of the Rent Seeking Society
Presenter: Arye Hillman
Discussant: Roger Congleton
Tullock’s Theory of Dictatorship and Revolution
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Presenter: Thomas Apolte
Discussant: Arye Hillman
Remembering Gordon Tullock’s Contribution to Efficient Public Choice
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Presenter: Nicolaus Tideman
Discussant: Thomas Apolte
Gordon Tullock’s Implicit Analytical History of Government
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Presenter: Roger Congleton
Discussant: Nicolaus Tideman
Room: Rio Grande East
Liberty and Political Economy
Session Chair:
Ken Sagynbekov
Mapping the Road to Freedom – The Correlates and Roots of the Rule of Law
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Presenter: Stefan Voigt
Co-Author(s): Jerg Gutmann
Discussant: Ken Sagynbekov
Less Liberty, More Deaths?
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Presenter: Ken Sagynbekov
Discussant: Nicolas Maloberti
Nudges for Voters
Presenter: Nicolas Maloberti
Discussant: Darwyyn Deyo
The Impact of Double Discrimination: The Minimum Wage, Women of Color, and Crime Using a Matching Test
Presenter: Darwyyn Deyo
Discussant: Stefan Voigt
Room: Nueces
Legislative Decisionmaking
Session Chair:
Mark Crain
Legislative bargaining with heterogeneous disagreement value: theory and experiments
Presenter: Christoph Vanberg
Co-Author(s): Luis Miller, Maria Montero
Kill Bill: That’s What Committees Do
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Presenter: Mark Crain
Discussant: Timothy Grinsell
Sunset Laws: Active Bargaining between the Legislature and Executive
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Presenter: Feler Bose
Co-Author(s): Brian Baugus
Discussant: Christoph Vanberg
Linguistics and legislative intent
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Presenter: Timothy Grinsell
Discussant: Mark Crain
Room: Blanco
Institutional Determinants and Institutional Quality
Session Chair:
Paul Dragos Aligica
Rational Calculation, the Price System and the Non-profit Organization: Charting the Puzzle of the Nonprofit Enterprise through Public Choice and Austrian Theoretical Lenses
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Presenter: Paul Dragos Aligica
Co-Author(s): Cameron Harwick
Discussant: Marc St-Pierre
The Political and Economic Determinants of Cultural Values
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Presenter: Andrew Heritage
Discussant: Irina Mirkina
Shadow economy, happiness and the quality of institutions: An empirical analysis.
Presenter: Marc St-Pierre
Discussant: Paul Dragos Aligica
Pushed by Poverty or by Institutions? An Analysis of Migration Determinants
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Presenter: Irina Mirkina
Co-Author(s): Andreas Bergh, Therese Nilsson
Discussant: Andrew Heritage
Room: Garden Terrace #1
Rent Seeking
Session Chair:
Ryan Young
Rent-Seeking and Income Inequality
Presenter: Bob Subrick
Discussant: George Hwang
Housing Market and Agglomeration of Rent-Seeking Activities: Implications for Regional Development
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Presenter: Chia-Ming Yu
Co-Author(s): Eric S. Lin, Shin-Kun Peng, Chia-Ming Yu
Discussant: Bob Subrick
The welfare costs of rent-seeking in an entrepreneurial economy
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Presenter: George Hwang
Discussant: Ryan Young
Why So Little Rent-Seeking? Virtue and Vice in Capitalist Behavior
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Presenter: Ryan Young
Co-Author(s): Fred L. Smith, Jr. and Ryan Young
Discussant: Chia-Ming Yu
Room: Frio
Measuring the Impact of Regulation
Session Chair:
Lynne Kiesling
Understanding the Effect of 20th Century Regulation on 21st Century Experimentation and Technological Change in Electricity Markets
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Presenter: Lynne Kiesling
Discussant: Patrick McLaughlin
The Aggregate Cost of Regulations: A Structural Estimation of a Tractable Multi-Sector Endogenous Growth Model
Presenter: Patrick McLaughlin
Co-Author(s): Bentley Coffey; Pietro Peretto
Discussant: Sunjoo Park
Who determine the industrial electricity price: regulators, utilities, or manufacturers?
