
2016 Public Choice Society, March 10-12, Ft. Lauderdale Florida March 10-12, Hyatt Regency Pier 66, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
- Thursday, March 10
- 1:00pm – 7:00pm
- 4:00pm – 5:20pm *
- 5:30pm – 7:20pm
- 7:20pm – 11:59pm
- Friday, March 11
- 7:00am – 5:00pm *
- 7:00am – 8:30am
- 8:00am – 9:30am *
- 9:30am – 10:00am
- 10:00am – 11:20am
- 11:20am – 1:00pm
- 11:20am – 1:30pm
- 1:00pm – 2:30pm *
- 2:30pm – 2:40pm
- 2:40pm – 4:10pm *
- 4:10pm – 4:20pm
- 4:20pm – 5:50pm *
- Saturday, March 12
- 7:00am – 8:30am
- 7:00am – 5:00pm *
- 8:00am – 9:30am *
- 9:30am – 10:00am
- 10:00am – 11:20am
- 11:30am – 1:00pm *
- 1:00pm – 2:40pm
- 2:40pm – 4:10pm *
- 4:10pm – 4:20pm
- 4:20pm – 5:50pm *
- 6:00pm – 7:30pm
- 7:30pm – 11:59pm
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Plenary Session 1: Vernon L. Smith, Chapman University and Society Past President, "On Proving Your Beliefs to be False". Sponsored by Florida Atlantic University College of Business and Public Choice Society
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Crystal Ballroom
Friday, March 11, 2016
Room: Crystal Atrium
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
Plenary Session 2: Robert D. Cooter, University of California Berkeley, "Why Economic Analysis Has So Little Influence on Constitutional Interpretation by Courts, And What to Do About It" Sponsored by the William E. Simon Chair at Lafayette College
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
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
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
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
Room: Crystal Atrium
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
Plenary Session 3: David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart, "'Almost Wholly Negative': The Ford Foundation's Appraisal of the Virginia School" Sponsored by the Center for Study of Public Choice
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
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
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
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