7:20pm – 11:59pm

Dinner on Own

7:00am – 8:30am

Room: Crystal Atrium

Continental Breakfast

7:00am – 5:00pm

Room: Crystal Atrium

Exhibitors Hall

Room: Crystal Atrium

Conference Registration Desk

8:00am – 9:30am

Room: Chart Room

Political Theory

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

Markets and Fairness: Folk Intuitions about Economic Justice in the United States
Presenter: Daniela Goya-Tocchetto
Co-Author(s): Brock, Schylar; Wright, Jen
Discussant: Piotr Swistak

The Tolerance of the Intolerant
Presenter: Colin Jennings
Discussant: Brian Kogelmann

Minimal Liberalism and the Nature of Rights
Presenter: Brian Kogelmann
Discussant: Colin Jennings

Democracy, Hierarchy and Modern Institutions
Presenter: Piotr Swistak
Co-Author(s): Bendor, Jonathan
Discussant: Daniela Goya-Tocchetto

Room: Captains Boardroom

Economic Institutions

Session Organizer: President-Elect Session

Poor Institutions as a Comparative Advantage
Presenter: Cort Rodet
Discussant: Ash Navabi

Free Trade in Things, But Not Ideas: The Rise of Intellectual Property Protectionism in Free Trade Agreements
Presenter: Ash Navabi
Co-Author(s): Goodman, Nathan.
Discussant: Cort Rodet

Young Startup Firm Exports and Productive Efficiency
Presenter: Florence Neymotin
Co-Author(s): Baek, H. Young

Rent-seeking and the Logic of the California Water Game
Presenter: James Caton
Co-Author(s): Richard Wagner
Discussant: Florence Neymotin

Room: Commodore Room

Economic Freedom and Size of Government

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

Post-Socialist Constitutions: The De Jure – De Facto Gap, Its Effects and Determinants
Presenter: Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska
Discussant: Daniel Green

Economic Freedom and Quality of Life: Global Evidence and Comparisons
Presenter: Al Kamienski
Discussant: Arthur Nelson

Political transitions and growth of government in emerging democracies
Presenter: Dekuwmini (Dee) Mornah
Discussant: Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska

On Economic and Political Freedom: A Vector Autoregression Approach
Presenter: Arthur Nelson
Co-Author(s): Montesinos, Hugo
Discussant: Al Kamienski

Room: Chairmans Boardroom

Federalism I

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

Does Fiscal Decentralization Affect Infrastructure Quality?: An Examination of U.S. States
Presenter: Monica Escaleras
Co-Author(s): Calcagno, Peter
Discussant: Yukun Sun

Spatial Corporate Tax Competition among County Level Governments
Presenter: Yukun Sun
Co-Author(s): Ren, Chaoran
Discussant: Monica Escaleras

Majority Voting and Endogenous Timing in Tax Competition
Presenter: Taiki Susa
Co-Author(s): Ogawa, Hikaru
Discussant: Zhilong Ge

Room: Salon 1

Fiscal Policy and Economic Viability

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

New methods for testing the sustainability of the government debt
Presenter: Kazuki Hiraga
Discussant: Markus Reischmann

Test of Fiscal Sustainabity For Some EU Member States: Case of Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain (PIGS)
Presenter: HAKKI ODABAS
Co-Author(s): Veli Yilanci
Discussant: Kazuki Hiraga

Expert opinions on the Grexit
Presenter: Markus Reischmann
Co-Author(s): Potrafke, Niklas
Discussant: Richard Salsman

The Paradox of Public Profligacy
Presenter: Richard Salsman
Discussant: HAKKI ODABAS

Room: Salon 2

Structure, Scope and Growth of Government I

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

Performance Differences in Public Sector
Presenter: Maria Droganova
Discussant: Jan Schnellenbach

The Organization of Central Banks
Presenter: Volker Nitsch
Co-Author(s): Weidner, Jan
Discussant: Andrew Young

A Constitutional Economics Perspective on Soft Paternalism
Presenter: Jan Schnellenbach
Discussant: Maria Droganova

Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size of Government? A Spatial Approach
Presenter: Andrew Young
Co-Author(s): Maria Y. Tackett
Discussant: Volker Nitsch

