2017 Public Choice Society Annual Meetings, March 2-4, New Orleans Louisiana March 2-4, Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans Louisiana
- Thursday, March 2
- 1:00pm – 7:00pm
- 3:00pm – 4:15pm
- 4:30pm – 6:00pm *
- 6:00pm – 7:30pm
- Friday, March 3
- 7:00am – 8:00am
- 7:00am – 5:00pm
- 8:00am – 9:30am *
- 9:30am – 10:00am
- 10:00am – 11:20am
- 11:20am – 12:50pm *
- 1:00pm – 2:30pm *
- 2:30pm – 2:40pm
- 2:40pm – 4:10pm *
- 4:10pm – 4:20pm
- 4:20pm – 5:50pm *
- 6:00pm – 11:59pm
- 6:00pm – 9:00pm
- Saturday, March 4
- 7:00am – 5:00pm
- 7:00am – 8:00am
- 8:00am – 9:30am *
- 9:30am – 10:00am
- 10:00am – 11:20am
- 11:20am – 11:30am
- 11:30am – 1:00pm *
- 1:00pm – 2:30pm
- 2:40pm – 4:10pm *
- 4:10pm – 4:20pm
- 4:20pm – 5:50pm *
- 6:00pm – 7:30pm
- 7:30pm – 11:59pm
- Sunday, March 5
- 8:30am – 12:00pm
Saturday, March 4, 2017
Plott’s Legacy: Papers by His Former Students
Session Chair:
Keith Dougherty
Session Organizer:
Keith Dougherty
Information Structure and Oil Field Unitization: Why Does Bargaining Fail?
Presenter: Alex Brown
Co-Author(s): Eckel, Catherine C.; Wiggins, Steven N.
Discussant: Brian Rogerss
A New Experimental Mechanism To Investigate Polarized Demands For Public Goods
Presenter: Mark Isaac
Co-Author(s): Norton, Douglas; Pevnitskaya, Svetlana
Discussant: Alex Brown
Why Do People Violate No-Trade Theorems? A Diagnostic Test
Presenter: Ryan Oprea
Co-Author(s): Jacopo Magnani
Discussant: Mark Isaac
Efficiency-based measures of inequality
Presenter: Brian Rogerss
Co-Author(s): Andonie, Costel; Kuzmics, Christoph
Discussant: Ryan Oprea
Room: Iberville Room
Formal Models of Policymaking
Session Chair:
Dennis Coates
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
A Capture Theory of Committees
Presenter: Huseyin Yildirim
Co-Author(s): Name-Correa, Alvaro J.
Discussant: anthony heyes
NGO Salience Games
Presenter: anthony heyes
Co-Author(s): Lyon, Thomas; Martin, Steve
Discussant: Benjamin Chen
Full Disclosure: A Model of OIRA Review
Presenter: Benjamin Chen
Discussant: Dennis Coates
Vote buying
Presenter: Dennis Coates
Co-Author(s): Frank Daumann, Alfred Wassermann
Discussant: Huseyin Yildirim
Room: Cabildo Room
State Policy
Session Chair:
Dodge Cahan
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
How would a free market for casinos work in a new casino state?
Presenter: Douglas Walker
Discussant: Dodge Cahan
Electoral cycles in government employment: Evidence from US gubernatorial elections
Presenter: Dodge Cahan
Discussant: Shree Pokharel
State Exit Exams and Graduation Rates: A Hierarchical Modelling Approach
Presenter: Shree Pokharel
Discussant: Pablo Garofalo
Federal Spending and the Fiscal Rules of US States
Presenter: Pablo Garofalo
Discussant: Douglas Walker
Room: Ursuline Room
Development
Session Chair:
Ribal Abi Raad
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Justice delayed, growth denied: evidence from a comparative perspective
Presenter: Alessandro Melcarne
Co-Author(s): Giovanni B. Ramello
Discussant: Tommy Krieger
Computing Machine Learning Indexes: A new Methodology to Unbundle the Role of Democratic Institutions for Economic Growth.