Presenter: Sunjoo Park
Co-Author(s): Iryna Lendel, Eunkyu Lee
Discussant: Lynne Kiesling
Room: Garden Terrace #2
Education and Opportunities
Session Chair:
Larry Kenny
Classroom Quality and Student Achievement
Presenter: Moiz Bhai
Co-Author(s): Irina Horoi
Discussant: Pavel Dramski
Putting a Lid on the Melting Pot: The Political Economy of American Immigration Policy
Presenter: Zachary Gochenour
Discussant: Qinping Feng
Immigrant Children and Public Education Finance
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Presenter: Qinping Feng
Discussant: Zachary Gochenour
Room: Mesquite
Lotteries
Session Chair:
Steven Brams
Sequential lottery
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Presenter: Doron Klunover
Co-Author(s): Nava Kahana
Discussant: Benjamin Ogden
How to Divide Things Fairly
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Presenter: Steven Brams
Co-Author(s): D. Marc Kilgour
Discussant: Wolfgang Leininger
The Imperfect Beliefs Voting Model
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Presenter: Benjamin Ogden
Discussant: Doron Klunover
Revenue Maximizing Head Starts in Contests
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Presenter: Wolfgang Leininger
Co-Author(s): Jörg Franke, Dortmund University, Cedric Wasser, Bonn University
Discussant: Steven Brams
Institutions & Well-Being III
Session Chair:
Daniel Bennett
Session Organizer:
Boris Nikolaev
Economic Freedom and Economic Crisis
Presenter: Christian Bjørnskov
Discussant: Nabamita Dutta
Aiding Economic Freedom
Presenter: Nabamita Dutta
Co-Author(s): Williamson Claudia
Disentangling the impact of institutions and human capital on economic development: Some evidence
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Presenter: Hugo Faria
Co-Author(s): Hugo Montesinos, Daniel Morales and Carlos Navarro
Discussant: Christian Bjørnskov
Weeding out the Good Apples: Economic Development, Changing Prodcution Structures and Bureaucratic Cultures of Corruption
Presenter: Sanjay jain
Discussant: Hugo Faria
Room: Rio Grande East
Public Choice and the Fiscal Constitution
Session Organizer:
Georg Vanberg
The reform of a fiscal constitution: inter-governmental relations in Germany
Presenter: Jan Schnellenbach
Discussant: Viktor Vanberg
Competitive Federalism, the Two Roles of Government, and the Power to Tax
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Presenter: Viktor Vanberg
Discussant: Vlad Tarko
The Economic Theory of a Compound Republic: A Calculus of Consent Model of Self-Governance, Institutional Diversity, and Optimal Federalism
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Presenter: Vlad Tarko
Discussant: Georg Vanberg
Room: Nueces
Regulation 2
Session Chair:
Patrick McLaughlin
Regulation of Industry, Employment, and Entrepreneurship
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Presenter: Diana Thomas
Co-Author(s): James Bailey
Discussant: Sharon Tennyson
Unpacking the Effects of Political Competition on the Quality of Business Regulation
Presenter: Andrei Zhirnov
Co-Author(s): Dina Balalaeva
Discussant: Diana Thomas
Does Regulation Enhance or Inhibit Turnover of Firms by Industry?
Presenter: Patrick McLaughlin
Co-Author(s): Matt Mitchell; Thomas Stratmann
Discussant: Andrei Zhirnov
THE AIRLINE PASSENGER PROTECTION RULE: AIRLINE RESPONSE AND ON-TIME PERFORMANCE
Presenter: Sharon Tennyson
Co-Author(s): Sra Chuenchoksan, Andrew M. McClintock
Discussant: Patrick McLaughlin
Room: Blanco
Creative Destruction and Economic Transformation
Session Chair:
Leone Leonida
Measuring Creative Destruction
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Presenter: Rick Weber
Discussant: Richard Jong-A-Pin
The Creative Destruction of Predatory Elite Coalitions
Presenter: Petrus Sundin Olander
Discussant: Leone Leonida
Political leader survival: does competence matter?
