
2021 Public Choice Society, March 11-13, Savannah Georgia
- Thursday, March 11
- 8:00am – 5:00pm
- 5:00pm – 7:30pm
- 5:30pm – 9:00pm
- Friday, March 12
- 7:00am – 8:00am
- 8:00am – 5:00pm *
- 8:00am – 9:30am *
- 10:00am – 11:20am
- 1:00pm – 2:30pm *
- 2:40pm – 4:10pm *
- 4:20pm – 5:50pm *
- 5:00pm – 9:00pm
- Saturday, March 13
- 7:00am – 8:00am
- 8:00am – 9:30am *
- 10:00am – 11:30am
- 11:30am – 1:00pm *
- 1:00pm – 2:30pm
- 2:40pm – 4:10pm *
- 4:20pm – 5:30pm
- 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Friday, March 12, 2021
Institutional Paradoxes, Failure, and Mistakes - Honoring Bernard Grofman
Session Chair:
Marek Kaminski
Session Organizer:
Bonnie Wilson
Implications of Soundness-Dependent Effects for Interventions in the Replication Crisis
Presenter: Aydin Mohseni
Discussant: Marek Kaminski
Primacy effects in proportional representation and single-member district elections
Presenter: Marek Kaminski
Discussant: Aydin Mohseni
Redistricting: Squaring the Circle of Seemingly Incompatible Legal Standards
Presenter: Bernard Grofman
Virginia Political Economy II: Institutional Processes
Session Chair:
Richard Wagner
Session Organizer:
Richard Wagner
Foregone and Superfluous Innovation
Presenter: Marta Podemska-Mikluch
Discussant: Alexander Taylor
Public Opinion: An Entangled Reconstruction
Presenter: Alexander Taylor
Discussant: Marta Podemska-Mikluch
The Vitality of Animal Spirits for Market Economies
Presenter: Sarah Moore
Discussant: Meg Patrick Tuszynski
"Beyond Markets and Governments: Fitting the Third Sector into the Entangled Political Economy Framework"
Presenter: Meg Patrick Tuszynski
Discussant: Sarah Moore
Subnational Economic Development
Session Chair:
Daniel Bennett
Session Organizer:
Daniel Bennett
Immigration and Economic Freedom of the US States: Does Time in the US Matter?
Presenter: Alexandre Padilla
Co-Author(s): Nicolás Cachanosky; Dean Stansel; Meg Tuszynski
Discussant: Gary Wagner
The Political Economy of State Economic Development Incentives
Presenter: Gary Wagner
Co-Author(s): Russell S. Sobel; Peter T. Calcagno
Discussant: Alexandre Padilla
Do Perceived Obstacles Deter Innovation Efforts of Firms? Micro-Evidence from India
Presenter: Nabamita Dutta
Co-Author(s): Hamid Beladi; Saibal Kar
Discussant: Daniel Bennett
Regional Innovation Networks & High-Growth Entrepreneurship
Presenter: Daniel Bennett
Co-Author(s): Gary Wagner
Discussant: Nabamita Dutta
State Capacity
Session Organizer:
Public Choice Society President
The foundation of English state capacity and economic growth: King Alfred and the Vikings
Presenter: Nathaniel Smith
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Vasyl Kvartiuk
Institutional quality and liberal land reforms acceptance: The case of Ukrainian land reform
Presenter: Vasyl Kvartiuk
Co-Author(s): Deininger, Klaus
Discussant: Clemens Buchen
Institutional reform paths
Presenter: Clemens Buchen
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Nathaniel Smith
Voting
Session Organizer:
Public Choice Society President
Strategic voting and strategic abstention in iterative multi-candidate elections
Presenter: Fabricio Vasselai
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Dmitriy Vorobyev
Participation Quorum when Voting is Costly
Presenter: Dmitriy Vorobyev
Co-Author(s): Matveenko, Andrei; Valei, Azamat
Discussant: Fabricio Vasselai
Iterative Calculus of Voting under Plurality
Presenter: Fabricio Vasselai
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Nicolaus Tideman
A Rational Way to Shrink a Set of Candidates to Any Specified Size
Presenter: Nicolaus Tideman
Discussant: Fabricio Vasselai
Social Order
Session Organizer:
Public Choice Society President
Similes cum Similibus: How Shared Characteristics Shape Election and Policy Outcomes
Presenter: Benjamin Ogden
Co-Author(s): Bromo, Francesco
Discussant: Mats Ekman
Why Matriliny?
