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 *
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Political Economy Potpourri
Session Chair:
Daniel Sutter
Session Organizer:
Daniel Sutter
Exogenous Tax Changes and Interest rates: Testing for Ricardian Equivalence using an Efficient Markets Model
Presenter: Tony Caporale
Discussant: Marc Poitras
The Effects of Fee Shifting on Settlement and Trial
Presenter: Marc Poitras
Discussant: Michael Toma
Test Score Achievement Gaps: The Role of Choice and Competition
Presenter: Michael Toma
Co-Author(s): Robert Bodaford
Discussant: Gary Wagner
Political Effects on Pension Underfunding
Presenter: Gary Wagner
Co-Author(s): Erick M. Elder
Discussant: Tony Caporale
Room: Carolina Ballroom A
New Book Discussion: The Bourgeois Deal by Deirdre McCloskey and Art Carden, with Comments by Michael Munger, Randy Simmons, and Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
Art Carden
The Bourgeois Deal
Presenter: Art Carden
Co-Author(s): Deirdre McCloskey
Room: Carolina Ballroom B
Political Economy of Economic Policymaking
Session Chair:
Chris Mann
The Business Cycle and the Entry of Third-Party Candidates
Presenter: Yasushi Asako
Co-Author(s): Tetsuya Matsubayashi
Discussant: Mark Crain
It’s a Small Business After All: Regulatory Flexibility in the American States
Presenter: Mark Crain
Discussant: Edward Hoang
Behavioral Effects of the Estate Tax: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in United States
Presenter: Edward Hoang
Co-Author(s): Nishith Prakash, Stephen Ross
Discussant: Chris Mann
The Impact of Baumol's Disease on Government Size and Taxation
Presenter: Chris Mann
Discussant: Yasushi Asako
Room: Pinckney Room
Leviathan
Session Chair:
Moshe Yanovskiy
IN WAR AS WELL AS IN PEACE: FROM THE DISPLACEMENT EFFECT TO INCREMENTALISM IN PUBLIC EXPENDITURES
Presenter: GIUSEPPE EUSEPI
Co-Author(s): Edgar J. Wilson
Discussant: Stephen Ferris
Government Size, Government Debt and Economic Performance with particular application to New Zealand
Presenter: Stephen Ferris
Discussant: Thomas Firey
The Return of “Starve the Beast”: The Law of Demand and the Future of Smaller Government
Presenter: Thomas Firey
Co-Author(s): Stephen Slivinski, Goldwater Institute
Discussant: Moshe Yanovskiy
Democracy of "Taxation-Redistribution" and Peacetime Budget Deficit
Presenter: Moshe Yanovskiy
Co-Author(s): Daniel Shestakov, Sergei Zhavoronkov
Discussant: GIUSEPPE EUSEPI
Room: Middleton Room
Institutions and Incentives in Fiscal Policy
Session Chair:
Christoph Schröder
Supermajority Rule to Raise Taxes and Its Fiscal Outcome in California: A Causal Inference Using Synthetic Control Methods
Presenter: Soomi Lee
Discussant: Yoon jeong Chang
New establishment of Congressional budgetary institution and the quality of budget process- evidence from Korea
Presenter: Yoon jeong Chang
Co-Author(s): Eunji Kim, Sangheon Kim
Discussant: Marina Riem
Debt brakes in the German states: Which governments do take it seriously?
Presenter: Marina Riem
Co-Author(s): Niklas Potrafke, Christoph Schinke
Discussant: Christoph Schröder
Which Restructuring Features Prevent Serial Sovereign Debt Restructurings?