Presenter: Tommy Krieger
Co-Author(s): Gruendler, Klaus
Discussant: Alessandro Melcarne
Room: Pontalba Room
CPE
Session Chair:
Charles Delmotte
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Ecuador's 2008 Constitution: the political economy of securing an aspirational social contract
Presenter: Eric Alston
Discussant: Charles Delmotte
The Political Economics of Tax Exemptions: Tax Uniformity as a Constitutional Principle
Presenter: Charles Delmotte
Discussant: Vlad Tarko
The Devil's Fix: James M. Buchanan and the Pinochet Junta
Presenter: Vlad Tarko
Co-Author(s): Farrant, Andrew
Discussant: Eric Alston
Room: Beauregard Room
Polarization and Public Opinion
Session Chair:
Hans Pitlik
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Media Competition with Targeted Advertising: How Media Polarization Attenuates Political Polarization
Presenter: Benjamin Ogden
Co-Author(s): Gupta, Samarth
Discussant: Hans Pitlik
Is political polarization driven by economic crises?
Presenter: Hans Pitlik
Co-Author(s): Martin Rode
Discussant: Tetsuro Okazaki
Valence, Endoersement and Media Diversity
Presenter: Tetsuro Okazaki
Discussant: M. Garrett Roth
Sixty Years of Pandering? The Nature and Extent of "Social Desirability Bias" in Political Opinion
Presenter: M. Garrett Roth
Discussant: Benjamin Ogden
Room: Gallier Room
Collective Action and Cooperation
Session Chair:
Daniel Hall
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
R&D is not a Public Good: So Why Subsidize it?
Presenter: David Chandler Thomas
Co-Author(s): McClure, James;Thomas, David Chandler
Discussant: Junko Furukawa
Collective action mechanism of crowdsourcing: A revised Free Ride Paradise model
Presenter: Junko Furukawa
Discussant: Daniel Hall
Whither service clubs?
Presenter: Daniel Hall
Discussant: Sigve Tjøtta
It Pays to be Nice: The Strategic Benefits of a Predispostion to Cooperate
Presenter: Sigve Tjøtta
Co-Author(s): Serdarevic, Nina; Strømland, Eirik A.
Discussant: David Chandler Thomas
Room: Royal Salon A
Policymaking and the Bureaucracy
Session Chair:
Steven Craig
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Relationship between Congress and the NASA during the Space Race: Evidence from the Congressional-Dominance Model
Presenter: Leo Krasnozhon
Co-Author(s): William Maye
Discussant: Steven Craig
Can Bureaucrats Manipulate Policy Outcomes?
Presenter: Steven Craig
Co-Author(s): Hoang, Edward; Kohlhase, Janet
Discussant: Tobin McKearin
The effect on prices of deregulation in Texas' electricity market
Presenter: Tobin McKearin
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Patrick O'Reilly
A Network Comparison Of Competing Institutions For Managing Water Against Hydropower And Irrigation Demands
Presenter: Patrick O'Reilly
Discussant: Leo Krasnozhon
Plenary Session 3: William Riker, the Rochester School, and Public Choice
Session Chair:
Georg Vanberg
Distinguished Panelist: Keith T. Poole, Philip H. Alston Distinguished Professor, University of Georgia
Presenter: Keith Poole
Distinguished Panelist: Kenneth A. Shepsle, George Markham Professor of Government, Harvard University
Presenter: Kenneth Shepsle
Economics of Corruption
Session Chair:
Jamie Bologna Pavlik
Session Organizer:
Peter Calcagno
Does the Effect Corruption has on Income Inequality Depend on the Informal Sector?
Presenter: Jamie Bologna Pavlik
Co-Author(s): Sean Mulholland
Discussant: Jeff Milyo
Determinants of Corruption in State Legislatures
Presenter: Jeff Milyo
Co-Author(s): Delhommer, Scott
Discussant: Jamie Bologna Pavlik
Corruption and Destructive Entrepreneurship: How Corruption Affects the Allocation of Resources
Presenter: Christopher Boudreaux
Co-Author(s): Holcombe, Randall; Nikolaev, Boris
Discussant: Mavuto Kalulu
Fiscal Transparency and Economic Performance at County Level in Arkansas
Presenter: Mavuto Kalulu
Discussant: Christopher Boudreaux
Room: Iberville Room
Regressive Effects of Regulation
Session Chair:
Diana Thomas
Session Organizer:
Diana Thomas
Regulation and Poverty
Presenter: Patrick McLaughlin
Co-Author(s): Chambers, Dustin; Stanley, Laura
Discussant: Diana Thomas
Regressive Effects of Regulation: Regulation and Wages
Presenter: Diana Thomas
Co-Author(s): Anderson, Joe; Bailey, James
Discussant: Sean Mulholland
Stratification by regulation
Presenter: Sean Mulholland
Discussant: Patrick McLaughlin
The Regressive Effects of Environmental Regulation
Presenter: William Shughart
Co-Author(s): Jensen, Michael.