Presenter: Mats Ekman
Co-Author(s): Ekman, Mats (sole author)
Discussant: FREDERIC KELLOGG
De Gustibus et Conflictu Socialis: Fixed Preferences and Social Conflict
Presenter: FREDERIC KELLOGG
Co-Author(s): Dr. Brian E. Butler
Discussant: Jhonatan Saldana Diaz
Do we need prospect theory to explain politics and conflict?
Presenter: Jhonatan Saldana Diaz
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Benjamin Ogden
Corruption
Session Organizer:
Public Choice Society President
Corruption accusations and bureaucratic performance: Evidence from Pakistan
Presenter: Ummad Mazhar
Co-Author(s): Iftikhar, Komal
Discussant: Slade Mendenhall
Scandal
Presenter: Slade Mendenhall
Co-Author(s): Joshua Ingber
Discussant: Julien Hanoteau
Does e-procurement reduce firm corruption to secure public contracts?
Presenter: Julien Hanoteau
Co-Author(s): Barkemeyer Ralf; Jimenez Alfredo
Discussant: Van Ha Le
Unreported income by government employees in Vietnam: Estimation and Verification
Presenter: Van Ha Le
Co-Author(s): I am the single author
Discussant: Ummad Mazhar
War and War Gaming
Session Organizer:
Public Choice Society President
The Continuing Debate on Military Conscription
Presenter: Mark Crain
Co-Author(s): Nicole Crain
Discussant: Edwar Escalante
When Women fight Wars
Presenter: Edwar Escalante
Co-Author(s): Escalante, Edwar
Discussant: Yahya Alshamy
Defense and Governance in Stateless Pre-Islamic Mecca
Presenter: Yahya Alshamy
Co-Author(s): N/A
Discussant: Garrett Wood
The Robust Political Economy of Wargaming
Presenter: Garrett Wood
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Mark Crain
Plenary Session: Bart J. Wilson "The Property Species"
Session Chair:
William Shughart
Session Organizer:
William Shughart
Plenary Talk: Bart J. Wilson "The Property Species"
Presenter: Bart Wilson
Roundtable on Shared Mental Models: Kyklos Symposium in Honor of Douglass C. North
Session Chair:
Ravi Roy
Session Organizer:
Arthur Denzau
Institutional Change and the Importance of Understanding Shared Mental Models
Presenter: William Shughart
Discussant: Michael Munger
Shared Belief Systems, The “Basic Space,” and the Constrained Nature of Rationality in Judging Institutions
Presenter: Michael Munger
Discussant: Ronil Hira
Outsourcing: A case of Shared Mental Models in conflict
Presenter: Ronil Hira
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: William Shughart
Rent Seeking and Rent Creation
Session Organizer:
Public Choice Society President
Estimating the Impact of Rent-Seeking on Income Distribution
Presenter: Stephen Miller
Co-Author(s): Melo, Vitor
Discussant: Kaori Hasegawa
IIdentity Loss and Rent-Seeking in Gender Categories in Japan
Presenter: Kaori Hasegawa
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Mohammad Qadam Shah
The Politics of Budgetary Capture in Fragile States: Who Gets What When and How in Afghanistan
Presenter: Mohammad Qadam Shah
Co-Author(s): Qadam Shah, Mohammad
Discussant: Peter Hazlett
Bureaucratic Rent Creation: The Case of Price Discrimination in the Market for Postsecondary Education
Presenter: Peter Hazlett
Co-Author(s): Chandler Reilly
Discussant: Stephen Miller
Russia
Session Organizer:
Public Choice Society President
Russian Merger Control: in Favor of Foreign Companies?
