2020 Public Choice Society, March 12-14, Newport Beach California - Cancelled, Moved Partially to Virtual
- Wednesday, March 11
- 2:00pm – 6:00pm
- Thursday, March 12
- 10:00am – 12:00pm
- 10:00am – 2:00pm
- 1:00pm – 6:15pm
- 2:00pm – 3:30pm
- 4:00pm – 5:45pm *
- 6:00pm – 7:15pm
- 7:15pm – 12:00am
- Friday, March 13
- 7:00am – 5:00pm *
- 7:00am – 8:00am
- 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 *
- Saturday, March 14
- 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 – 4:30pm *
- 2:40pm – 4:10pm
- 4:20pm – 5:50pm *
- 4:30pm – 4:40pm
- 4:40pm – 6:10pm *
- 6:15pm – 7:30pm
- 7:30pm – 11:30pm
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Pre-Conference Empirical Workshop (Day 1)
Session Chair:
Edward Lopez
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Thursday, March 12, 2020
Pre-Conference Empirical Workshop (Day 2)
Session Chair:
Edward Lopez
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Opening Plenary Session: Ami Glazer on Credible Policy
Session Chair:
Roger Congleton
Session Organizer:
Roger Congleton
Friday, March 13, 2020
Political Economy & Entrepreneurship 1 (Sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Political Economy at Ball State University)
Session Chair:
Todd Nesbit
Session Organizer:
Daniel Bennett
Room: Copper Cove
Politics and Expenditures (EEM)
Session Chair:
Tor Midtboe
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Coral Cove
Conflict and Revolts
Session Chair:
Sargis Karavardanyan
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Crystal Cove
Public Goods Experiments and Narratives
Session Chair:
Trey Carson
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Diamond Cove
Constitutional Political Economy 1
Session Chair:
Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Emerald Cove
Institutional Paradoxes, Failures, and Mistakes – Honoring Steven Brams
Session Chair:
Marek Kaminski
Session Organizer:
Bonnie Wilson
Room: Newport Coast Ballroom
James M. Buchanan Centennial (Presidential Session)
Session Chair:
Diana Thomas
Session Organizer:
Diana Thomas
Room: Mariner Cove
Economic Effects of Institutional Change
Session Chair:
Robin Grier
Session Organizer:
Kevin Grier
Room: Sapphire Cove
Applied Micro 4: Crime and Welfare
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Laguna & Sunset
Constitutions and Political Economy
Session Chair:
Justin Callais
Session Organizer:
Kevin Grier
Plenary Session 2: Emerging Scholar Plenary with Claudia Williamson and Andrew T. Young
Session Chair:
Roger Congleton
Session Organizer:
Roger Congleton
Room: Del Mar
The Political Economy of Criminal Trials
Session Chair:
Anna Harvey
Session Organizer:
Georg Vanberg
Room: Coral Cove
Federalism and Local Policy
Session Chair:
Katsuyoshi Okui
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Crystal Cove
Rent Seeking and Corruption
Session Chair:
Hideki Konishi
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Grand Pacific Salon E-F
Socio-Economic Foundations Papers
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Newport Coast Ballroom
Roundtable: Donald Trump and the Future (and Past) of the Republican Party (Presidential Session)
Session Chair:
Bernard Grofman
Session Organizer:
Bernard Grofman
Room: Diamond Cove
Self-governance and Public Choice
Session Chair:
John Meadowcroft
Session Organizer:
John Meadowcroft
Room: Laguna & Sunset
Economics of the Past
Session Chair:
Joshua Hendrickson
Session Organizer:
Ennio Piano
Room: Emerald Cove
Organized Crime, Disorganized Crime, and the State 1: Violence
Session Chair:
David Skarbek
Session Organizer:
David Skarbek
Room: Mariner Cove
Experimental Public Choice 1: Criminal Procedure and Collective Action
Session Chair:
Anastasia Buyalskaya
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Sapphire Cove
The Political Economy of Regulation and Innovation: Topics in Energy and the Environment
Session Chair:
Lynne Kiesling
Session Organizer:
Lynne Kiesling
Political Economy & Entrepreneurship 2
Session Chair:
Daniel Bennett
Session Organizer:
Daniel Bennett
Room: Laguna & Sunset
