2015 Public Choice Society, March 12-15, San Antonio Texas March 12-15, Hyatt Regency San Antonio Riverwalk
- 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
Room: Rio Grande Foyer
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
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
Presenter: Boris Nikolaev
Co-Author(s): Bennett Daniel
Discussant: Milena Nikolova
Institutions and the Unhappiness Puzzle: Evidence from Transition Economies
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
Presenter: Liya Palagashvili
Discussant: Monika Cule
Inter vivos transfers of business assets in family firms
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
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
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
Presenter: Shlomo Mizrahi
Co-Author(s): Yizhaq Minchuk
Discussant: Trey Carson
Can Politicians Police Themselves? Natural Experimental Evidence from Brazil’s Audit Courts
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
Presenter: Trey Carson
Discussant: Shlomo Mizrahi
Room: Frio
Gender and Discrimination: a Public Choice Approach
Session Chair:
Moshe Yanovskiy
Gender, migration, and labor share
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
Presenter: Silvana Krasteva
Co-Author(s): Huseyin Yildirim
Discussant: Alexander Funcke
Strategic Delegation in Public Investment Competition
Presenter: Taiki Susa
Discussant: Sevgi Ineci
And she's building a stairway to collective action: On stifling and instigating revolutions
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
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."
Presenter: Lawrence Ikem Fejokwu
Discussant: Bjoern Kauder
Do External Experts Prevent Political Biases in Revenue Forecasts? Evidence from Germany
Presenter: Bjoern Kauder
Co-Author(s): Thiess Buettner
Discussant: Bonnie Wilson
Fractionalization, Rent Seeking, and Economic Freedom
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
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
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
Presenter: Andrew Young
Discussant: Bryan McCannon
Prison Growth and Political Interests Across Legal Origins
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
Presenter: Geoffrey Lea
Discussant: Andrew Young
Room: Rio Grande West
Institutions & Well-Being II
Session Chair:
Boris Nikolaev
Session Organizer:
Daniel Bennett
Institutional Convergence
Presenter: Christopher Boudreaux
Co-Author(s): Holcombe Randall
Discussant: Andrew Young
Economic Freedom and the Education of Women: An Empirical Analysis
Presenter: Rosemarie Fike
Discussant: Martin Rode
Free to choose? Economic freedom, relative income, and life control perceptions
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
Presenter: Christopher Yencha
Co-Author(s): Joshua Hall, Amanda Ross
Discussant: Frank Stephenson
Rule of law in a Public Choice Perspective
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
Presenter: Benjamin Chen
Co-Author(s): Zhiyu Li
Discussant: Benjamin Ogden
When Settlements Increase Competition: The Dynamics of Reverse Payment Settlements and Market Entry
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
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.
Presenter: Craig Richardson
Discussant: Alexander Salter
The Economic Characteristics of First Possession Rights to a Heterogeneous Resource: Prior Appropriation Rights to Water
Presenter: Bryan Leonard
Co-Author(s): Gary D. Libecap
Discussant: Michael Giberson
Sovereignty as Exchange of Political Property Rights
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?
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
Presenter: D. Marc Kilgour
Discussant: Markus Reischmann
Plurality Voting Versus Proportional Representation in the Citizen‐Candidate Model
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
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
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
Presenter: Conor Lennon
Discussant: Bonnie Wilson
Does Central Bank Independence Improve Monetary Policymaking?
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
Presenter: Jac Heckelman
Co-Author(s): John Wood
Discussant: Keith Dougherty
Fragmentation and Collective Action: Two Dilemmas of Early Eastern-European Transition.
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.
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
Presenter: Thomas Apolte
Discussant: Arye Hillman
Remembering Gordon Tullock’s Contribution to Efficient Public Choice
Presenter: Nicolaus Tideman
Discussant: Thomas Apolte
Gordon Tullock’s Implicit Analytical History of Government
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
Presenter: Stefan Voigt
Co-Author(s): Jerg Gutmann
Discussant: Ken Sagynbekov
Less Liberty, More Deaths?
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
Presenter: Mark Crain
Discussant: Timothy Grinsell
Sunset Laws: Active Bargaining between the Legislature and Executive
Presenter: Feler Bose
Co-Author(s): Brian Baugus
Discussant: Christoph Vanberg
Linguistics and legislative intent
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
Presenter: Paul Dragos Aligica
Co-Author(s): Cameron Harwick
Discussant: Marc St-Pierre
The Political and Economic Determinants of Cultural Values
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
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
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
Presenter: George Hwang
Discussant: Ryan Young
Why So Little Rent-Seeking? Virtue and Vice in Capitalist Behavior
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
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
Presenter: Qinping Feng
Discussant: Zachary Gochenour
Room: Mesquite
Lotteries
Session Chair:
Steven Brams
Sequential lottery
Presenter: Doron Klunover
Co-Author(s): Nava Kahana
Discussant: Benjamin Ogden
How to Divide Things Fairly
Presenter: Steven Brams
Co-Author(s): D. Marc Kilgour
Discussant: Wolfgang Leininger
The Imperfect Beliefs Voting Model
Presenter: Benjamin Ogden
Discussant: Doron Klunover
Revenue Maximizing Head Starts in Contests
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
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
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
Presenter: Vlad Tarko
Discussant: Georg Vanberg
Room: Nueces
Regulation 2
Session Chair:
Patrick McLaughlin
Regulation of Industry, Employment, and Entrepreneurship
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
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
Presenter: Sarah Larson
Co-Author(s): Kellie L. McGiverin-Bohan
Discussant: Michael Stroup
Fiscal Privileges, Consolidation Attempts and Pigouvian Taxes
Presenter: Toshihiro Ihori
Discussant: Oskar Nupia
What is the Best Index for Measuring Tax Progressivity?
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
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
Presenter: Marco A. Perez-Mares
Discussant: Stanley Winer
Toward a Tri-Modal Distribution of Voter Preferences? A Theory of Partisanship and Political Advertising
Presenter: M. Garrett Roth
Discussant: Somdeep Chatterjee
Measuring Electoral Competitiveness in a Parliamentary Democracy
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
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.
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
Presenter: Jeremy Wells
Discussant: Beatriz Maldonado
Efficient and fair allocation of aid
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
Presenter: Lars Metzger
Discussant: Magnus Hoffmann
Multiple Rounds and Endogenous Timing in Endogenous Prize Contests with Asymmetric Valuation
Presenter: Magnus Hoffmann
Discussant: Brandon Zicha