Discussant: James Bailey
The Value of Waivers from the Affordable Care Act
Presenter: James Bailey
Co-Author(s): Wingender, John
Discussant: William Shughart
Room: Orleans Room
Roundtable on Vincent Ostrom’s Meaning of Democracy and the Vulnerabilities of Democracies
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
Roberta Herzberg
Socialist Calculation and Public Economics in Vincent Ostrom's work on Self-Governing Democratic Society
Presenter: Peter Boettke
Civil Society and the Meaning of Democracy
Presenter: Lenore Ealy
Vincent Ostrom’s Research Program in Human Association:
Presenter: Richard Wagner
Freedom and Vincent Ostrom's Anthropology of Understanding and Action
Presenter: Steven Grosby
Room: Royal Salon A
Social Choice
Session Chair:
Ville Korpela
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Probability of Violating Arrow's Conditions
Presenter: Keith Dougherty
Co-Author(s): Heckelman, Jac
Discussant: Ville Korpela
Social Choice Theory: A Neglected Path to Possibility
Presenter: Ville Korpela
Discussant: Mahendra Prasad
Are Condorcet Methods the Wrong Arrovian Generalization of Majority Rule
Presenter: Mahendra Prasad
Discussant: Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard
Trump, Condorcet and Borda: Voting paradoxes in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries
Presenter: Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard
Discussant: Keith Dougherty
Room: Ursuline Room
Political Cycles
Session Chair:
Alejandro Corvalan
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Battleground States and Economic Growth
Presenter: Maria Tackett
Co-Author(s): Bologna Pavlik, Jamie
Discussant: Alejandro Corvalan
Indirect Political Budget Cycles: Evidence from Chilean Municipalities
Presenter: Alejandro Corvalan
Co-Author(s): Cox, Paulo; Osorio, Rodrigo.
Discussant: Dmitriy Vorobyev
Political Cycles and Elections in Russian Regions
Presenter: Dmitriy Vorobyev
Co-Author(s): Sidorkin, Oleg
Discussant: Naseem Faraz
Political Distortions in Public Credit: Evidence from the Universe of Loans in Pakistan
Presenter: Naseem Faraz
Co-Author(s): Rockmore, Marc
Discussant: Maria Tackett
Room: Gallier Room
Authoritarian Politics
Session Chair:
Adrian Lucardi
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Optimal Tyranny
Presenter: Ash Navabi
Discussant: Linan Peng
Chinese Economic Reform: A Peculiar Case of Mixed Ecology of Enterprises
Presenter: Linan Peng
Discussant: Patrick Testa
Public education, political participation, and propaganda
Presenter: Patrick Testa
Discussant: Ash Navabi
Room: Beauregard Room
Congress
Session Chair:
Ulrich Matter
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The impact of individual farmer and agricultural political action committee campaign donations on farm bill votes
Presenter: Scott Callahan
Discussant: Cesare Buiatti
Legislative Tenure and the Geographic Distribution of Federal Outlays
Presenter: Cesare Buiatti
Discussant: Ulrich Matter
Uncovering Vote Trading Through Networks and Computation
Presenter: Ulrich Matter
Co-Author(s): Guerrero, Omar A.