Presenter: Christoph Schröder
Discussant: Soomi Lee
Room: Laurens Room
Party Politics
Session Chair:
Andrei Zhirnov
Election Times Are Different: Bureaucratic Institutions and Political Budget Cycles in American State Governments
Presenter: David Bostashvili
Discussant: William B. Hankins
Partisan Politics and Federal Spending at the State Level
Presenter: William B. Hankins
Co-Author(s): Gary Hoover, Paul Pecorino
Discussant: Larry Kenny
The Emergence of a Two Party South: a Spatial Voting Perspective
Presenter: Larry Kenny
Discussant: Andrei Zhirnov
Room: Rutledge Room
Empirical Studies in the American States
Session Chair:
Kaitlyn Wolf
The Impact of Government Employees Voting Preferences on Election Outcome
Presenter: Brian Baugus
Co-Author(s): George Diemer
Discussant: Bryan McCannon
Elections and the Courtroom
Presenter: Bryan McCannon
Discussant: Patrick Warren
Outsourcing and Ownership: Theory and Evidence from California General Care Hospitals
Presenter: Patrick Warren
Co-Author(s): Christina Marsh, UGA
Discussant: Kaitlyn Wolf
Prison Guard Unions and Harsh Crime Policy
Presenter: Kaitlyn Wolf
Discussant: Brian Baugus
Room: Calhoun Room
Interest Groups and Collective Action
Session Chair:
William English
When are lobbying and bribery complements versus substitutes? Reconciling two literatures through a unique compilation of Enterprise Survey data
Presenter: William English
Co-Author(s): Ben Barber, Oz Dincer
Discussant: Toshihiro Ihori
Conflicting Interest Groups, Contentious Public Goods, and Cooperation
Presenter: Toshihiro Ihori
Discussant: Paul Pecorino
Olson 65 Revisited: A Review Essay
Presenter: Paul Pecorino
Discussant: Katsuyoshi Nakazawa
Amalgamation and free-ride behavior in Japanese municipalities
Presenter: Katsuyoshi Nakazawa
Discussant: William English
Room: Parkview Room
Constitutional Political Economy Topics
Session Chair:
Alexander Salter
The Constitutionalization of Money: A Constitutional Economics Perspective
Presenter: Viktor Vanberg
Co-Author(s): Ekkehard A. Köhler
Discussant: Olga Nicoara
The Role Of Ideology In Constitutional Craftsmanship: Evidence From India
Presenter: Shruti Rajagopalan
Discussant: Alexander Salter
Calhoun's Concurrent Majority as a Generality Norm
Presenter: Alexander Salter
Discussant: Viktor Vanberg
The Political Economy of Good Governance
Session Chair:
Joshua Hall
Session Organizer:
Joshua Hall
A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Spend (As Much): The Fiscal Effect of Separate Taxing and Spending Committees in State Legislatures
Presenter: Matthew Mitchell
Co-Author(s): Pavel Yakovlev
Discussant: Alexander Salter
Is There a Self-Enforcing Monetary Constitution?
Presenter: Alexander Salter
Discussant: Robert Salvino
State Budget Stabilization Funds: Effective Fiscal Constraints or Lip Service?
Presenter: Robert Salvino
Discussant: J. Kerry Waller
The Expenditure Effects of Sunset Laws in State Governments
Presenter: J. Kerry Waller
Discussant: Matthew Mitchell
Room: Colonial Ballroom
Legislative Institutions and Legislative Bargaining
Session Chair:
Christoph Vanberg
Session Organizer:
Georg Vanberg
Persistence of Power: Dynamic Multilateral Bargaining
Presenter: Marina Agranov
Co-Author(s): Chloe Tergiman
Discussant: Nels Christiansen
Greasing the Wheels: Pork and Public Goods Contributions in a Legislative Bargaining Experiment
Presenter: Nels Christiansen
Discussant: Georg Vanberg
Decision rules, group size, and communication in legislative bargaining
Presenter: Christoph Vanberg
Co-Author(s): Luis Miller
Discussant: Marina Agranov
Room: Pinckney Room
Political Economy of Natural Disasters
Session Chair:
Daniel Sutter
Session Organizer:
Daniel Sutter
Investigating Power Laws in Earthquake Damages
Presenter: Calvin Blackwell
Discussant: Daniel Sutter
Coordination in Disaster: Nonprice Learning and Coordination after Natural Disaster
Presenter: Daniel Sutter
Co-Author(s): Daniel J. Smith
Discussant: Monica Escaleras
The Effects of Natural Disasters on Human Rights
Presenter: Jerg Gutmann
Co-Author(s): Stefan Voigt
Discussant: Calvin Blackwell