Sixth Annual Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Prize for Best Combined Paper and Presentation by a Graduate Student
Session Chair:
Roger Congleton
Session Organizer:
Lynne Kiesling
Room: Coral Cove
Ideology and Public Choice
Session Chair:
Anna Faria
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Crystal Cove
Social-Economic Foundations Studies
Session Chair:
Cathleen Johnson
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Newport Coast Ballroom
Constitutional Political Economy 2 (Presidential Session)
Session Chair:
Mauricio Guim
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Diamond Cove
Politics and Debt
Session Chair:
Jeremy Horpedahl
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Emerald Cove
Rent Seeking and Society (EEM)
Session Chair:
Jordan Lofthouse
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Grand Pacific Salon E-F
Elections Theory and Evidence
Session Chair:
D. Marc Kilgour
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Mariner Cove
Regulatory Political Economy
Session Chair:
Anastasiia Redkina
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Sapphire Cove
Experimental Public Choice 2: Risk and Complexity
Session Chair:
Lucas Rentschler
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
New Book Roundtable on "Toward an Economics of Natural Equals: A Documentary History of The Early Virginia School" by David Levy and Sandra Peart (Presidential Session sponsored by Liberty Fund)
Session Chair:
Edward Lopez
Session Organizer:
Edward Lopez
Room: Copper Cove
International Public Choice
Session Chair:
Ingemar Bengtsson
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Coral Cove
U.S. Constitutional Political Economy
Session Chair:
Dwight Lee
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Crystal Cove
Rivalry and Lobbying in Contests
Session Chair:
Marco Serena
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Diamond Cove
Legislators and Legislation
Session Chair:
Akihiro Kawase
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Emerald Cove
Elections, Turnout, and Strategic Voting
Session Chair:
Richard Jong-A-Pin
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Mariner Cove
Leadership
Session Chair:
Yang Zhou
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Grand Pacific Salon E-F
Institutional Paradoxes, Failures, and Mistakes – Honoring Nicholas Miller
Session Chair:
Marek Kaminski
Session Organizer:
Bonnie Wilson
Room: Sapphire Cove
Experimental Public Choice 3: Institutions and Behavior
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Laguna & Sunset
New Book Roundtable on "Let the People Rule" by John Matsusaka
Session Chair:
Roger Congleton
Session Organizer:
John Matsusaka
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Virginia Political Economy 1: Institutions (Sponsored by the F. A. Hayek PPE Program)
Session Chair:
Richard Wagner
Session Organizer:
Richard Wagner
Room: Newport Coast Ballroom
Corruption (Presidential Session)
Session Chair:
Martin Paldam
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Coral Cove
Policy Cycles (EEM)
Session Chair:
Benjamin Läpple
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Crystal Cove
Ignorance and Irrationality
Session Chair:
Scott Scheall
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Diamond Cove
Interest Group Politics
Session Chair:
Mark Crain
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Grand Pacific Salon E-F
Criminal and Corporate Law
Session Chair:
Mario Villarreal
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Emerald Cove
Utilizing the Methodology of Policy Analytics
Session Chair:
Patrick McLaughlin
Session Organizer:
Patrick McLaughlin
Room: Laguna & Sunset
Roundtable on Shared Mental Models: Kyklos Symposium in Honor of Douglass C. North
Session Chair:
Arthur Denzau
Session Organizer:
Ravi Roy
Room: Mariner Cove
Applied Micro 1: Criminal Procedure
Session Chair:
Gregory DeAngelo
Session Organizer:
Gregory DeAngelo
Room: Sapphire Cove
Political Economy of Regulation
Session Chair:
Matthew Holian
