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 *
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Room: Rio Grande Foyer
Institutions
Session Chair:
Danko Tarabar
Session Organizer:
Joshua Hall
Staying the Path: The Role of Cultural Values on the Survival of Pro-Growth Institutions
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
Presenter: Daniel Bennett
Discussant: Hugo Faria
EU and Reform Convergence: Does Membership Promote Interjurisdictional Competition?
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
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
Presenter: Lotta Moberg
Discussant: David Hebert
Wiki-nomics: Bringing Institutions Back into the Analysis of Copyright with a Case Study of Wikipedia
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
Presenter: Lenore Ealy
Discussant: Richard Wagner
The Third Sector: Charting the Territory through Ostromian Theoretical Lenses
Presenter: Paul Dragos Aligica
Discussant: Richard Wagner
A Microfoundation of Social Entrepreneurship: Ostromian Polycentricity and Hayekian Knowledge
Presenter: Gordon Shockley
Co-Author(s): Peter Frank
Discussant: Richard Wagner
Poverty Alleviation as an Economic Problem
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”
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
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
Presenter: Nicholas Miller
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Nicholas Miller
Expressive Voting and the Median Voter Theory: An Agent Based Approach
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
Presenter: Jerry Ellig
Discussant: Susan Dudley
Institutions & Incentives for Regulatory Reform
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
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
Presenter: Patrick O'Reilly
Discussant: Tracy Snoddon
Prospects for Integrated Carbon Taxes in Canada: Lessons from Federal-Provincial Tax Coordination
Presenter: Tracy Snoddon
Discussant: Sebastian Miller
Understanding environmental conflicts in large projects
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
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
Presenter: Friedrich Schneider
Co-Author(s): Arusha Cooray
Discussant: Dennis Coates
Social trust, institutional and political constraints on the executive, and deregulation of markets
Presenter: Hans Pitlik
Co-Author(s): Markus Leibrecht
Discussant: Christopher Koopman
Plenary Session 2: Carl Schramm, Ewing Marion Kaufmann Foundation: "Entrepreneurial Justice and Public Choice"
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
Roberta Herzberg
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
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
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
Presenter: Richard Jankowski
Discussant: Todd Sandler
Visigothic Retinues: Roving Bandits that Succeeded Rome
Presenter: Andrew Young
Discussant: Keith Dougherty
International Security, Insurance, and Protection: Negative Spillovers within Alliances
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
Presenter: Monika Koeppl-Turyna
Discussant: Marta Curto-Grau
Demographic Structure and the Political Economy of Immigrant Public Benefit Access
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?
Presenter: SHIGEKI KUNIEDA
Discussant: Benjamin Powell
Short-run and Long-run Fiscal Effects of Supermajority Rule to Raise Taxes: Strategic Responses of State Legislators
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
Awards Luncheon
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
Edward Lopez
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?
Presenter: Art Carden
Co-Author(s): Charles Courtemanche , Murugi Ndirangu , Zhou Xilin
Discussant: Anna Chorniy
Do Health Insurance Mandates Discourage Employment?
Presenter: James Bailey
Co-Author(s): Douglas Webber
Discussant: Art Carden
Employer-Provided Health Insurance and Job Mobility
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
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”
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
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
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?
Presenter: Nick Cowen
Co-Author(s): Aris Trantidis
Discussant: Alex Gill
Information and Evolution in Economics: Stiglitz versus Hayek
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
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
Presenter: Meg Patrick Tuszynski
Discussant: Tetsuro Okazaki
Valence and Media Influence on Elections
Presenter: Tetsuro Okazaki
Discussant: Alexander Karpov
Patient mobility, health care quality, welfare and regulation
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
Presenter: Stephen Miller
Co-Author(s): Zachary Gochenour
Discussant: Stephen Coate
Do Majority Governments Lead to Lower Fiscal Deficits? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
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
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
Plenary Session 3: Charlie Plott, California Institute of Technology and Society Past President, "Committee Karate: Machiavilli Joins Public Choice?"
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
Roberta Herzberg