Discussant: Scott Callahan
Room: Pontalba Room
PPE Panel
Session Chair:
Georg Vanberg
Session Organizer:
Cathleen Johnson
Public Entrepreneurship and Collective Action
Presenter: Ion Sterpan
Co-Author(s): Aligica, Dragos Paul and Sterpan, Ion
Creativity in a theory of entrepreneurship
Presenter: James Caton
Discussant: Helena Helfer
Reconciling Institutional Change and Institutional Stability
Presenter: Helena Helfer
Discussant: Ion Sterpan
Room: Cabildo Room
Plott Experiments 2
Session Chair:
Gregory DeAngelo
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Effects of Income Mobility and Tax Persistence on Income Redistribution and Inequality
Presenter: Marina Agranov
Co-Author(s): Palfrey, Thomas
Discussant: Gregory DeAngelo
Intergroup Inequality and Voting: An Experimental Study
Presenter: Gregory DeAngelo
Co-Author(s): Dubois, Dimitri; McCannon, Bryan; Romaniuc, Rustam
Discussant: Charles Holt
The welfare costs of price controls with rent seeking
Presenter: Charles Holt
Co-Author(s): Finley, Grace; Snow, Emily
Discussant: Reuben Kline
Differentiated Responsibilities and Prosocial Behavior in Climate Change Mitigation: Behavioral Evidence from the United States and China
Presenter: Reuben Kline
Co-Author(s): Nicholas Seltzer; Evgeniya Lukinova, Autumn Bynum
Discussant: Marina Agranov
Awards Luncheon
Thirty Years since Jim Buchanan's Nobel
Presenter: Peter Boettke
The 1986 Nobel Prize in Retrospect
Presenter: Georg Vanberg
In Memoriam: Robert D. Tollison (1942-2016)
Presenter: Edward Lopez
Institutions
Session Chair:
Jayme Lemke
Session Organizer:
Peter Calcagno
The Progressive Era Regulation of Women’s Labor: A Case Study in Institutional Entrepreneurship
Presenter: Jayme Lemke
Discussant: Rosolino Candela
The Political Economy of Italian Unification in Sicily: Insecurity of Property Rights and the Role of Land Reform
Presenter: Rosolino Candela
Discussant: Jayme Lemke
Privacy Law as Price Control
Presenter: Caleb Fuller
Discussant: Art Carden
More and Better: Resources Defined Through Property and Exchange
Presenter: Art Carden
Discussant: Caleb Fuller
Room: Iberville Room
Sportometrics in Honor of Robert D. Tollison
Session Chair:
Raymond Sauer
Session Organizer:
Raymond Sauer
Monitoring and Bureaucratic Discretion: Evidence from MLB Umpires
Presenter: John Bradbury
Discussant: Dennis Coates
Reflections on the Intersection of Sports Economics and Public Choice
Presenter: Dennis Coates
Discussant: Brian Goff
Revisiting Romer: Digging Deeper into What NFL Coaches Maximize
Presenter: Brian Goff
Discussant: Raymond Sauer
Sportometrics & NFL Coaching Decisions
Presenter: Raymond Sauer
Discussant: Carl Kitchens
Parallel Lives of Hard Hitting Criminals: Evidence from NCAA Football
Presenter: Carl Kitchens
Co-Author(s): Makofske, Matthew; Wang, Le
Discussant: John Bradbury
Room: Cathedral Room
Models of Voting and Legislative Decision Making
Session Chair:
Yasushi Asako
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Voter Decision Making Models: Predetermined or Primed?
Presenter: Libby Jenke
Discussant: Yasushi Asako
Condorcet Winner with Political Ambiguity
Presenter: Yasushi Asako
Discussant: Orestis Troumpounis
Electoral competition with primaries and quality asymmetries
Presenter: Orestis Troumpounis
Co-Author(s): Grofman, Bernard ; Xefteris, Dimitrios
Discussant: Libby Jenke
Room: Cabildo Room
Size of Government
Session Chair:
William B. Hankins
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Influence of Air Conditioning on the Growth of State Government Expenditures
Presenter: Natalia Kolesnikova
Co-Author(s): Garrett, Thomas A.
Discussant: William B. Hankins
Finally, Nebraska: A Synthetic Control Analysis of Legislative Structure
Presenter: William B. Hankins
Discussant: Paul Pecorino
The Effects of a Supermajority Voting Requirement on Government Spending
Presenter: Paul Pecorino
Discussant: Natalia Kolesnikova
Room: Ursuline Room
Institutions and Fiscal Outcomes
Session Chair:
Monika Koeppl-Turyna
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Public Debt Sustainability under Fiscal Federalism: An Analysis of Indian States
Presenter: Sandhya Garg
Discussant: Marcos Nazareth
Market-preserving federalism: does it really increase Brazil's economic performance?