Session Organizer:
Peter Calcagno
Plenary Session 3: Susan Rose-Ackerman on Public Choice and Corruption
Session Chair:
Roger Congleton
Session Organizer:
Roger Congleton
Economic Freedom
Session Chair:
Bonnie Wilson
Session Organizer:
Bonnie Wilson
Room: Copper Cove
History of Public Choice Thought
Session Chair:
Veeshan Rayamajhee
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Coral Cove
Corruption and Cronyism
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Crystal Cove
Public Goods Governance and Production (EEM)
Session Chair:
John Horowitz
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Diamond Cove
Bridging research and policy: occupational licensing as a case study
Session Chair:
Edward Timmons
Session Organizer:
Edward Timmons
Room: Newport Coast Ballroom
The Politics of Policing (Presidential Session)
Session Chair:
Georg Vanberg
Session Organizer:
Georg Vanberg
Room: Emerald Cove
Virginia Political Economy 2: Process (Sponsored by the F. A. Hayek PPE Program)
Session Chair:
Peter Hazlett
Session Organizer:
Richard Wagner
Room: Laguna & Sunset
Policy Analytics: Research Applications of New Data
Session Chair:
Patrick McLaughlin
Session Organizer:
Patrick McLaughlin
Room: Mariner Cove
Applied Micro 2: Social Regulation
Session Chair:
Maryah Garner
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Sapphire Cove
Economics of Religion
Session Chair:
Clara Piano
Session Organizer:
Diana Thomas
Awards Luncheon
Session Chair:
Roger Congleton
Session Organizer:
Roger Congleton
Rivalry and Contest Auctions (Presidential Session)
Session Chair:
Stefano Barbieri
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Copper Cove
Government Growth
Session Chair:
Vladimir Maciel
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Coral Cove
Elections, Blocks, and Turnout
Session Chair:
Jo Thori Lind
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Crystal Cove
Culture and Politics
Session Chair:
Clara Piano
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Diamond Cove
Voters, Legislators, and Elections (EEM)
Session Chair:
Loujaina Abdelwahed
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Emerald Cove
Environmental Politics
Session Chair:
Eduardo Fernández Luiña
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Grand Pacific Salon E-F
Political Economy of Public Policy
Session Chair:
Mario Villarreal
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Laguna & Sunset
Decentralization and Local Policy
Session Chair:
Vasyl Kvartiuk
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Mariner Cove
Socio-Economic Effects of Public Policy
Session Chair:
Bora Altay
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Sapphire Cove
Applied Micro 3: Local Studies
Session Chair:
Fredrik Kopsch
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Regulation
Session Chair:
Bonnie Wilson
Session Organizer:
Bonnie Wilson
Room: Coral Cove
Political Economy of Taxation
Session Chair:
Slade Mendenhall
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Crystal Cove
Collective Action Models (EEM)
Session Chair:
Jacob Meyer
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Diamond Cove
Crime Topics and Public Choice
Session Chair:
Jason Aimone
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Newport Coast Ballroom
Political Economy of Law Internationally (Presidential Session)
Session Chair:
Ilia Murtazashvili
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Laguna & Sunset
Public Economics
Session Chair:
Craig Richardson
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Grand Pacific Salon E-F
Organized Crime, Disorganized Crime, and the State 2: Rebellion
Session Chair:
David Skarbek
Session Organizer:
David Skarbek
Room: Emerald Cove
Monetary Politics
Session Chair:
Bryan Cutsinger
Session Organizer:
Kevin Grier
Room: Mariner Cove
Big Questions
Session Chair:
Art Carden
Session Organizer:
Art Carden
Room: Sapphire Cove
Institutional Paradoxes, Failures, and Mistakes – Honoring Bernard Grofman
Session Chair:
Bonnie Wilson
Session Organizer:
Marek Kaminski