
2018 Public Choice Society, March 1-3, Charleston, South Carolina March 1-3, Francis Marion Hotel, Charleston, SC
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- Thursday, March 1
- 1:00pm – 6:30pm
- 2:00pm – 3:30pm
- 4:00pm – 5:45pm *
- 6:00pm – 7:30pm
- 7:30pm – 11:59pm
- Friday, March 2
- 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 3
- 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 4
- 8:30am – 12:30pm
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Room: Carolina Ballroom
Conference Welcome, Special Introductions
Session Chair:
Edward Lopez
Friday, March 2, 2018
Political Economy of Corruption I
Session Chair:
Oguzhan Dincer
Session Organizer:
Oguzhan Dincer
Room: Pinckney Room
Experimental Public Choice I
Session Chair:
Gregory DeAngelo
Session Organizer:
Gregory DeAngelo
Room: Colonial Ballroom
Book Panel: “From Enactment to Repeal: Examining the Post-Passage Fate of Landmark Laws.”
Session Chair:
Peter Calcagno
Session Organizer:
Peter Calcagno
Room: Rutledge Room
The Political Economy of Autocracy
Session Chair:
Thomas Apolte
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Calhoun Room
Comparative Institutional Analysis and Design
Session Chair:
Richard F. Potthoff
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Carolina Ballroom B
Models of Legislative Bargaining
Session Chair:
Georg Vanberg
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Laurens Room
Public Choice and Public Goods
Session Chair:
David Chandler Thomas
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Middleton Room
The Political Economy of Taxation
Session Chair:
Tomomi Miyazaki
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Carolina Ballroom A
Freedom and Economic History _ Papers Honoring Jac Heckelman
Session Chair:
Keith Dougherty
Session Organizer:
Keith Dougherty
Plenary Session 2: Positive Political Theory and Public Choice: Ken Shepsle’s Contributions to the New Institutionalism - Sponsored by Duke Political Science Department and Public Choice Society
Session Chair:
Georg Vanberg
Session Organizer:
Georg Vanberg
Public Policy and Entrepreneurship
Session Chair:
Diana Thomas
Session Organizer:
Diana Thomas
Room: Carolina Ballroom B
Political Economy of Public Policy
Session Chair:
Jakob de Haan
Session Organizer:
Arye Hillman
Room: Gold Ballroom
Fourth Annual Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Prize for Best Combined Paper and Presentation by a Graduate Student: Finalist Presentations
Session Chair:
Michael Munger
Session Organizer:
Lynne Kiesling
Room: Carolina Ballroom A
Corruption in Comparative Perspective
Session Chair:
Suryadipta Roy
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Colonial Ballroom
Institutional Quality and Growth / Development
Session Chair:
Helena Helfer
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Middleton Room
Institutional Origins and Change
Session Chair:
Craig Depken
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Laurens Room
Constitutions and the Legal System
Session Chair:
Josh Matti
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Calhoun Room
Local Fiscal Policy
Session Chair:
Ross Milton
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Rutledge Room
Voter Behavior and Political Competition
Session Chair:
Richard Jankowski
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Social Choice and Populism
Session Chair:
Keith Dougherty
Session Organizer:
Keith Dougherty
Room: Carolina Ballroom B
Empirical State and Local Political Economy
Session Chair:
Dean Stansel
Session Organizer:
Dean Stansel
Room: Middleton Room
40+ Years of Approval Voting Research: Its History and Future
Session Chair:
Mahendra Prasad
Session Organizer:
Mahendra Prasad
Room: Gold Ballroom
International Cooperation and Conflict
Session Chair:
Paul Pecorino
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Pinckney Room
Institutions and the Firm
Session Chair:
Jacob Burgdorf
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Carolina Ballroom A
Labor Policy and Regulation
Session Chair:
Jason Saving
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Rutledge Room
Legislative Decisionmaking in Panel Data Models
Session Chair:
William B. Hankins
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Laurens Room
Political Economy of Property
Session Chair:
Colin Harris
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Calhoun Room
Policy Responsiveness and Accountability
Session Chair:
Stefanie Gaebler
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Experimental Public Choice III
Session Chair:
Gregory DeAngelo
Session Organizer:
Gregory DeAngelo
Room: Middleton Room
Art, Science, and Political Economy I
Session Chair:
Richard Wagner
Session Organizer:
Richard Wagner
Room: Gold Ballroom
Constitutional Political Economy
Session Chair:
Matthew Bonick
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Calhoun Room
Development and Redistribution
Session Chair:
Vasyl Kvartiuk
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Laurens Room