Room: Salon 3

Coalitions and Policymaking in Parliamentary Democracies

Session Chair: Georg Vanberg
Session Organizer: Georg Vanberg

Appointing ministers in multiparty cabinets: a balancing act between intraparty and inter-party competition
Presenter: Despina Alexiadou
Discussant: Thomas Koenig

Competitive Agenda Setting in Parliamentary Democracies
Presenter: Thomas Koenig
Co-Author(s): Nick Lin Katsunori Seki
Discussant: David Fortunato

Coalition Agenda-Setting
Presenter: David Fortunato
Co-Author(s): Mariyana Angelova
Discussant: Georg Vanberg

Government Responsiveness, Legislative Institutions, and Unemployment Policy in Parliamentary Democracies
Presenter: Georg Vanberg
Co-Author(s): Lanny Martin
Discussant: Despina Alexiadou

Room: Tasting Room

The Law and Economics of Marriage

Session Chair: Pavel Kuchař
Session Organizer: Joshua Hall

The Birth of Surrogate Motherhood Law: An Economic Analysis of Institutional Reform
Presenter: Pavel Kuchař
Discussant: Ho-Po Crystal Wong

Credible Commitments and Marriage: When the Homemaker Gets Her Share at Divorce
Presenter: Ho-Po Crystal Wong
Discussant: Paola Suarez

Child Brides
Presenter: Paola Suarez
Co-Author(s): Peter Leeson
Discussant: Pavel Kuchař

Marital Regulation, Avoidance, and Equality: Who Still Gives "The Best Years of My Life"?
Presenter: Antony Dnes
Discussant: Pavel Kuchař

Room: Salon 4

Public Goods I

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

Public Health and Private Incentives: Federal Malaria Prevention in the United States, 1910-1950
Presenter: Trey Carson
Discussant: Biplab Datta

Efficiency of Government Expenditure on Health Care of Asian Countries
Presenter: Zhenyu Cui
Co-Author(s): Akai, Nobuo
Discussant: Maria Tackett

Is there a school finance channel? Effects of ambient air pollution on K-12 education in USA
Presenter: Biplab Datta
Discussant: Zhenyu Cui

Nonpublic Competition and Public School Performance: Evidence from West Virginia
Presenter: Maria Tackett
Co-Author(s): Cebula, Richard;Hall, Joshua
Discussant: Trey Carson

9:30am – 10:00am

Room: Crystal Atrium

Coffee Break

10:00am – 11:20am

Room: Crystal Ballroom

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

11:20am – 1:30pm

Room: Lobby Restaurant A

Executive Committee Luncheon

11:20am – 1:00pm

Lunch on Own

1:00pm – 2:30pm

Room: Chart Room

Bureaucracies

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

Talking about not talking: Deming and New Institutional Economics applied to interorganizational cooperation
Presenter: Arthur Denzau
Co-Author(s): Minassians, Hendrik P.; Roy, Ravi K.
Discussant: Kritee Gujral

Estimating Leakage due to Maladministration in India’s Food Security Program: Case Study for the State of Karnataka, 2010
Presenter: Kritee Gujral
Co-Author(s): Gujral, Kritee; Balasubramaniam, R.; Karpur, Arun
Discussant: Arthur Denzau

The Study of Port Governance System on Port : Comparison Analysis Between America and Japan
Presenter: Toshihiro Watanabe
Discussant: Arthur Denzau

Room: Captains Boardroom

Legal Applications

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

Judicial errors, crime deterrence and everything in between: evidence from U.S. federal courts
Presenter: Roee Sarel
Discussant: Darwyyn Deyo

A public choice analysis of the general duty of good faith in contractual performance: on a recent decision by the Supreme Court of Canada
Presenter: daniele bertolini
Discussant: Abraham Aldama Navarrete

Justice for Some: How Does Inequality Undermine the Rule of Law?
Presenter: Abraham Aldama Navarrete
Discussant: daniele bertolini

The Effect of Judicial Market Planning on Labor Market Distribution and the Right to Contract
Presenter: Darwyyn Deyo
Discussant: Roee Sarel

Room: Commodore Room

Political Economy Models

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

The Venetian Investor-Dominated Democracy and the Colleganza Maritime Partnership
Presenter: Ronald Batchelder
Discussant: Marina Riem

Comparing Investment Patterns of Foreigners and Locals
Presenter: Seungjun Kim
Discussant: Daniel Morales

