51st Annual Meetings of the Public Choice Society, Charleston, 2014
- Thursday, March 6
- 3:00pm – 7:00pm
- 5:00pm – 7:00pm
- Friday, March 7
- 7:00am – 8:15am
- 8:00am – 9:30am *
- 9:30am – 10:00am
- 10:00am – 11:20am
- 11:20am – 1:00pm
- 2:40pm – 4:10pm *
- 4:10pm – 4:20pm
- 4:20pm – 5:30pm
- 5:30pm – 7:00pm
- Saturday, March 8
- 7:00am – 8:15am
- 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
- Sunday, March 9
- 7:30am – 8:30am
- 8:30am – 10:00am *
- 10:00am – 10:30am
- 10:30am – 12:00pm *
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Public Choice, Public Policy, and Entrepreneurship
Session Chair:
Noel Campbell
Session Organizer:
Noel Campbell
Immigration Restrictions and Entrepreneurship
Presenter: Zachary Gochenour
Discussant: Dean Stansel
Public Finance versus Urban Vibrancy in New Business Venturing
Presenter: Noel Campbell
Co-Author(s): Stephen Gross, Dean Stansel
Discussant: Zachary Gochenour
Economic Freedom, Homeownership, and Unemployment
Presenter: Frank Stephenson
Co-Author(s): Lauren R. Heller
Discussant: Noel Campbell
Political Entrepreneurship: The United States’ Peaceful Power Transition
Presenter: Noel Campbell
Co-Author(s): Marcus Witcher
Discussant: Frank Stephenson
Room: Calhoun Room
Creating Constitutions
Session Chair:
Iain McLean
Session Organizer:
Keith Dougherty
A Test of the Great Unraveling Hypothesis
Presenter: Roger Congleton
Co-Author(s): DongWoo Yoo
Discussant: Keith Dougherty
The Power of the South: A Multidimensional Analysis of the Philadelphia Convention
Presenter: Keith Dougherty
Co-Author(s): Paul Carlsen (not attending), Ryan Bakker (not attending)
Discussant: Jac Heckelman
State Bloc Versus Individual Delegate Voting at the Constitutional Convention
Presenter: Jac Heckelman
Co-Author(s): Paul Carlsen
Discussant: Jeremy Pope
"Revising Beard: Economic Interests that Organized Voting at the Convention"
Presenter: Jeremy Pope
Co-Author(s): Shawn Treier
Discussant: Roger Congleton
Room: Carolina Ballroom B
New Book Discussion: Bootleggers & Baptists: How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics by Adam C. Smith and Bruce Yandle
Session Chair:
Adam Smith
Session Organizer:
Adam Smith
The History of Bootleggers & Baptists
Presenter: Bruce Yandle
Comment on The History of Bootleggers & Baptists
Presenter: Susan Dudley
The Future of Bootleggers & Baptists
Presenter: Adam Smith
Comment on The Future of Bootleggers & Baptists
Presenter: Diana Thomas
Room: Rutledge Room
Principal Agent Problems
Session Chair:
Todd Collins
The Policy Preferences of Bureaucrats: The Case of Unemployment Insurance
Presenter: Steven Craig
Co-Author(s): Edward C. Hoang
Discussant: Daniel Hicks
Female Leaders and Foreign Aid: The Influence of Preferences on the Level and Composition of Aid
Presenter: Daniel Hicks
Co-Author(s): Joan Hamory Hicks; Beatriz Maldonado
Discussant: Nathanael Snow
Presidential Politics and the Chinese Exclusion Act
Presenter: Nathanael Snow
Discussant: Todd Collins
A “Court” of Public Opinion? Influences on Judicial Decision Making in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Presenter: Todd Collins
Co-Author(s): Chris Cooper
Discussant: Steven Craig
Room: Laurens Room
Geography and Politics
Session Chair:
Jessi Troyan
The Role of Geography on Public Ownership and Residential Electric Rates in the United States: A Historic Perspective
Presenter: Carl Kitchens
Co-Author(s): Werner Troesken
Discussant: Nicola Maaser
Distributional Consequences of Political Representation
Presenter: Nicola Maaser
Co-Author(s): Thomas Stratmann
Discussant: Jessi Troyan
Environmentalism in the 1970s: A Regional Interest Competition Story