Presenter: Richard Jong-A-Pin
Co-Author(s): Shu Yu
Discussant: Rick Weber
Room: Frio
Taxes 1
Session Chair:
Michael Stroup
Taxing Girl Scout Cookies while Exempting Jazz in the Woods: An Empirical Analysis of State Sales Tax Exemptions for Nonprofit Organizations
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Presenter: Sarah Larson
Co-Author(s): Kellie L. McGiverin-Bohan
Discussant: Michael Stroup
Fiscal Privileges, Consolidation Attempts and Pigouvian Taxes
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Presenter: Toshihiro Ihori
Discussant: Oskar Nupia
What is the Best Index for Measuring Tax Progressivity?
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Presenter: Michael Stroup
Co-Author(s): Keith Hubbard
Discussant: Sarah Larson
Income Taxation, Political Accountability and the Provision of Public Goods.
Presenter: Oskar Nupia
Discussant: Toshihiro Ihori
Room: Garden Terrace #2
Financial Regulation
Session Chair:
Daniel Arce
Indirect Ethics and Backdoor Bailouts: The Case of AIG
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Presenter: Daniel Arce
Co-Author(s): Laura Razzolini
Discussant: Paul Mueller
Political Economy of Target 2
Presenter: Aleksandar Tomic
Discussant: Caitlin Ainsley
Room: Mesquite
Voters and Candidates
Session Chair:
Stanley Winer
The economic consequences of candidate selection
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Presenter: Marco A. Perez-Mares
Discussant: Stanley Winer
Toward a Tri-Modal Distribution of Voter Preferences? A Theory of Partisanship and Political Advertising
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Presenter: M. Garrett Roth
Discussant: Somdeep Chatterjee
Measuring Electoral Competitiveness in a Parliamentary Democracy
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Presenter: Stanley Winer
Co-Author(s): Stephen Ferris, Bernard Grofman
Discussant: Marco A. Perez-Mares
Do People Vote to Make a Statement? Evidence of Expressive Voting from a Natural Experiment in India
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Presenter: Somdeep Chatterjee
Discussant: M. Garrett Roth
Room: Garden Terrace #1
Understanding International Challenges
Session Chair:
Thi Kim Cuong PHAM
Fighter jet diplomacy: Political applications of airspace intrusions and interceptions of military aircraft.
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Presenter: Soeren Schwuchow
Co-Author(s): Athanassios Pitsoulis and Martin Gassebner
Discussant: Thi Kim Cuong PHAM
Buying Off or Fighting Off? Interstate Crisis Bargaining with Bilateral Aid
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Presenter: Jeremy Wells
Discussant: Beatriz Maldonado
Efficient and fair allocation of aid
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Presenter: Thi Kim Cuong PHAM
Co-Author(s): Patrick Guillaumont, Phu Nguyen-Van, Laurent Wagner
Discussant: Soeren Schwuchow
Divided Government in Latin America
Presenter: Beatriz Maldonado
Co-Author(s): Peter Calcagno
Discussant: Jeremy Wells
Room: Rio Grande Center
Models of Political Behavior
Session Chair:
Robi Ragan
Dynamic Veto Player Theory: Revised Ramifications, Integrative Implications
Presenter: Brandon Zicha
Discussant: Robi Ragan
VoteR: Spatial Voting Models in R
Presenter: Robi Ragan
Discussant: Lars Metzger
Contests with endogenous alliances and incomplete information
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Presenter: Lars Metzger
Discussant: Magnus Hoffmann
Multiple Rounds and Endogenous Timing in Endogenous Prize Contests with Asymmetric Valuation
Presenter: Magnus Hoffmann
Discussant: Brandon Zicha
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Institutions
Session Chair:
Danko Tarabar
Session Organizer:
Joshua Hall
Staying the Path: The Role of Cultural Values on the Survival of Pro-Growth Institutions
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Presenter: Michelle Vachris
Co-Author(s): Justin P. Isaacs
Discussant: Danko Tarabar
Legal Origins and the Distributional Consequences of the Rule of Law: Evidence of the Engerman-Sokoloff & Friedman Hypotheses
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Presenter: Daniel Bennett
Discussant: Hugo Faria
EU and Reform Convergence: Does Membership Promote Interjurisdictional Competition?