Revisiting the Latin American growth puzzle: new evidence
Presenter: Daniel Morales
Co-Author(s): Faria, Hugo; Montesinos, Hugo
Discussant: Seungjun Kim

Corporate investment decisions under political uncertainty
Presenter: Marina Riem
Discussant: Ronald Batchelder

Room: Chairmans Boardroom

Historical Perspectives

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

Fragmentation of an Empire: The Political Economy of Spain and its Colonies in the Late Bourbon Period
Presenter: Fernando Arteaga
Discussant: Zachary Gochenour

Punitive Consequences of Legal Origins
Presenter: Daniel D'Amico
Co-Author(s): Claudia Williamson
Discussant: Roland Vaubel

Putting a lid on the melting pot: American immigration policy 1875-1924
Presenter: Zachary Gochenour
Discussant: Fernando Arteaga

The Making of State Religion: Public Choice Theory and Historical Evidence
Presenter: Roland Vaubel
Discussant: Daniel D'Amico

Room: Tasting Room

Game Theory

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

Individual Welfare and the Group Size Paradox
Presenter: Paul Pecorino
Discussant: Steven Slutsky

Optimal income taxation with no government commitment
Presenter: Steven Slutsky
Co-Author(s): Hamilton,Jonathan
Discussant: Stefano Carattini

Green taxes in a post-Paris world: are millions of nays inevitable?
Presenter: Stefano Carattini
Co-Author(s): Baranzini, Andrea; Thalmann, Philippe; Varone, Frédéric; Vöhringer, Frédéric
Discussant: Paul Pecorino

Room: Crystal Salon 1

Monetary Policy

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

Solving Milton Friedman’s Conundrum on Price Stability - The Impact of Reserve Requirements Deregulation
Presenter: Kai Jäger
Discussant: Pierre Siklos

Sixty Years of FOMC Minutes: Quantifying and Estimating Their Macroeconomic Impact
Presenter: Pierre Siklos
Discussant: Bonnie Wilson

To Target or Not to Target? Who Decides?
Presenter: Bonnie Wilson
Co-Author(s): Heckelman, Jac C.
Discussant: Kai Jäger

Room: Crystal Salon 2

Regulatory Cases and Economic Behavior

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

Does country level social trust predict the size of the sharing economy?
Presenter: Andreas Bergh
Co-Author(s): Alexander Funcke
Discussant: Patrick O'Reilly

Drunk Driving, Traffic Accidents, and Uber
Presenter: Sean Mulholland
Co-Author(s): Angela K. Dills
Discussant: Caleb Watney

Backfire Effect Dynamics in Recycling Subsidies for Durable Goods
Presenter: Patrick O'Reilly
Co-Author(s): Kaffine, Daniel
Discussant: Andreas Bergh

Regulation, Regime Uncertainty, and Daily Fantasy Sports
Presenter: Caleb Watney
Co-Author(s): Watney, Caleb; Koopman, Chris; Pagels, Jim
Discussant: Sean Mulholland

Room: Mariners

Rent Seeking I

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

Duality and Optimal Political Survival
Presenter: Kelly Nelson
Co-Author(s): Rudbeck, Jens
Discussant: Zhe Yang

Two-bidder all-pay auctions with interdependent valuations, including the highly competitive case
Presenter: Lucas Rentschler
Co-Author(s): Turocy, Theodore
Discussant: Kelly Nelson

Risk Attitudes and Heterogeneity in Simultaneous and Sequential Contests
Presenter: Zhe Yang
Co-Author(s): Jindapon, Paan.
Discussant: Lucas Rentschler

Room: Crystal Salon 3

Handbook of Social Choice and Voting: Related Papers

Session Chair: Nicholas Miller
Session Organizer: Nicholas Miller

Endogenous Competence and a Limit to the Condorcet Jury Theorem
Presenter: Bryan McCannon
Co-Author(s): Paul Walker
Discussant: Nicolaus Tideman

Further Tests of a Spatial Model of Distributions of Voters' Rankings of Candidates
Presenter: Nicolaus Tideman
Co-Author(s): Thorsten Matje
Discussant: Itai Sened

Room: Crystal Salon 4

Taxing More Choice I

Session Chair: Adam Hoffer
Session Organizer: Adam Hoffer

The Language of Taxation: Ideology Masquerading as Science
Presenter: Richard Wagner
Discussant: Adam Hoffer