Presenter: Marcos Nazareth
Co-Author(s): Gurgel, Ângelo Costa; Vieira, Wilson da Cruz
Discussant: Devin Stein
Burning Budgets
Presenter: Devin Stein
Co-Author(s): Stein, Devin; Harmer, Camille
Discussant: Anna Faria
Ideas and Policy-Making in Early Twentieth Century São Paulo, Brazil
Presenter: Anna Faria
Discussant: Sandhya Garg
Room: Pontalba Room
Political Consequences of Corruption
Session Chair:
M. Kadir Dogan
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Voters' Information, Corruption, and the Effciency of Local Public Services
Presenter: Davide Vannoni
Co-Author(s): Abrate, Graziano; Boffa, Federico; Erbetta, Fabrizio
Discussant: M. Kadir Dogan
Why support a corrupt politician? The role of information, politician's performance and ideology on voting for a corrupt politician
Presenter: M. Kadir Dogan
Co-Author(s): Evrenk, Haldun
Discussant: Umberto Mignozzetti
When does clientelism pay off? Legislature Size and Welfare with Evidence from Brazil
Presenter: Umberto Mignozzetti
Co-Author(s): Cepaluni, Gabriel
Inspection strategies, Corruption and Common Pool Resources
Presenter: Chenyang Xu
Co-Author(s): Klaas van 't Veld
Discussant: Davide Vannoni
Room: Royal Salon A
Social Trust
Session Chair:
Pedro Camões
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Interaction between Formal and Informal Institutions: Evidence from Latin American Wellbeing
Presenter: Andrea Paramo Florencio
Co-Author(s): Bjørnskov, Christian; Agbenyega, Ruby Elorm
Discussant: Pedro Camões
Citizens' Attitudes Towards Governmental Institutions Across Political Generations: Testing the Effect of individuals' Prior Political Experiences
Presenter: Pedro Camões
Co-Author(s): Mendes, Silvia M.
Discussant: Andreas Bergh
The moldable young: How institutions impact social trust
Presenter: Andreas Bergh
Co-Author(s): Richard Öhrvall
Discussant: Julia Norgaard
Trust Development and Self-Enforcing Exchange in Anonymous Internet Markets
Presenter: Julia Norgaard
Discussant: Andrea Paramo Florencio
Room: Gallier Room
Fiscal Policy in Comparative Perspective
Session Chair:
Real Arai
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Public Capital and Asset Prices: Time-series Evidence from Japan
Presenter: Tomomi Miyazaki
Co-Author(s): Kazuki Hiraga; Masafumi Kozuka
Discussant: Laura Rondi
Ex-ante and ex-post outsourcing in public procurement: Temporary Partnership vs subcontracting
Presenter: Laura Rondi
Co-Author(s): Rondi, Laura; Valbonesi, Paola
Discussant: Moshe Yanovskiy
Political Factors Behind Cuts and Surges in Government Spending: The Effects on Old Market Democracies and Post-Communist Countries
Presenter: Moshe Yanovskiy
Co-Author(s): Zhavoronkov Sergei; Rodionov Kirill
Discussant: Tomomi Miyazaki
Room: Beauregard Room
Responsiveness
Session Chair:
Amir Borges Ferreira Neto
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Busy Doing Nothing - A Model of Unwanted, Unproductive and Obfuscating Policies
Presenter: Anders Kärnä
Discussant: Jeremy Horpedahl
Good and Hard: Do US Voters Get the Policies They Prefer?
Presenter: Jeremy Horpedahl
Discussant: Amir Borges Ferreira Neto
Demand for Public Library Efficiency: An Interest Group versus Median Voter Approach
Presenter: Amir Borges Ferreira Neto
Co-Author(s): Hall, Josh
Do teachers’ unions fit the median voter framework?
Presenter: Michelle Phillips
Co-Author(s): Merkle, Jessica
Discussant: Anders Kärnä
State and Local Fiscal Policy
Session Chair:
Peter Calcagno
Session Organizer:
Peter Calcagno
What do Legislators Optimize: The Case of Safety Regulation
Presenter: David Mitchell
Co-Author(s): Tay, Kai Cher
Discussant: Yang Zhou
Does Government Experience Matter? An Analysis of the Fiscal Impact of Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwartznegger
Presenter: Yang Zhou
Co-Author(s): Roger Congleton
Discussant: David Mitchell
The Role of Fiscal Constraints on Economic Freedom in the States
Presenter: Peter Calcagno
Co-Author(s): Hall, Joshua
Discussant: Jacob Bundrick
Do Subsidies for Businesses Increase Economic Activity?
