53rd Annual Meetings of the Public Choice Society

2016 Public Choice Society, March 10-12, Ft. Lauderdale Florida March 10-12, Hyatt Regency Pier 66, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Thursday, March 10, 2016

1:00pm – 7:00pm

Room: Crystal Atrium



5:30pm – 7:20pm

Room: Pier Top Room


7:20pm – 11:59pm

Friday, March 11, 2016

7:00am – 5:00pm

Room: Crystal Atrium

Room: Crystal Atrium


7:00am – 8:30am

Room: Crystal Atrium


8:00am – 9:30am

Room: Chart Room

Political Theory

Session Chair: Colin Jennings
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Captains Boardroom

Economic Institutions

Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Commodore Room

Economic Freedom and Size of Government

Session Chair: Daniel Green
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Chairmans Boardroom

Federalism I

Session Chair: Monica Escaleras
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Salon 1

Fiscal Policy and Economic Viability

Session Chair: Richard Salsman
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Salon 2

Structure, Scope and Growth of Government I

Session Chair: Jan Schnellenbach
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Salon 3

Coalitions and Policymaking in Parliamentary Democracies

Session Chair: Georg Vanberg
Session Organizer: Georg Vanberg

Room: Tasting Room

The Law and Economics of Marriage

Session Chair: Pavel Kuchař
Session Organizer: Joshua Hall

Room: Salon 4

Public Goods I

Session Chair: Trey Carson
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session


9:30am – 10:00am

Room: Crystal Atrium



11:20am – 1:00pm


11:20am – 1:30pm

Room: Lobby Restaurant A


1:00pm – 2:30pm

Room: Chart Room

Bureaucracies

Session Chair: Arthur Denzau
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Captains Boardroom

Legal Applications

Session Chair: Roee Sarel
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Commodore Room

Political Economy Models

Session Chair: Ronald Batchelder
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Chairmans Boardroom

Historical Perspectives

Session Chair: Daniel D'Amico
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Tasting Room

Game Theory

Session Chair: Steven Slutsky
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Crystal Salon 1

Monetary Policy

Session Chair: Pierre Siklos
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Crystal Salon 2

Regulatory Cases and Economic Behavior

Session Chair: Andreas Bergh
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Mariners

Rent Seeking I

Session Chair: Lucas Rentschler
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Crystal Salon 3

Handbook of Social Choice and Voting: Related Papers

Session Chair: Nicholas Miller
Session Organizer: Nicholas Miller

Room: Crystal Salon 4

Taxing More Choice I

Session Chair: Adam Hoffer
Session Organizer: Adam Hoffer


2:30pm – 2:40pm


2:40pm – 4:10pm

Room: Commodore Room

Voting and Elections V

Session Chair: Benjamin Ogden
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Tasting Room

Public Policy Provision

Session Chair: Michelle Lofton
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Mariners

Political Institutions II

Session Chair: Irina Mirkina
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Crystal Salon 3

Regulation and Entrepreneurship II

Session Chair: Joshua Hall
Session Organizer: Joshua Hall

Room: Crystal Salon 1

Macro Economic Freedom Studies

Session Chair: Daniel Bennett
Session Organizer: Daniel Bennett

Room: Crystal Salon 4

Empirical State and Local Political Economy

Session Chair: Dean Stansel
Session Organizer: Dean Stansel

Room: Chairmans Boardroom

Taxing More Choice II

Session Chair: Todd Nesbit
Session Organizer: Adam Hoffer

Room: Crystal Salon 2

The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Prize: Finalists' Presentations

Session Chair: Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session


4:10pm – 4:20pm


4:20pm – 5:50pm

Room: Chairmans Boardroom

Constitutions

Session Chair: Roger Congleton
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Captains Boardroom

Gender and Culture

Session Chair: Mark Crain
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Chart Room

Political Cycles

Session Chair: Fabiano Barros
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Commodore Room

Rent Seeking II

Session Chair: Randall Holcombe
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Crystal Salon 1

Political Institutions

Session Chair: Burton Abrams
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Crystal Salon 2