Stadium Taxes
Presenter: Dennis Coates
Co-Author(s): Craig Depken
Discussant: Richard Wagner

Tax Reform as a Discovery Process
Presenter: Dwight Lee
Co-Author(s): J.R. Clark
Discussant: Dennis Coates

Earmarking and Government Growth
Presenter: Adam Hoffer
Co-Author(s): George Crowley
Discussant: Dwight Lee

2:30pm – 2:40pm

Break

2:40pm – 4:10pm

Room: Commodore Room

Voting and Elections V

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

Myopic Voters?: An Empirical Defense of Democratic Voting
Presenter: Richard Jankowski
Discussant: Friedrich Schneider

Ethical voting in multicandidate elections
Presenter: Benjamin Ogden
Co-Author(s): Bouton, Laurent
Discussant: Mahendra Prasad

On the Normative Uniqueness of Majority Rule: Generalizing May's Theorem to Infinitely Many Voting Systems
Presenter: Mahendra Prasad
Discussant: Benjamin Ogden

The Popularity Function: A Spurious Regression? The Case of Austria
Presenter: Friedrich Schneider
Co-Author(s): Neck, Reinhard
Discussant: Richard Jankowski

Room: Tasting Room

Public Policy Provision

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

Death, children and pensions
Presenter: Vincenzo Alfano
Co-Author(s): Capasso Salvatore
Discussant: Michelle Lofton

The Impact of Citizen Initiatives and Public Government Distrust on Local Public Pensions
Presenter: Michelle Lofton
Co-Author(s): Hou, Yilin; Thomas, Jason
Discussant: Junichi Nagamine

Renewal Investment in Water Infrastructure and Sustainability of Water Utility: A Case Study in Japan
Presenter: Junichi Nagamine
Discussant: Michelle Lofton

Room: Mariners

Political Institutions II

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

FDI and Sanctions: Being Good Guys or Good Investors?
Presenter: Irina Mirkina
Discussant: Raymond March

Skin In the Game: Comparing The Private and Public Regulation of Isotrentinoin
Presenter: Raymond March
Discussant: Lukas Schötz

Mayor Games in Bavaria: Self Selection of Local Politicians is not influenced by constitutionally defined remuneration increases! Quasi-experimental evidence from Germany.
Presenter: Lukas Schötz
Discussant: Irina Mirkina

Room: Crystal Salon 3

Regulation and Entrepreneurship II

Session Chair: Joshua Hall
Session Organizer: Joshua Hall

Is it Scotchy Scotch Scotch: The Political Economy of Japanese Entry to the Scotch Whiskey Industry
Presenter: Michelle Vachris
Co-Author(s): Kyle Vachris
Discussant: Shree Pokharel

Barber Licensure and the Supply of Barber Shops: Evidence from US States
Presenter: Shree Pokharel
Co-Author(s): Joshua Hall
Discussant: Joshua Hall

Regulation and Entrepreneurial Intention
Presenter: Sriparna Ghosh
Co-Author(s): Joshua Hall
Discussant: Michelle Vachris

Entrepreneurship, Corruption, and Economic Freedom
Presenter: Justin Isaacs
Co-Author(s): Justin Isaacs
Discussant: Sriparna Ghosh

Room: Crystal Salon 1

Macro Economic Freedom Studies

Session Chair: Daniel Bennett
Session Organizer: Daniel Bennett

Growth, Inequality and Economic Freedom: Evidence from the US States
Presenter: Christian Bjørnskov
Discussant: Daniel Bennett

Poor Institutions as a Comparative Advantage
Presenter: Cort Rodet
Discussant: Christian Bjørnskov

On the Hypotheses of Lipset and Friedman. A Logit Approach
Presenter: Hugo Moises Montesinos-Yufa
Co-Author(s): Daniel L. Bennett
Discussant: Cort Rodet

Economic Freedom & Happiness Inequality: Friends or Foes?
Presenter: Daniel Bennett
Co-Author(s): Boris Nikolaev
Discussant: Hugo Moises Montesinos-Yufa

Room: Crystal Salon 4

Empirical State and Local Political Economy

Session Chair: Dean Stansel
Session Organizer: Dean Stansel

Alabama at the Crossroads: An Economic Guide to a Fiscally Sustainable Future
Presenter: John Dove
Co-Author(s): Daniel J. Smith
Discussant: Adam Millsap