Presenter: Anastasiia Redkina
Co-Author(s): Jardon, Carlos; Molodchik, Mariia
Discussant: Vasyl Kvartiuk
Does it pay to be a regional MP in Russia? Regulatory capture in Russian agricultural subsidization
Presenter: Vasyl Kvartiuk
Co-Author(s): Herzfeld, Thomas
Discussant: Justin Callais
Is Putin’s Russia Really a Normal Country? A Synthetic Control Approach
Presenter: Justin Callais
Co-Author(s): Martin, Adam
Discussant: Scott King
An Economic Theory of Personality Cults
Presenter: Scott King
Co-Author(s): N/A
Discussant: Anastasiia Redkina
Regulation and Health
Session Organizer:
Public Choice Society President
Condoning More Codones: Florida's Opioid Trafficking Law and Opioid Mortality
Presenter: Eunsik Chang
Co-Author(s): solo authored
Discussant: Arijit Ray
Is providing contraceptives without doctor's prescription effective in reducing foster care admission?
Presenter: Arijit Ray
Co-Author(s): Ray, Arijit.
Discussant: Audrey Redford
The Impact of Drug-Induced Homicide Laws on Unintentional Drug Overdose Rates
Presenter: Audrey Redford
Co-Author(s): Angela K. Dills; Kathleen M. Sheehan
Discussant: Moiz Bhai
The Effects of Occupational Licensing Reform on Children's Health
Presenter: Moiz Bhai
Co-Author(s): Mitch Mitchell
Discussant: Eunsik Chang
Past Presidents
Session Organizer:
Public Choice Society President
Political Preferences and Public Policy
Presenter: Randall Holcombe
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Roger Congleton
Assessing the Impacts of Publications: Readership and Citations as Alternative Measures of Impact
Presenter: Roger Congleton
Co-Author(s): Alex Marsella (WVU) and Alexander J Cardazzi (WVU)
Discussant: Edward Lopez
Feuding, Credible Commitments, and the Blessings of an Independent Judiciary: The Diet of Worms and the Creation of the Imperial Chamber Court
Presenter: Georg Vanberg
Co-Author(s): Broman, Benjamin
Discussant: Randall Holcombe
Regulation in the Large
Session Organizer:
Public Choice Society President
A 50 State Review of Regulatory Procedures
Presenter: Feler Bose
Co-Author(s): Baugus, Brian; Broughel, James
Discussant: Robert Loveland
Deregulation, Listing and Delisting
Presenter: Robert Loveland
Co-Author(s): Mulherin, J. Harold; Okoeguale, Kevin
Discussant: Donghyuk Kim
Economic Spillovers and Political Payoffs in Government Competition for Firms: Evidence from the Kansas City Border War
Presenter: Donghyuk Kim
Co-Author(s): N/A
Discussant: Bruno Buscariolli
Firm-level Impacts of Pro-Market Reforms: Latin America as a Laboratory
Presenter: Bruno Buscariolli
Co-Author(s): Carneiro, Jorge; Dau, Luis; Moore, Elizabeth
Discussant: Sean Mulholland
Don't TREAD on anyone
Presenter: Sean Mulholland
Co-Author(s): Mulholland, Sean
Discussant: Feler Bose
Political Capitalism
Session Chair:
Mehrdad Vahabi
Session Organizer:
Mehrdad Vahabi
Political capitalism under the Islamic Republic of Iran
Presenter: Mehrdad Vahabi
Discussant: Miklos Rosta
Political capitalism in the French heath system: the welfare state against the citizens' health
Presenter: Philippe Batifoulier
Co-Author(s): Nicolas Da Silva
Discussant: Judit Kalman
Predatory capitalism. Understanding property rights in hybrid regimes
Presenter: Miklos Rosta
Discussant: Mehrdad Vahabi
Unemployment Policy as Predation - Public Works Program in Hungary
Presenter: Judit Kalman
Discussant: Nicolas Da Silva
Political Economy and Development
Session Chair:
Justin Callais
Session Organizer:
Kevin Grier
Lies, Damned Lies, and (Corrupt) Statistics: Corruption and Statistical Quality
Presenter: Justin Callais
Discussant: Israt Jahan
Do Longer Constitutions Corrupt?