Presenter: Jessi Troyan
Discussant: Kathleen Sheehan
Geography, Spatial Spillovers, and Institutional Development
Presenter: Kathleen Sheehan
Discussant: Carl Kitchens
Room: Drayton Room
Game Theoretic Models of Politics
Session Chair:
Amjad Toukan
Consequences of Connection Failure - Centrality and the Importance for Cohesion
Presenter: Julia Belau
Discussant: Thomas Schwartz
Rational Interplay: A Philosophical Critique and Revision of Nash Equilibrium
Presenter: Thomas Schwartz
Discussant: anthony heyes
Corruption in Public Procurement and Social Welfare
Presenter: Amjad Toukan
Discussant: Julia Belau
NGO-rganisation
Presenter: anthony heyes
Co-Author(s): Steve Martin
Discussant: Amjad Toukan
Room: Pinckney Room
Public Finance and Economic Policy
Session Chair:
Stephen Coate
Evaluating Durable Public Good Provision using Housing Prices
Presenter: Stephen Coate
Discussant: Nathan Dong
PPACA, Institional Ownership and Financial Market
Presenter: Nathan Dong
Discussant: Stephen Miller
Income Inequality and Income Shifting: A New Way to Understand the Piketty-Saez Data
Presenter: Stephen Miller
Co-Author(s): George Mechling
Discussant: HAKKI ODABAS
The Causality Relationship between Social Security Expenditure and Economic Growth In Turkey: The Period Of 1980-2010.
Presenter: HAKKI ODABAS
Co-Author(s): M. Hilmi OZKAYA, Emre SAKAR
Discussant: Stephen Coate
Room: Parkview Room
Monetary Public Choice
Session Chair:
Joshua Wojnilower
Session Organizer:
Mario Villarreal
Dissonance Within the Federal Reserve System
Presenter: Paul Mueller
Discussant: Pierre Siklos
WHEN IS LIFT-OFF? EVALUATING FORWARD GUIDANCE FROM THE SHADOW
Presenter: Pierre Siklos
Co-Author(s): Matthias Neuenkirch
Discussant: Joshua Wojnilower
Group Cohesion, Group Selection and the Euro Crisis
Presenter: Ulrich Witt
Discussant: Paul Mueller
The Political Economy of Interest on Reserves
Presenter: Joshua Wojnilower
Co-Author(s): Paul D. Mueller
Discussant: Ulrich Witt
Room: Middleton Room
Voter Perceptions and Preferences
Session Chair:
M. Garrett Roth
The strategic use of rhetoric in political disagreements
Presenter: Stefanie Haeffele-Balch
Co-Author(s): Virgil Henry Storr, Elizabeth Harrison
Discussant: Colin Jennings
Holding on to the flank: An analysis of the electoral use of policy on law and order by New Labour in the UK
Presenter: Colin Jennings
Co-Author(s): Stephen Drinkwater
Discussant: SHIGEKI KUNIEDA
Why Are Magical Economic Policies Chosen?
Presenter: SHIGEKI KUNIEDA
Discussant: M. Garrett Roth
Because I Deserve This: The Demographics of Personal and Public Debt
Presenter: M. Garrett Roth
Discussant: Stefanie Haeffele-Balch
Plenary Session 3: Peltzman on Socialism
Session Chair:
Edward Lopez
The Socialist Revival?
Presenter: Sam Peltzman
Discussant: Robert Lawson
Political Economy of Capitalism
Session Chair:
Peter Calcagno
Session Organizer:
Peter Calcagno
Economic Freedom and Social Capital
Presenter: Jeremy Jackson
Co-Author(s): Art Carden, Ryan Compton
Discussant: Roger Congleton
A Short History of American Liberalism
Presenter: Roger Congleton
Discussant: Robert Lawson
Clusters of Economic Freedom
Presenter: Robert Lawson
Co-Author(s): Toby Huskinson
Discussant: Michael Munger
Entrepreneurial Virtues
Presenter: Michael Munger
Co-Author(s): Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian (Netle)
Discussant: Art Carden
Room: Calhoun Room
Models of Politics
Session Chair:
William Keech
Session Organizer:
Keith Dougherty
Sports Authorities and Economic Development
Presenter: Dennis Coates
Discussant: William Keech
How strong are soccer teams? 'Host paradox' in FIFA's ranking.