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Presenter: Danko Tarabar
Co-Author(s): Andrew T. Young
Discussant: Daniel Bennett
Some Evidence on the Importance of Economic and Political Institutions as Predictors of Development
Presenter: Hugo Faria
Co-Author(s): Daniel Bennett, Hugo Faria, James Gwartney and Daniel Morales
Discussant: Michelle Vachris
Room: Garden Terrace #1
Entrepreneurial Governance
Session Chair:
Lotta Moberg
Session Organizer:
Lotta Moberg
Political Parties as Peculiar Institutions
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Presenter: David Hebert
Co-Author(s): Richard E Wagner
Discussant: Ryan Safner
Liberalizing Rent-Seeking: How Export Processing Zones Can Save or Sink an Economy
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Presenter: Lotta Moberg
Discussant: David Hebert
Wiki-nomics: Bringing Institutions Back into the Analysis of Copyright with a Case Study of Wikipedia
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Presenter: Ryan Safner
Discussant: Vlad Tarko
Room: Rio Grande West
The Third Sector: Insights from the Ostroms’ Public Choice Institutionalism Perspective
Session Chair:
Lenore Ealy
Session Organizer:
Paul Dragos Aligica
The Philanthropic Enterprise: Ideas, Institutions, Orders and Organizations from Cornuelle to the Ostroms
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Presenter: Lenore Ealy
Discussant: Richard Wagner
The Third Sector: Charting the Territory through Ostromian Theoretical Lenses
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Presenter: Paul Dragos Aligica
Discussant: Richard Wagner
A Microfoundation of Social Entrepreneurship: Ostromian Polycentricity and Hayekian Knowledge
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Presenter: Gordon Shockley
Co-Author(s): Peter Frank
Discussant: Richard Wagner
Poverty Alleviation as an Economic Problem
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Presenter: Adam Martin
Co-Author(s): Matias Petersen
Discussant: Richard Wagner
Room: Nueces
Egoism, Altruism, and Public Choice
Session Chair:
Onkar Ghate
Session Organizer:
Onkar Ghate
Understanding Egoism and Altruism
Presenter: Onkar Ghate
Discussant: Richard Salsman
Are the Wrong People Self-Interested, and for the Wrong Reasons? A Partial Re-Re-Habilitation of the Public Interest Theory”
Presenter: Michael Munger
Discussant: Onkar Ghate
Egoism, Altruism & the Intergenerational Effects of Public Debt”
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Presenter: Richard Salsman
Discussant: Steve Simpson
Cronyism: A Case Study in Why a Normative View of Government Matters”
Presenter: Steve Simpson
Discussant: Michael Munger
Room: Rio Grande Center
Handbook of Social Choice and Voting: Related Papers
Session Chair:
Nicholas Miller
Session Organizer:
Nicholas Miller
An Expected Utility Analysis of the Optimal k-Majority Rule
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Presenter: Keith Dougherty
Co-Author(s): Robi Ragan
Condorcet Jury Theorem and Supermajority Rules
Presenter: Bryan McCannon
Discussant: Nicolaus Tideman
Election Inversions Under Variants of the U.S. Electoral College
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Presenter: Nicholas Miller
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Nicholas Miller
Expressive Voting and the Median Voter Theory: An Agent Based Approach
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Presenter: Eric Hammer
Discussant: Keith Dougherty
Room: Blanco
Public Choice Insights for Regulatory Reform
Session Chair:
Lynne Kiesling
Session Organizer:
Susan Dudley
Political Influences on the Quality and Use of Regulatory Analysis
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Presenter: Jerry Ellig
Discussant: Susan Dudley
Institutions & Incentives for Regulatory Reform
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Presenter: Susan Dudley
Talking Reg Reform is Easy – Doing Reg Reform is Hard
Presenter: Donald Arbuckle
Discussant: Brian Mannix
Minimizing Rent-Seeking
Presenter: Brian Mannix
Room: Frio
Environmental Dilemmas
Session Chair:
Tracy Snoddon
Addressing Externalities, Moving from the Right Price to Improving Transaction Efficiency
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Presenter: Jason Scheppers
Discussant: Patrick O’Reilly
An Empirical Investigation into the Political Economy of Extended Producer Responsibility Laws for Electronic Waste in the United States
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Presenter: Patrick O’Reilly
Discussant: Tracy Snoddon
Prospects for Integrated Carbon Taxes in Canada: Lessons from Federal-Provincial Tax Coordination
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Presenter: Tracy Snoddon
Discussant: Sebastian Miller
Understanding environmental conflicts in large projects
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Presenter: Sebastian Miller