Presenter: Israt Jahan
Co-Author(s): Jamie Bologna
Discussant: Linan Peng
Did the Northeast Area Revitalization Plan Work? A Multiple Synthetic Control Analysis
Presenter: Linan Peng
Freedom and Growth Hand in Hand? Evidence from Bangladesh
Presenter: Towhid Mahmood
Discussant: Justin Callais
Occupational Licensing
Session Chair:
Bonnie Wilson
Session Organizer:
Bonnie Wilson
Scope of Practice Effects on the Prescription of Opioids by Nurse Practitioners Serving Medicare Beneficiaries
Presenter: Alicia Plemmons
Is licensing disproportionally impeding veteran entrepreneurship?
Presenter: Sriparna Ghosh
Co-Author(s): Connor Norris
Discussant: Alicia Plemmons
Polycentricity
Session Chair:
Marianne Johnson
Session Organizer:
Public Choice Society President
Polycentric Defense in the Civil Rights Movement
Presenter: Nathan Goodman
Co-Author(s): N/A
Discussant: Alexander Schaefer
The Problem of Complexity and the Emergence of Polycentric Political Order
Presenter: Alexander Schaefer
Co-Author(s): Daems, Dries
Discussant: Thomas Choate
Policy conflict and the distribution of government capacity
Presenter: Thomas Choate
Co-Author(s): n/a
Discussant: Marianne Johnson
Elinor Ostrom on Working Together
Presenter: Marianne Johnson
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Nathan Goodman
Parliaments and Judges
Session Organizer:
Public Choice Society President
Informativeness vs. Responsiveness: An Endogenous Legislative Trade-off
Presenter: Benjamin Ogden
Co-Author(s): n/a
Discussant: Adrian Lucardi
Resignation as Promotion? Assessing Patterns of Early Departure in the Argentine Congress, 1983-2017
Presenter: Adrian Lucardi
Co-Author(s): Micozzi, Juan Pablo; Skigin, Natan
Discussant: Gabriel Benzecry
The representatives of the people? Collective action in Brazil’s Constituent Assembly
Presenter: Gabriel Benzecry
Co-Author(s): N/A
Discussant: Seana Sugrue
Is It Time to Reconsider Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices?
Presenter: Seana Sugrue
Co-Author(s): none
Discussant: Benjamin Ogden
New Books - Author Talks
Session Chair:
Edward Lopez
Session Organizer:
Edward Lopez
Author Remarks on "Leave Me Alone and I'll Make you Rich"
Presenter: Art Carden
Co-Author(s): Deirdre McCloskey
Author Remarks on "Wretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions"
Presenter: Benjamin Powell
Co-Author(s): Alex Nowrasteh
Institutional Paradoxes, Failure, and Mistakes - Honoring Steven Brams
Session Chair:
Marek Kaminski
Session Organizer:
Bonnie Wilson
Strategic games and hidden incentives in Formula 1 racing
Presenter: Brian Kaiser
Discussant: Ugurcan Evci
Comparing plurality rule against Borda count on the basis of their majoritarian axioms
Presenter: Jac Heckelman
Discussant: Brian Kaiser
Reflections on Political Paradoxes
Presenter: Steven Brams
Institutions & Entrepreneurship
Session Chair:
Daniel Bennett
Session Organizer:
Daniel Bennett
The Burden of Occupational Licensing at the Local Level
Presenter: Alicia Plemmons
Co-Author(s): Sriparna Ghosh; Dean Stansel
Legitimate Ink: Licensing and Entry in the Tattooing Industry
Presenter: Fabian Diaz
Co-Author(s): Maria Minniti
Discussant: Alicia Plemmons
When does entrepreneurship create lasting firms?