Presenter: Marek Kaminski
Discussant: Arthur Zillante
The Value of Formalism: Re-examining External Costs and Decision Costs with Multiple Groups
Presenter: Robi Ragan
Discussant: Arthur Zillante
Re-modeling Pivotal Politics Bargaining: Multiple Agenda Setters and 'Fair' Outcomes
Presenter: Jesse Richman
Discussant: William Keech
Room: Parkview Room
Local Economic Freedom
Session Chair:
Dean Stansel
Session Organizer:
Dean Stansel
An Economic Freedom Index for U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Presenter: Dean Stansel
Discussant: Aleksandar Tomic
Voting with Their Feet: A Spatial Econometric Analysis of MSA to MSA Migration Flows
Presenter: Todd Nesbit
Co-Author(s): Donald LaCombe, Kerry Adzima
Discussant: Dean Stansel
Economic Freedom and Income Mobility
Presenter: Aleksandar Tomic
Discussant: Jamie Bologna
A Spatial Analysis of Growth, Income Levels, and Institutional Quality: Evidence from U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Presenter: Jamie Bologna
Co-Author(s): Andrew T. Young; Donald J. Lacombe
Discussant: Todd Nesbit
Room: Middleton Room
Information, Organization and Legislative Processes
Session Chair:
Jordan Ragusa
The President and the Parties’ Foreign Policies: A Case Study in the Politics of Party Ideology Development
Presenter: Verlan Lewis
Discussant: Matthew Nowlin
Competing Issue Definitions and Information Processing in Congress
Presenter: Matthew Nowlin
Discussant: Kazunobu Okubo
Analyzing Committee Influence on Grant Distribution using Structural Equation Modeling
Presenter: Kazunobu Okubo
Discussant: Jordan Ragusa
Legislative Organization and Repeal Efforts: 1877-2012
Presenter: Jordan Ragusa
Co-Author(s): Nate Birkhead
Discussant: Verlan Lewis
Room: Rutledge Room
Ideas and Economic Liberalization
Session Chair:
Gerhard Wegner
Do you still trust the government? The role of beliefs, performance and crises in shaping confidence in state institutions
Presenter: Hans Pitlik
Discussant: Jorge Streb
Meaningful talk
Presenter: Jorge Streb
Co-Author(s): Gustavo Torrens
Discussant: Gerhard Wegner
Capitalist transformation without political participation – German capitalism in the first half of the 19th century
Presenter: Gerhard Wegner
Discussant: Kyle O'Donnell
Room: Laurens Room
Papers in Social Choice 1
Session Chair:
Junichiro Wada
Proportional Fair Division of Indivisible Items: The Incompatibility of Envy-Freeness, Efficiency, and Maximinality
Presenter: Steven Brams
Co-Author(s): D. Marc Kilgour and Christian Klamler
Discussant: ETSUHIRO NAKAMURA
Rational Information Updating and Dynamics of Party Support
Presenter: ETSUHIRO NAKAMURA
Discussant: Mahendra Prasad
Finitary Cardinal Voting Systems and Arrow's Theorem
Presenter: Mahendra Prasad
Discussant: Junichiro Wada
Apportionment Method from the Viewpoint of Divergence
Presenter: Junichiro Wada
Discussant: Steven Brams
Room: Drayton Room
Cross-Country Studies of Environment and Development
Session Chair:
Rainer Grundmann
Firm characteristics, bribes, and the burden of regulation in developing countries.
Presenter: George Clarke
Discussant: Michael Dorsch
Driving Modern Sector Development - Do Exports and Institutions matter?