Co-Author(s): Raul O’Ryan
Discussant: Jason Scheppers
Room: Mesquite
Corruption, Trust, and Economic Freedom
Session Chair:
Dennis Coates
Economic Freedom and Corruption: Granger Causality Tests
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Presenter: Dennis Coates
Co-Author(s): Adrienne Taylor
Discussant: Friedrich Schneider
Institutional Constraints on Government Favoritism: An Analysis of State Gift Clauses
Presenter: Christopher Koopman
Co-Author(s): Matthew Mitchell
Discussant: Hans Pitlik
Does Corruption Promote Emigration? An Empirical Examination
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Presenter: Friedrich Schneider
Co-Author(s): Arusha Cooray
Discussant: Dennis Coates
Social trust, institutional and political constraints on the executive, and deregulation of markets
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Presenter: Hans Pitlik
Co-Author(s): Markus Leibrecht
Discussant: Christopher Koopman
Formal Models of Political Institutions
Session Organizer:
Georg Vanberg
‘If we are wrong…the courts will correct it’: Legislative Voting, Position Taking, and Judicial Review
Presenter: Joseph Ura
The Role of the Judiciary and the Military in Recent Egyptian Political Transitions: A Game Theoretic Model
Presenter: Sahar Aziz
Co-Author(s): James Rogers
Discussant: Georg Vanberg
Informational Pathologies of Bicameralism
Presenter: James Rogers
Co-Author(s): Caitlin Ainsley , Cliff Carrubba
Non-median outcomes and bargaining on collegial courts
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Presenter: Georg Vanberg
Room: Rio Grande Center
Tullock’s Contributions II: Rationalizing Scientific Inquiry – Sponsored by Liberty Fund
Session Chair:
Nicolaus Tideman
Session Organizer:
Roger Congleton
Gordon Tullock on the rational silence of economists
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Presenter: David Levy
Co-Author(s): Sandra Peart
Tullock’s Contribution to Experimental Economics
Presenter: Daniel Houser
Tullock’s Contribution to Sociobiology and Bioeconomics
Presenter: Janet Landa
Discussant: David Levy
Tullock’s Contribution to Law and Economics
Presenter: Francesco Parisi
Discussant: Daniel Houser
Room: Nueces
50 Years of the Logic of Collective Action: New Applications – Sponsored by The William E. Simon Professorship of Political Economy at Lafayette College
Session Chair:
Jac Heckelman
Session Organizer:
Jac Heckelman
The Collective Action Problem in Public Interest Groups
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Presenter: Richard Jankowski
Discussant: Todd Sandler
Visigothic Retinues: Roving Bandits that Succeeded Rome
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Presenter: Andrew Young
Discussant: Keith Dougherty
International Security, Insurance, and Protection: Negative Spillovers within Alliances
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Presenter: Shintaro Nakagawa
Co-Author(s): Toshihiro Ihori, Martin C McGuire
Discussant: Jac Heckelman
Room: Rio Grande West
William Shughart’s Taxing Choice: 17 Years Later
Session Chair:
Adam Hoffer
Session Organizer:
Adam Hoffer
William Shughart’s Taxing Choice: 17 Years Later
Presenter: Adam Hoffer
Discussant: Randall Holcombe
Taxing Choice
Presenter: William Shughart
Discussant: Todd Nesbit
Earmarks: Leviathan’s Secret Weapon
Presenter: George Crowley
Discussant: George Crowley
Selective Taxation from the Interest Group Perspective
Presenter: Randall Holcombe
Discussant: William Shughart
Excise Tax Rates and Smuggling
Presenter: Todd Nesbit
Discussant: Adam Hoffer
Room: Frio
Party and Legislative Decisions
Session Chair:
Bernard Grofman
Party Discipline and Government Spending
Presenter: Marta Curto-Grau
Co-Author(s): Galina Zudenkova
Discussant: Monika Koeppl-Turyna
Components of Party Polarization in the U.S. House of Representatives
Presenter: Bernard Grofman
Co-Author(s): Thomas L. Brunell and Samuel Merrill, III
Discussant: Qinping Feng
How public funding of parties can lead to political polarization
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Presenter: Monika Koeppl-Turyna
Discussant: Marta Curto-Grau
Demographic Structure and the Political Economy of Immigrant Public Benefit Access
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Presenter: Qinping Feng
Discussant: Bernard Grofman
Room: Mesquite
Public Finance and Leviathan
Session Chair:
Benjamin Powell
War and the Growth of Government: A Cross-Country Examination of the Higgsian Ratchet
Presenter: Benjamin Powell
Co-Author(s): Colin O’Reilly
Discussant: Yaniv Reingewertz
The Vertical Tax Externality: Evidence from Narrative Federal Tax Shocks
Presenter: Yaniv Reingewertz
Co-Author(s): Ohad Raveh
Discussant: SHIGEKI KUNIEDA
Is the Argument by Alesina regarding the Mix of Revenue-Increasing Measures and Expenditure Cuts in Fiscal Consolidation Applicable to Japan?