Panel Data Models of Democracy and Performance
Session Chair:
Sebastiano Bavetta
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Carolina Ballroom B
Games and Experiments in Public Choice
Session Chair:
Calvin Blackwell
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Rutledge Room
Political Theory and the History of Ideas
Session Chair:
Charles Delmotte
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Pinckney Room
Voter Preferences and Voter Choice
Session Chair:
Niclas Berggren
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Saturday, March 3, 2018
Politics and Housing Markets
Session Chair:
Daniel Jones
Session Organizer:
Peter Calcagno
Room: Gold Ballroom
Political Economy of Institutions
Session Chair:
Peter Calcagno
Session Organizer:
Peter Calcagno
Room: Carolina Ballroom A
Governance and Corruption in Sports
Session Chair:
Raymond Sauer
Session Organizer:
Raymond Sauer
Room: Pinckney Room
Political Determinants of Development
Session Chair:
King Banaian
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Rutledge Room
Interest Group Politics in the States
Session Chair:
Amir Borges Ferreira Neto
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Calhoun Room
The Political Economy of Monetary Policy
Session Chair:
Stephen Miller
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Colonial Ballroom
Developments in Social Choice Theory
Session Chair:
James Endersby
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Middleton Room
Experimental Approaches to Voting Experiments
Session Chair:
William English
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Carolina Ballroom B
Institutions, Norms, and Collective Action
Session Chair:
Roger Congleton
Session Organizer:
Roger Congleton
Political Influence and Benefits
Session Organizer:
Amihai Glazer
Room: Gold Ballroom
The Political Economy of Policing and Imprisonment
Session Chair:
David Skarbek
Session Organizer:
David Skarbek
Room: Calhoun Room
Engineering Political Stability in Ancient Greece
Session Chair:
F. Andrew Hanssen
Room: Laurens Room
Constitutional Design
Session Chair:
GIUSEPPE EUSEPI
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Carolina Ballroom B
Experimental Approaches to Bargaining
Session Chair:
Christoph Vanberg
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Middleton Room
Game Theoretic Models of Elections
Session Chair:
Kim Leonie Kellermann
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Parkview Room
Political Budget Cycles
Session Chair:
Velibor Mačkić
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Pinckney Room
Smith, Buchanan, and the Ostrom Tradition
Session Chair:
Nathan Goodman
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Rutledge Room
Political Participation and Turnout
Session Chair:
Alfa Farah
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Art, Science, and Political Economy II
Session Chair:
Richard Wagner
Session Organizer:
Richard Wagner
Room: Carolina Ballroom B
Stateless Commerce and Governance
Session Chair:
David Skarbek
Session Organizer:
David Skarbek
Room: Parkview Room
Political Economy of Corruption II
Session Chair:
Peter Calcagno
Session Organizer:
Peter Calcagno
Room: Laurens Room
Protests and Democratization
Session Chair:
Stefan Voigt
Session Organizer:
Stefan Voigt
Room: Gold Ballroom
Coaseian Public Choice
Session Chair:
Colin Doran
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Calhoun Room
Fiscal Policy in Comparative Perspective
Session Chair:
Real Arai
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Middleton Room
Regulatory Politics at the State and Local Level
Session Chair:
Caitlin O'Loughlin
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Carolina Ballroom A
Markets and Government
Session Chair:
Andreas Bergh
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Pinckney Room
Public Choice Insights on Regulation – a View from Washington
Session Chair:
Bruce Yandle
Session Organizer:
Susan Dudley
Experimental Public Choice II
Session Chair:
Gregory DeAngelo
Session Organizer:
Gregory DeAngelo
Room: Middleton Room
Theory and History
Session Chair:
Diana Thomas
Session Organizer:
Diana Thomas
Room: Carolina Ballroom B
Rules and Rule Changes in Public and Private Sectors
Session Chair:
F. Andrew Hanssen
Session Organizer:
F. Andrew Hanssen
Room: Gold Ballroom
Round Table Honoring Jac Heckelman
Session Chair:
Bonnie Wilson
Session Organizer:
Keith Dougherty
Room: Rutledge Room
Environmental Regulation and Public Choice
Session Chair:
Sami Dakhlia
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Laurens Room
Happiness and Well-being
Session Chair:
Jeremy Jackson
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Pinckney Room
Interest Groups in a Public Choice Perspective
Session Chair:
Slade Mendenhall
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Calhoun Room
Policy and Regulation in the States
Session Chair:
Mark Witte
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session