Local Governments and MSA Economic Freedom: A Test of the Leviathan Hypothesis
Presenter: Adam Millsap
Co-Author(s): Adam Millsap, Bradley Hobbs
Discussant: Jeremy Jackson

Economic Freedom of North America at State Borders
Presenter: Ryan Murphy
Discussant: John Dove

Room: Chairmans Boardroom

Taxing More Choice II

Session Chair: Todd Nesbit
Session Organizer: Adam Hoffer

Taxation as Nudge: The Failure of Anti-Obesity Paternalism
Presenter: Michael Marlow
Co-Author(s): Sherzod Abdukadirov
Discussant: Todd Nesbit

Tax Incentives: Market vs. Business Friendly
Presenter: Frank Hefner
Co-Author(s): Peter Calcagno
Discussant: Michael Marlow

Persecuting Plastic Bags
Presenter: Frank Stephenson
Discussant: Frank Hefner

Excise taxation, quality substitution, and rent seeking
Presenter: Todd Nesbit
Discussant: Frank Stephenson

Room: Crystal Salon 2

The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Prize: Finalists' Presentations

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

Prosperity-enhancing Institutions: Towards a comprehensive composite Index
Presenter: Helena Helfer
Discussant: Joshua Hall

Political budget cycles: Manipulation of leaders or bias from research?
Presenter: Pierre Mandon
Co-Author(s): Cazals, Antoine.
Discussant: Michael Munger

Endowment Effects in Evolutionary Game Theory: Enhancing Property Rights
Presenter: Eric Hammer
Discussant: Georg Vanberg

4:10pm – 4:20pm

Break

4:20pm – 5:50pm

Room: Chairmans Boardroom

Constitutions

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

Democratic Societies are Trusting Societies
Presenter: Andrew Heritage
Discussant: Robert Warren Anderson

Determinants and Effects of Indian Reservation Constitutions
Presenter: Robert Warren Anderson
Discussant: Andrew Heritage

Does rational choice politics need ethics?
Presenter: Roger Congleton
Discussant: Stephan Michel

Room: Captains Boardroom

Gender and Culture

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

Does religion make you sick? Evidence that a secular background promotes health
Presenter: Niclas Berggren
Co-Author(s): Ljunge, Martin
Discussant: Dagobert Brito

What aspects of society affect the quality of life of a minority? Global evidence from the new Gay Happiness Index
Presenter: Therese Nilsson
Co-Author(s): Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian
Discussant: Mark Crain

TURING ROBOTS: INCOME INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL MOBILITY
Presenter: Dagobert Brito
Co-Author(s): Robert F. Curl
Discussant: Niclas Berggren

Regulatory Impediments to Gender Equality and Global Economic Performance
Presenter: Mark Crain
Co-Author(s): Crain, Nicole
Discussant: Therese Nilsson

Room: Chart Room

Political Cycles

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

Elections Cycles and Exchange Rates in Brazil
Presenter: Fabiano Barros
Co-Author(s): Covre, Julyana
Discussant: Darren Grant

Do Robocalls Increase Voter Turnout: Evidence from Repeat Calling
Presenter: Thomas Stratmann
Co-Author(s): Daniel Kling
Discussant: Fabiano Barros

The Ballot Order Effect Is Huge: Evidence from Texas
Presenter: Darren Grant
Discussant: Thomas Stratmann

Room: Commodore Room

Rent Seeking II

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

The Returns to Lobbying: Evidence from Local Governments in the "Age of Earmarks"
Presenter: Steven Gordon
Discussant: Brian Richter

Rent Seeking Institutions
Presenter: Randall Holcombe
Discussant: Andrea Walters

Disguised Contributions from Corporations to Political Campaigns
Presenter: Brian Richter
Co-Author(s): Fremeth, Adam; Richter, Brian
Discussant: Steven Gordon

Unintended Consequences and Rent Seeking on the Reservation; How Expansion of the Dawes Act Inhibited Native American Development
Presenter: Andrea Walters
Co-Author(s): Vercoe, Moana
Discussant: Randall Holcombe

Room: Crystal Salon 1

Political Institutions

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

The impact of basic performance feedback on the gender tournament gap
Presenter: Sabrina Jeworrek
Discussant: JIABIN WU