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Presenter: SHIGEKI KUNIEDA
Discussant: Benjamin Powell
Short-run and Long-run Fiscal Effects of Supermajority Rule to Raise Taxes: Strategic Responses of State Legislators
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Presenter: Soomi Lee
Discussant: Peter Calcagno
Room: Garden Terrace #1
Roundtable Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of Classics of Social Choice by Arnie Urken and Iain McLain
Session Chair:
Edward Lopez
Did the Classical Theorists Miss Something?
Presenter: Steven Brams
Video Remarks: “From a dropped canapé in the Institut de France to a frozen yogurt in Tucson: The making of Classics of Social Choice”
Presenter: Iain McLean
Time, Communication, and Voting Theory
Presenter: Arnold Urken
Remarks on the Classics of Social Choice
Presenter: Nicholas Miller
Room: Garden Terrace #2
Christian Perspectives on Cronyism and State-Run Enterprises
Session Chair:
Anne Bradley
Session Organizer:
Anne Bradley
How Cronyism Makes the Rich Richer at the Expense of the Poor: A Moral Case Against Cronyism
Presenter: Anne Bradley
Discussant: Joy Buchanan
Institutions Exposed through Natural Resource Governance Structures
Presenter: Joy Buchanan
Discussant: Joseph Connors
A Christian Perspective on Cronyism
Presenter: Joseph Connors
Discussant: Anne Bradley
Health Economics
Session Chair:
Joshua Hall
Session Organizer:
Joshua Hall
Economic Freedom, Ethnicity, and Health Disparities: Evidence from the 50 States
Presenter: Joshua Hall
Co-Author(s): Brad Humphreys , Jane Ruseski
Discussant: James Bailey
Do Big Box Grocers Improve Food Security?
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Presenter: Art Carden
Co-Author(s): Charles Courtemanche , Murugi Ndirangu , Zhou Xilin
Discussant: Anna Chorniy
Do Health Insurance Mandates Discourage Employment?
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Presenter: James Bailey
Co-Author(s): Douglas Webber
Discussant: Art Carden
Employer-Provided Health Insurance and Job Mobility
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Presenter: Anna Chorniy
Co-Author(s): James Bailey
Discussant: Joshua Hall
Room: Rio Grande East
The Legacy of Thomas Borcherding (1939-2014)
Session Organizer:
Soomi Lee
Talking About Not Talking: Applying Deming’s New Economics and Denzau and North’s New Institutional Economics to improve inter-organizational systems thinking and performance
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Presenter: Art Denzau
Co-Author(s): Ravi Roy, Henrick Minassians
Local Public Education Expenditures: Do Voters Propose and Teachers’Unions Dispose
Presenter: Padmapriya Gollapudi
Discussant: Ravi Roy
The Reservation Cost of Voting: The Differential Cost of Collecting and Casting Votes for Voters Living on and off Reservations in Montana
Presenter: Moana Vercoe
Co-Author(s): Andrea Walters,Colleen Mahoney
Popular Music And Crime “The Cop-Killer Eras in Popular Music”
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Presenter: Bret Thompson
Room: Rio Grande Center
50 Years of the Logic of Collective Action: Extensions and Criticisms
Session Chair:
Jac Heckelman
Session Organizer:
Jac Heckelman
The Logic of Collective Action and Beyond
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Presenter: Roger Congleton
Discussant: Michael Munger
Tuck on Olson: Does Olson mischaracterize the free-rider problem as a Sorites problem?
