2017 Conference Program
- Thursday, March 2
- 1:00pm — 7:00pm
- 3:00pm — 4:15pm
- 4:30pm — 6:00pm *
- 6:00pm — 7:30pm
- 7:30pm — 11:59pm
- 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 — 9:00pm
- 6:00pm — 11:59pm
- Saturday, March 4
- 7:00am — 8:00am
- 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 — 2:30pm
- 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
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Saturday, March 4, 2017
4:10pm—4:20pm
4:20pm—5:50pm
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
Robert's Rules for a Knowledge-Creating Society
A Restless Mind
Bob Tollison, A Personal Remembrance
Tollison and the Value of Empirical Bricks
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4:20pm—5:50pm
Royal Salon A
The Political Economy of Violence
Session Chair: Toshihiro Ihori
Violent Conflict and Political Institutional Change
National Emergency, Security Spending, and Growth
Disenfranchisement and Over-Incarceration
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4:20pm—5:50pm
Gallier Room
Rent-Seeking
Session Chair: Raymond March
Unions Rent-Seeking Behavior and the Government's Use of Monopsony Power
Does Physician Concentration Reduce Pharmaceutical Payments to Physicians? An Empirical Analysis
Determinants of Lobbying Activity by Interest Groups: The Population Ecology of Lobbyists
Exploring the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
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4:20pm—5:50pm
Beauregard Room
Property Rights
Session Chair: Adrian Moore
Transaction Costs of Property Rights: Evidence from Timber Auctions
Monopsony and Industrial Development in Nineteenth Century Quebec: The Impact of Seigneurial Tenure
Are Government Granted Licenses Property Rights?
Land-Assembly and Externalities: How does the prospect of future positive externalities affect land aggregation outcomes?
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4:20pm—5:50pm
Pontalba Room
Terrorism
Session Chair: Edwar Escalante
I hope I die before I get old. The supply side of the market for suicide bombers
A Private Solution to Terrorism
An Economic Theory of 'Destabilization War': Compromise for Peace Versus Conventional, Guerilla, or Terrorist Warfare
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4:20pm—5:50pm
Ursuline Room
Culture
Session Chair: Matthew Bonick
The Impact of Economic and Political Institutions on Gender Norms
On the Origin and Consequences of Racism
Roots of Tolerance: What Explains Western Values among Children of Immigrants?
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4:20pm—5:50pm
Iberville Room
Regulation
Session Chair: Conor Lennon
Regulatory Uncertainty, Employment, and Compensation: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act's Small Group Insurance Marketplace
The Effects of Philadelphia's Zoning Reform on Housing Construction
Scalping
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4:20pm—5:50pm
Orleans Room
Explanatory Theories of Public Debt
Session Chair: Richard Wagner
Autocracy, Democracy and Excessive Public Debt
Causality and Institutions in Explaining Public Debt
Taxation and Debt as Emergent Phenomena
Public deb and the corruption of contract
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4:20pm—5:50pm
Cathedral Room
State and Local Fiscal Policy
Session Chair: Peter Calcagno
What do Legislators Optimize: The Case of Safety Regulation
Does Government Experience Matter? An Analysis of the Fiscal Impact of Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwartznegger
The Role of Fiscal Constraints on Economic Freedom in the States
Do Subsidies for Businesses Increase Economic Activity?
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