The Political economy of wage and price controls: Evidence from the Nixon Tapes
Presenter: Burton Abrams
Co-Author(s): Butkiewicz, James
Discussant: Nathanael Snow

Homo-Politicus: Evolution of Behavior under Political Institutions
Presenter: JIABIN WU
Discussant: Sabrina Jeworrek

Electoral Chaos Within the Evangelical Coalition: An Example of Public Choice Politlcal Theology
Presenter: Nathanael Snow
Discussant: Burton Abrams

Room: Crystal Salon 2

Collective Action

Session Chair: Marek Kaminski
Session Organizer: Keith Dougherty

Collective Action in an Asymmetric World
Presenter: Cuicui Chen
Co-Author(s): Richard Zeckhauser
Discussant: Carole Uhlaner

Coalitional Stability: Apportioning the Legislature at the U.S. Constitutional Convention
Presenter: Keith Dougherty
Co-Author(s): Gordon Ballingrud
Discussant: Cuicui Chen

Non-standard Game-theoretic Models of Collective Action
Presenter: Marek Kaminski
Discussant: Keith Dougherty

Relational Goods as Solutions to Collective Action
Presenter: Carole Uhlaner
Discussant: Marek Kaminski

Room: Crystal Salon 3

Financial Regulation

Session Chair: Massimiliano Neri
Session Organizer: Massimiliano Neri

Assessing the Systemic Importance of Asset Managers and Investment Funds
Presenter: Massimiliano Neri
Co-Author(s): Gustave Laurent

K for Underperformance: Agency problems, moral hazard and adverse selection under a compulsive investment regime in Argentina
Presenter: Stephanie Kartzmark
Co-Author(s): Ernesto Edwards
Discussant: Leonidas Zelmanovitz

Narrow Banking’ as an Institutional Improvement
Presenter: Leonidas Zelmanovitz
Discussant: Alexander Salter

Polycentric Banking and Financial Stability
Presenter: Alexander Salter
Co-Author(s): Vlad Tarko
Discussant: Massimiliano Neri

Room: Crystal Salon 4

The Causes and Consequences of Legal and Regulatory Complexity

Session Chair: Patrick McLaughlin
Session Organizer: Patrick McLaughlin

Regulatory Complexity as a Negative Externality
Presenter: Patrick McLaughlin
Co-Author(s): Stephen Jones
Discussant: Stephen Jones

The Incentives for and Consequences of Increasing Complexity of Laws and Regulations: A Case Study of Dodd-Frank
Presenter: Scott King
Co-Author(s): Patrick McLaughlin
Discussant: Scott King

Reading Between the Lines: Measuring Bureaucratic Drift
Presenter: Stephen Jones
Discussant: Richard Brown

Corporate Political Action and the Public Goods Problem: Franchise Systems as a Change in Context
Presenter: Richard Brown
Discussant: Patrick McLaughlin

Room: Tasting Room

Regulation, Subsidies and Entrepreneurship

Session Chair: Nils Karlson
Session Organizer: Peter Calcagno

The Sugar Rush from Innovation Subsidies - A Robust Political Economy Perspective
Presenter: Nils Karlson
Co-Author(s): Anders Gustafsson, Andreas Stephan, Alice Hallman
Discussant: Sara Sutherland

Firm Support Programs Towards Innovative small and Medium Enterprises: Do They Work?
Presenter: Sven-Olov Daunfeldt
Co-Author(s): Patrik Gustavsson-Tingvall
Discussant: Nils Karlson

Crisis, Ideology, and Interventionist Policy Ratchets
Presenter: Christian Bjørnskov
Co-Author(s): Martin Rode
Discussant: Sven-Olov Daunfeldt

Room: Mariners

Polycentricity and Political Economy

Session Chair: Richard Wagner
Session Organizer: Richard Wagner

Samaritan’s Dilemmas, Wealth Redistribution, and Polycentricity
Presenter: Richard Wagner
Co-Author(s): Meg Patrick Tuszynski
Discussant: David Hebert

“Limits of Polycentric Adjustment: the State as Jekyll and Hyde”
Presenter: Yong Yoon
Discussant: Akira YOKOYAMA

“Community, State and Polycentric Tasks”
Presenter: Akira YOKOYAMA
Discussant: Yong Yoon

“Politics as a Polycentric Order in Practice”
Presenter: David Hebert
Discussant: Meg Patrick Tuszynski