Presenter: Geoffrey Brennan
Discussant: Dennis Coates
The Logic of Collective Action and Technology-Enabled Forms of Association
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Presenter: Dinissa Duvanova
Discussant: Marek Kaminski
Room: Blanco
Economic Thought in Public Choice
Session Chair:
David Levy
From clientelism to authoritarianism: a 21st century road to serfdom?
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Presenter: Nick Cowen
Co-Author(s): Aris Trantidis
Discussant: Alex Gill
Information and Evolution in Economics: Stiglitz versus Hayek
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Presenter: Alex Gill
Co-Author(s): Peter J. Boettke
Discussant: David Levy
Ronald Coase and the Fabian Society: Competitive Discussion in Liberal Ideology
Presenter: David Levy
Co-Author(s): Sandra J. Peart
Discussant: Nick Cowen
Room: Garden Terrace #1
Fiscal Policy
Session Chair:
Nimah Mazaheri
The Specialization Curse: Economic Specialization and its Effect on Public Goods Provision
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Presenter: Nimah Mazaheri
Co-Author(s): Benjamin S. Barber IV
Discussant: Haldun Evrenk
Political business cycles in Armenia: the concept and measurability
Presenter: Arsen Manukyan
Co-Author(s): Rustem M. Nureev
Discussant: Nimah Mazaheri
Room: Garden Terrace #2
Social Welfare Policy
Session Chair:
Meg Patrick Tuszynski
From an Art and Science of Association to a Science of Alms: The Evolution of Public Aid Dependency in the US
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Presenter: Meg Patrick Tuszynski
Discussant: Tetsuro Okazaki
Valence and Media Influence on Elections
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Presenter: Tetsuro Okazaki
Discussant: Alexander Karpov
Patient mobility, health care quality, welfare and regulation
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Presenter: Alexander Karpov
Discussant: Meg Patrick Tuszynski
Room: Rio Grande West
Political Economy of Fiscal Policy
Session Chair:
Stephen Coate
To be rather than to seem: Fiscal illusion and state expenditures in North Carolina
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Presenter: Stephen Miller
Co-Author(s): Zachary Gochenour
Discussant: Stephen Coate
Do Majority Governments Lead to Lower Fiscal Deficits? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
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Presenter: Joaquin Artes
Co-Author(s): Ignacio Jurado
Discussant: Eunji Kim
Optimal Fiscal Limits
Presenter: Stephen Coate
Discussant: Stephen Miller
Room: Nueces
Democracy and Economics
Session Chair:
Aziz Berdiev
Democracy and High-Quality Policy Achievement: An Empirical Examination.
Presenter: Dina Balalaeva
Co-Author(s): Olga Shvetsova
Discussant: Marie-Ange Veganzones-Varoudakis
The Determinants of Emergency Constitutions
Presenter: Stefan Voigt
Co-Author(s): Christian Björnskov
Discussant: Francisco Alberto Castellanos Sosa
Financial Vulnerability and Export Dynamics in Developing Countries
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Presenter: Marie-Ange Veganzones-Varoudakis
Co-Author(s): Youssouf Kendrebeogo, Melisse Jaud, and Marie-Ange Véganzonès-Varoudakis***
Discussant: Dina Balalaeva
Democracy and Economic Growth: Analysis by Regions, Country Groups and Income Levels
Presenter: Francisco Alberto Castellanos Sosa
Discussant: Stefan Voigt
Room: Mesquite
Prospects for Reforming Deficits and Debt
Session Chair:
Edward Lopez
Session Organizer:
Peter Calcagno
Pursuing Budget Process Reform: Navigating Competing Political and Economic Interests
Presenter: Baker Spring
The Economics of Budget Deficits
Presenter: William Shughart
Evolution of Budget Rules and Effects on Fiscal Policy
Presenter: Peter Calcagno
Co-Author(s): Edward Lopez
Successful Legislation to Curb Federal Debt: Can We Learn from the States?
Presenter: Thomas Garrett