Room: Parkview Room
Economic Institutions and Well-Being
Session Chair:
Daniel Bennett
Session Organizer:
Boris Nikolaev
Liberty and Justice for All? Distributional Consequences of the Rule of Law
Presenter: Daniel Bennett
Discussant: Moshe Yanovskiy
Economic Freedom and the Education of Women: An Empirical Analysis
Presenter: Rosemarie Fike
Discussant: Bjoern Kauder
Economic Freedom and Subjective Well-being -- Revisiting the Relationship
Presenter: Boris Nikolaev
Discussant: Daniel Bennett
Just hire your spouse: Empirical evidence from a new type of political favoritism
Presenter: Bjoern Kauder
Co-Author(s): Niklas Potrafke
Discussant: Rosemarie Fike
The Limits of Governmental Intervention: Some ways how Government belongs in the bedroom and nursery
Presenter: Sergei Zhavoronkov
Co-Author(s): Daniel Shestakov, Moshe Yanovskiy
Discussant: Boris Nikolaev
Room: Middleton Room
Origins of Policies in the American States
Session Chair:
Joshua Pierson
The Political Roots of Health Insurance Benefit Mandates
Presenter: James Bailey
Co-Author(s): Douglas Webber
Discussant: Moiz Bhai
The Draft and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Presenter: Moiz Bhai
Under the Table and Dreaming: Differences in State Minimum Wage Rates and Selective Migration of Immigrants and Domestic Residents by Education
Presenter: Sean Mulholland
Co-Author(s): Kristen Veit
Discussant: Joshua Pierson
Room: Carolina Ballroom A
Political Economy in Different Systems
Session Chair:
John Gasper
The Politics of Denying Aid: An Analysis of Disaster Declaration Turndowns.
Presenter: John Gasper
Discussant: Meg Patrick Tuszynski
The Creation of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans: When Politics Trumps Health
Presenter: Meg Patrick Tuszynski
Discussant: Christopher Boudreaux
Protection for sale in a direct democracy
Presenter: Christopher Boudreaux
Discussant: Nakul Kumar
Tactical Redistribution in Coalition Politics; Evidence from Indian Disaster Relief.
Presenter: Nakul Kumar
Discussant: John Gasper
Room: Carolina Ballroom B
Empirical Political Economy Around the World
Session Chair:
Yogesh Uppal
The Effect of Democracy on Economic Growth: Results from a Natural Experiment in Indonesia
Presenter: Sara Moricz
Co-Author(s): Fredrik Sjöholm
Discussant: Arash Pourebrahimi
Voter Turnout in the Iranian Presidential Elections: The Impact of Ideological Differences among Candidates
Presenter: Arash Pourebrahimi
Co-Author(s): Madeleine O. Hosli
Discussant: Yogesh Uppal
Financial Liberalization, Freedom, and Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from India’s manufacturing sector
Presenter: Zhenhui Xu
Discussant: Sara Moricz
Room: Rutledge Room
Parties and Elections
Session Chair:
Malte Pehl
The lawyers' comparative advantage in parliamentary elections
Presenter: Raphael Franck
Discussant: Malte Pehl
What Does it Take to be a Mayor?
Presenter: Nicolas Gavoille
Co-Author(s): Jean-Michel Josselin, Fabio Padovano.
Discussant: Raphael Franck
Partisan Dynamics in Euroland
Presenter: Bruno JEROME
Co-Author(s): Véronique Jerôme, Michael Lewis-Beck, and Richard Nadeau
Discussant: Nicolas Gavoille
Non-Duvergerian Voting in Indian State-Level Elections
Presenter: Malte Pehl
Co-Author(s): Grofman, Bernard / Uppal, Yogesh / Pehl, Malte
Discussant: Bruno JEROME
Room: Laurens Room
Public Good and Voting Experiments
Session Chair:
Jared Barton
Are Political Statements Only Expressive? An Experiment
Presenter: Jared Barton
Co-Author(s): Cortney Rodet
Discussant: Christian Feige
Voting on contributions to a threshold public goods game – an experimental investigation
Presenter: Christian Feige
Co-Author(s): Karl-Martin Ehrhart, Jan Krämer
Discussant: Peter Lewisch
Third party punishment under judicial review: An economic experiment of the effects of appeals and of giving reason
Presenter: Peter Lewisch
Co-Author(s): Stefania Ottone, Ferruccio Ponzano
Discussant: Arthur Zillante
Contribution Limits and Transparency in a Campaign Finance Experiment
Presenter: Arthur Zillante
Co-Author(s): Hanming Fang; Dmitry Shapiro
Discussant: Jared Barton