Presenter: Christian Bjørnskov
Co-Author(s): Nikolai Foss; Chloe Xu
Discussant: Daniel Bennett
Institutions and Entrepreneurial Action: The Mediating Role of Socio-Cognitive Traits
Presenter: Daniel Bennett
Co-Author(s): Christopher Boudreaux; David Lucas; Boris Nikolaev
Discussant: Christian Bjørnskov
Macroeconomic Policies
Session Organizer:
Public Choice Society President
Chinese Development Lending & the Amplification Effect
Presenter: Greg Caskey
Co-Author(s): N/A
Discussant: Pierre Mandon
Has the Literature Highlighted Evidence that Chinese Official Financing Benefited Recipient Countries? Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis
Presenter: Pierre Mandon
Co-Author(s): Woldemichael, Martha Tesfaye
Discussant: Toshihiro Ihori
Environmental quality, dirty consumption and abatement attempts in an inequality economy
Presenter: Toshihiro Ihori
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Ernesto del Castillo
The Sustainability of Mexican Municipalities Debt
Presenter: Ernesto del Castillo
Co-Author(s): René Cabral Torres; Eduardo Saucedo de la Fuente
Discussant: Greg Caskey
How Should Ranked-Choice Votes be Counted?
Session Organizer:
Nicolaus Tideman
Is Dodgson's Proposal the Answer to Residual Strategic Vulnerability under Condorcet-Hare?
Presenter: James Green-Armytage
Can Public Officials Understand and Accept the Ranked Pairs Rule?
Presenter: Tyler Caraza-Harter
Discussant: John Moser
What Happens When a Candidate Knocks on Doors Advocating the Ranked Pairs Rule?
Presenter: John Moser
A Report from the Field: The Case for an Open Primary and a Top Five IRV Run-Off
Presenter: Katherine Gehl
Meta Public Choice
Session Organizer:
Public Choice Society President
Tacit collusion in politics
Presenter: Anders Kärnä
Co-Author(s): Christian Johansson; Jaakko Meriläinen
Discussant: Pierre Rafih
The Impact of Welfare Chauvinism on the Results of Right-Wing Populist Voting in Germany after the Refugee Crisis
Presenter: Pierre Rafih
Co-Author(s): Bartholomae, Florian; Nam, Chang Woon
Discussant: Rick Raddatz
Meta Public Choice: a Five-Economy Model of Society
Presenter: Rick Raddatz
Co-Author(s): Single-author paper
Discussant: Martin Paldam
The Democratic Transition – the Story of the Long Run
Presenter: Martin Paldam
Co-Author(s): none
Discussant: Anders Kärnä
Immigration, Trade and Slavery
Session Organizer:
Public Choice Society President
When Fievel Can’t Go West: Immigration Restrictions and Entrepreneurship
Presenter: Joshua Bedi
Co-Author(s): Jia, Shaomeng
Discussant: Jon Murphy
Rethinking the National Defense Exception to Free Trade: An Analysis using the Jones Act and Defense Production Act
Presenter: Jon Murphy
Co-Author(s): Goodman, Nathan
Discussant: Phil Magness
The Economics of Slavery: A Tullockian Assessment
Presenter: Phil Magness
Co-Author(s): Art Carden; Ilia Murtazashvili
Discussant: Matteo Pazzona
Migrants’ Diversity and Team’s Performance
Presenter: Matteo Pazzona
Co-Author(s): Addesa, Francesco; Rossi, Giambattista
Discussant: Joshua Bedi
The Political Economy of Cultural Assimilation
Session Chair:
Greg Caskey
Session Organizer:
Greg Caskey
Ethnogenesis and Statelessness
Presenter: Louis Rouanet
Co-Author(s): Vincent Geloso
Discussant: Greg Caskey
State Capacity and Predation: The Case of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang
Presenter: Greg Caskey
Co-Author(s): Murtazashvili, Ilia
Discussant: Ilia Murtazashvili
Trail of Tears: The Political Economy of Cultural Assimilation
Presenter: Ilia Murtazashvili
Co-Author(s): Gregory W. Caskey
Discussant: Linan Peng
Did the Policies in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Lead to Higher Development and Social Compliance? A Synthetic Control Analysis
Presenter: Linan Peng
Co-Author(s): Justin Callais
Discussant: Louis Rouanet