Presenter: Rainer Grundmann
Co-Author(s): Thomas Gries
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND PRESSURE GROUPS
Presenter: Mahmut Unsal Sasmaz
Co-Author(s): MAHMUT ÜNSAL SASMAZ
Discussant: George Clarke
Room: Carolina Ballroom A
Institutions and Protection
Session Chair:
Jacob Russ
Violent International Conflict and Economic Institutional Change: Does Involvement in International War Improve or Degrade Economic Freedom?
Presenter: Brandon Brice
Discussant: Marcelo Lacombe
fragile institutions. the role of parliaments and legislative institutions in the evolution for democracy
Presenter: Marcelo Lacombe
Discussant: Gina Miller
All the King’s Men: Fractionation in Indian Country
Presenter: Jacob Russ
Co-Author(s): Thomas Stratmann
Discussant: Brandon Brice
Conditions for the Sustainment of Civil Peace - A Configurational Comparative Analysis
Presenter: Irene Palnau
Co-Author(s): Thomas Gries
Discussant: Jacob Russ
Room: Carolina Ballroom B
Empirical Models of Voter Behavior
Session Chair:
Steven Slutsky
The Transitivity of Individual Preferences: Internal Consistency for Choices among Policy Alternatives
Presenter: James Endersby
Discussant: Richard Jankowski
Epistemic Critiques and Defenses of Democracy: An Empirical Analysis
Presenter: Richard Jankowski
Discussant: Richard F. Potthoff
Estimating Ideal Points from Roll-Call Data: Especially for More Than One Dimension, Could Principal Components Analysis Be Useful?
Presenter: Richard F. Potthoff
Co-Author(s): ---
Discussant: Steven Slutsky
The Effects of Voter Swing and Ad Clutter on Electoral Outcomes
Presenter: Steven Slutsky
Co-Author(s): Deborah Fletcher, Miami University
Discussant: James Endersby
Corruption
Session Chair:
Joshua Hall
Session Organizer:
Joshua Hall
Capitalism and Experienced Public Corruption
Presenter: Daniel Bennett
Co-Author(s): Hugo J. Faria, Daniel R. Morales
Discussant: Jamie Bologna
Press Freedom, Access to Media and Corruption
Presenter: Nabamita Dutta
Co-Author(s): Sanjukta Roy, The World bank, India
Corruption: The Good, the Bad, and the Uncertain
Presenter: Jamie Bologna
Discussant: Nabamita Dutta
The Public Trust and Public Choice
Presenter: Ryan Yonk
Co-Author(s): Randy T. Simmons
Discussant: Daniel Bennett
Room: Parkview Room
Judicial Politics
Session Chair:
Georg Vanberg
Session Organizer:
Georg Vanberg
Reviewing to Learn: Lower Court Conflict and Certiorari
Presenter: Deborah Beim
Discussant: Georg Vanberg
Presidential Selection of Supreme Court Nominees: The Characteristics Approach
Presenter: Charles Cameron
Co-Author(s): Lauren Mattioli
Discussant: David Law
A Model of Judicial Learning
Presenter: Tom Clark
Co-Author(s): Steven Callander
Discussant: Charles Cameron
Institutional Determinants of Judicial Usage of Foreign Law
Presenter: David Law
Discussant: Deborah Beim
Room: Carolina Ballroom A
The Genesis of and Motivations for Public Choice Theory
Session Chair:
Art Carden
Session Organizer:
Onkar Ghate
Constitutional Economics in a World Without Rules
Presenter: Peter Boettke
Discussant: Onkar Ghate
Political Philosophy, Altruism and Government by Magic
Presenter: Onkar Ghate
Discussant: Michael Munger
Thoughts on Origins: Imaginary Vices and Real Virtues
Presenter: Bruce Yandle
Discussant: Peter Boettke
A Unified Framework for Comparing Social Choice Mechanisms
Presenter: Michael Munger
Co-Author(s): William Keech
Discussant: Bruce Yandle
Room: Carolina Ballroom B