Presenter: Jacob Bundrick
Discussant: Peter Calcagno
Room: Orleans Room
Explanatory Theories of Public Debt
Session Chair:
Richard Wagner
Session Organizer:
Richard Wagner
Autocracy, Democracy and Excessive Public Debt
Presenter: Richard Salsman
Discussant: William Keech
Causality and Institutions in Explaining Public Debt
Presenter: William Keech
Discussant: David Hebert
Taxation and Debt as Emergent Phenomena
Presenter: David Hebert
Discussant: Richard Wagner
Public deb and the corruption of contract
Presenter: Richard Wagner
Discussant: Richard Salsman
Room: Iberville Room
Regulation
Session Chair:
Conor Lennon
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Regulatory Uncertainty, Employment, and Compensation: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act's Small Group Insurance Marketplace
Presenter: Conor Lennon
Co-Author(s): Sobel, Russell
Discussant: Emily Washington
The Effects of Philadelphia's Zoning Reform on Housing Construction
Presenter: Emily Washington
Discussant: Trey Carson
Scalping
Presenter: Trey Carson
Co-Author(s): Piano, Ennio
Discussant: Conor Lennon
Room: Ursuline Room
Culture
Session Chair:
Matthew Bonick
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Impact of Economic and Political Institutions on Gender Norms
Presenter: Rosemarie Fike
Discussant: Matthew Bonick
On the Origin and Consequences of Racism
Presenter: Matthew Bonick
Co-Author(s): Farfan-Vallespn,Antonio
Discussant: Niclas Berggren
Roots of Tolerance: What Explains Western Values among Children of Immigrants?
Presenter: Niclas Berggren
Co-Author(s): Ljunge, Martin; Nilsson, Therese
Discussant: Rosemarie Fike
Room: Pontalba Room
Terrorism
Session Chair:
Edwar Escalante
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
I hope I die before I get old. The supply side of the market for suicide bombers
Presenter: Thomas Apolte
Discussant: Edwar Escalante
A Private Solution to Terrorism
Presenter: Edwar Escalante
Discussant: Thomas Gries
An Economic Theory of 'Destabilization War': Compromise for Peace Versus Conventional, Guerilla, or Terrorist Warfare
Presenter: Thomas Gries
Co-Author(s): Haake, Claus-Jochen
Discussant: Thomas Apolte
Room: Beauregard Room
Property Rights
Session Chair:
Adrian Moore
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Transaction Costs of Property Rights: Evidence from Timber Auctions
Presenter: Colin Doran
Co-Author(s): Stratmann, Thomas
Discussant: Vincent Geloso
Monopsony and Industrial Development in Nineteenth Century Quebec: The Impact of Seigneurial Tenure
Presenter: Vincent Geloso
Co-Author(s): Vadim Kufenko; Alex Arsenault Morin
Discussant: Adrian Moore
Are Government Granted Licenses Property Rights?
Presenter: Adrian Moore
Discussant: Javier Portillo
Land-Assembly and Externalities: How does the prospect of future positive externalities affect land aggregation outcomes?
Presenter: Javier Portillo
Discussant: Colin Doran
Room: Gallier Room
Rent-Seeking
Session Chair:
Raymond March
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Unions Rent-Seeking Behavior and the Government's Use of Monopsony Power
Presenter: Priscila Casari
Co-Author(s): Alves, Pamella
Discussant: Raymond March
Does Physician Concentration Reduce Pharmaceutical Payments to Physicians? An Empirical Analysis
Presenter: Raymond March
Discussant: James Strickland
Determinants of Lobbying Activity by Interest Groups: The Population Ecology of Lobbyists
Presenter: James Strickland
Discussant: Ryan Yonk
Exploring the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
Presenter: Ryan Yonk
Co-Author(s): Wardle, Arthur; Smith Josh
Discussant: Priscila Casari
Room: Royal Salon A
The Political Economy of Violence
Session Chair:
Toshihiro Ihori
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Violent Conflict and Political Institutional Change
Presenter: Brandon Brice
Discussant: Toshihiro Ihori
National Emergency, Security Spending, and Growth
Presenter: Toshihiro Ihori
Discussant: Murat Mungan
Disenfranchisement and Over-Incarceration
Presenter: Murat Mungan
Discussant: Brandon Brice
Celebrating Bob Tollison's Life and Works: A Memorial Roundtable - Sponsored by the William E. Simon Professorship of Political Economy at Lafayette College
Session Chair:
Mark Crain
Session Organizer:
Edward Lopez
Robert's Rules for a Knowledge-Creating Society
Presenter: Mark Crain
A Restless Mind
Presenter: Michael Munger
Bob Tollison, A Personal Remembrance
Presenter: William Shughart
Tollison and the Value of Empirical Bricks
Presenter: Brian Goff