Collective Action

Session Chair: Marek Kaminski
Session Organizer: Keith Dougherty

Room: Crystal Salon 3

Financial Regulation

Session Chair: Massimiliano Neri
Session Organizer: Massimiliano Neri

Room: Crystal Salon 4

The Causes and Consequences of Legal and Regulatory Complexity

Session Chair: Patrick McLaughlin
Session Organizer: Patrick McLaughlin

Room: Tasting Room

Regulation, Subsidies and Entrepreneurship

Session Chair: Nils Karlson
Session Organizer: Peter Calcagno

Room: Mariners

Polycentricity and Political Economy

Session Chair: Richard Wagner
Session Organizer: Richard Wagner

Saturday, March 12, 2016

7:00am – 8:30am


7:00am – 5:00pm

Room: Crystal Atrium

Room: Crystal Atrium


8:00am – 9:30am

Room: Chart Room

Public Goods III

Session Chair: Jennifer Dirmeyer
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Captains Boardroom

Voting and Elections III

Session Chair: Steven Brams
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Commodore Room

Federalism III

Session Chair: Nathan Ashby
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Chairmans Boardroom

Political Economy

Session Chair: Jason Saving
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Crystal Salon 1

Political Representation

Session Chair: Stephan Gohmann
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Crystal Salon 2

Fiscal Policy III

Session Chair: Georgeanne Artz
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Crystal Salon 3

Rent Seeking III

Session Chair: George Clarke
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Tasting Room

Institutional Analysis

Session Chair: Christopher Boudreaux
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Crystal Salon 4

Regulation and Entrepreneurship III

Session Chair: Bryan McCannon
Session Organizer: Joshua Hall


9:30am – 10:00am

Room: Panorama Ballroom



11:30am – 1:00pm

Room: Commodore Room

Conflict

Session Chair: Ahmed Skali
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Chairmans Boardroom

Incentives

Session Chair: Mario Villarreal-Diaz
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Tasting Room

Health Care

Session Chair: David Chandler Thomas
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Crystal Salon 1

Comparative Applications

Session Chair: Aziz Berdiev
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Crystal Salon 2

Issues of Technology and Information

Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Crystal Salon 3

Growth, Development and Land Use

Session Chair: William Fischel
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Crystal Salon 4

Local Institutions

Session Chair: Gunther Markwardt
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Chart Room

Political Thought

Session Chair: Michael Clark
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Captains Boardroom

Social Norms and Behavior

Session Chair: Alexander Funcke
Session Organizer: Alexander Funcke


1:00pm – 2:40pm

Room: Panorama Ballroom


2:40pm – 4:10pm

Room: Commodore Room

Public Goods and Taxation

Session Chair: Edward Hoang
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Chairmans Boardroom

Free Riding and the Provision of Public Goods

Session Chair: Henrik Jordahl
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Crystal Salon 1

Campaigns

Session Chair: Deborah Fletcher
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Crystal Salon 2

Fiscal Policy IV

Session Chair: John Golob
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Crystal Salon 3

Rent seeking IV

Session Chair: Richard Brown
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Crystal Salon 4

Comparative Political Economy

Session Chair: Anna Faria
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Chart Room

Public Finance and Public Policy

Session Chair: Peter Calcagno
Session Organizer: Peter Calcagno

Room: Mariners

Trust

Session Chair: Christian Bjørnskov
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Captains Boardroom

Individual Level Issues

Session Chair: Dennis Coates
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session


4:10pm – 4:20pm


4:20pm – 5:50pm

Room: Commodore Room

Explaining Election Cycles

Session Chair: Bodo Knoll
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Captains Boardroom

Federalism in International Arenas

Session Chair: Luigi Moretti
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Captains Boardroom

Social Policy Provision

Session Chair: Bradley Hobbs
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Chairmans Boardroom

Structure, Scope and Growth of Government II

Session Chair: Vlad Tarko
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Crystal Salon 1

Risk and Policymaking

Session Chair: Nakul Kumar
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Chart Room

Market Failures

Session Chair: Javier Portillo
Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Room: Tasting Room

Social Interactions and Political Legitimacy

Session Chair: Peter Miller
Session Organizer: Peter Miller

Room: Crystal Salon 2

Politics and Knowledge (Political Processes in the Context of the Assembly of Knowledge)

Session Chair: Pavel Kuchař
Session Organizer: Pavel Kuchař

Room: Crystal Salon 3

Governance and Public Choice: Ostromian Themes and Interpretations

Session Chair: Lenore Ealy
Session Organizer: Paul Dragos Aligica

Room: Crystal Salon 4

Experimental Public Choice

Session Chair: Keith Dougherty
Session Organizer: Keith Dougherty



7:30pm – 11:59pm