The Impact of Cronyism on Faith and Flourishing
Session Chair:
Anne Bradley
Session Organizer:
Kathryn Feliciano
Income Inequality and Cronyism: A Zero-Sum Game
Presenter: Anne Bradley
Discussant: Paul Cleveland
Judeo-Christianity’s Traditional Support for Free Enterprise
Presenter: Paul Cleveland
Discussant: Joseph Connors
Cronyism and Flourishing
Presenter: Joseph Connors
Discussant: Brian Baugus
Entrepreneurship and Cronyism
Presenter: Brian Baugus
Discussant: Anne Bradley
Room: Rutledge Room
Explaining Deficits and Debt
Session Chair:
Linda Veiga
The Evaluation of Election Economy in Turkey: The Periods of 1983-2013
Presenter: Engin Hepaksaz
Co-Author(s): M. Hilmi OZKAYA, Emre SAKAR
Discussant: Brian Piper
Uncertainty is Depressing
Presenter: Brian Piper
Co-Author(s): Kevin Grier, Aaron Smallwood
Discussant: Linda Veiga
Determinants of local governments’ deficits and debt
Presenter: Linda Veiga
Co-Author(s): Francisco Veiga
Discussant: Pihan Tsai
Fiscal Incentives and Political Budget Cycles in China
Presenter: Pihan Tsai
Discussant: Engin Hepaksaz
Room: Middleton Room
Urban Political Economy
Session Chair:
Eunju Kang
Does The Nomination Scheme of The City Manager Matter For Urban Development Policies?
Presenter: Sebastian Garmann
Discussant: Matthew Holian
A Public Choice Analysis of Caltrans
Presenter: Matthew Holian
Discussant: Jeeyeon Yoo
A study on the contracting out and the cost-efficiency of local water utility companies
Presenter: Jeeyeon Yoo
Discussant: Eunju Kang
Privatizing American Cities with Mayors
Presenter: Eunju Kang
Co-Author(s): Mansokku Lee, Assistant Professor of Economics, SUNY Geneseo
Discussant: Sebastian Garmann
Room: Drayton Room
Papers in Social Choice 2
Session Chair:
Dmitriy Vorobyev
Two-Person Fair Division of Indivisible Items: An Efficient, Envy-Free Algorithm
Presenter: D. Marc Kilgour
Co-Author(s): Steven J. Brams, D. Marc Kilgour*, and Christian Klamler
Discussant: Mahendra Prasad
A Simple Visual Proof of May's Theorem for Pedagogical Purposes
Presenter: Mahendra Prasad
Discussant: Dmitriy Vorobyev
Participation in Fraudulent Elections
Presenter: Dmitriy Vorobyev
Discussant: D. Marc Kilgour
Room: Laurens Room
Economics and Politics of Institutional Quality
Session Chair:
Peter Miller
Institutional Quality and the Wealth of Autocrats
Presenter: Randall Holcombe
Co-Author(s): Christopher J. Boudreaux
Discussant: Blake Johnson
Monetary Policy and the Rule of Law
Presenter: Blake Johnson
Co-Author(s): Mark Koyama
Discussant: Peter Miller
Autonony, Political Freedom, and Happiness
Presenter: Peter Miller
Co-Author(s): Sebastiano Bavetta, Dario Maimone Ansaldo Patti, and Pietro Navarra
Discussant: Atin Basuchoudhary
Room: Calhoun Room
Primaries, Parties, and Electoral Politics
Session Chair:
Carly Urban
Operation Chaos?: Primary Raiding and Costly Voting
Presenter: Calvin Blackwell
Co-Author(s): Peter T. Calcagno
Discussant: Monika Koeppl-Turyna
Two-party competition with investment in political capital: a differential game approach
Presenter: Monika Koeppl-Turyna
Discussant: Brandon Schaufele
Dissent in Parliament
Presenter: Brandon Schaufele
Discussant: Carly Urban
Who Comes Back to Their Base? Evidence from Campaign Contributions
Presenter: Carly Urban
Co-Author(s): Sarah Niebler
Discussant: Calvin Blackwell
Plenary Session 4: Coyne on Doing Bad
Session Chair:
Edward Lopez
Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails
Presenter: Chris Coyne