2022 Public Choice Society, March 10-12, Nashville Tennessee
- Thursday, March 10
- 1:00pm – 6:30pm
- 2:00pm – 3:30pm
- 4:00pm – 5:45pm
- 6:00pm – 7:30pm
- 7:30pm – 11:59pm
- Friday, March 11
- 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 *
- 5:30pm – 8:30pm *
- 6:00pm – 11:59pm
- Saturday, March 12
- 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
Saturday, March 12, 2022
Political Economy of Economic Development
Session Chair:
Daniel Bennett
Session Organizer:
Daniel Bennett
Aid, Reform, and Interest Groups
Presenter: Bonnie Wilson
Co-Author(s): Jac C. Heckelman
Discussant: Gary Wagner
Regional Economic Growth in the Russian Federation: Spatial Analysis with Economic Freedom
Presenter: Dennis Coates
Co-Author(s): Olga Demidova
Discussant: Bonnie Wilson
The impact of Chinese Aid on Democratic Values in Latin America
Presenter: Andreas Freytag
Co-Author(s): Miriam Kautz
Discussant: Stefan Kirkegaard Sløk-Madsen
From liberal to social institutional logics - How a failed state organization saved itself
Presenter: Stefan Kirkegaard Sløk-Madsen
Discussant: Andreas Freytag
Room: Piedmont
Empirical and Computational Studies of Collective Choice
Session Chair:
Shane Sanders
Session Organizer:
Shane Sanders
Combatting Gerrymandering with Social Choice: the Design of Multi-member Districts
Presenter: Nikhil Garg
Co-Author(s): Wes Gurnee, David Rothschild, David Shmoys
Discussant: Robi Ragan
Borda Count and Majority Rule in a Forward Agenda
Presenter: Keith Dougherty
Co-Author(s): Robi Ragan
Discussant: Shane Sanders
Information, Conflict of Interest, and Vote Quality: A Natural Experiment
Presenter: Shane Sanders
Co-Author(s): Ehrlich, Justin; Potter, Joel
Discussant: Keith Dougherty
Room: Rail Yard A
Pandemics Liberty and Covid 19 Historical and Legal Implications
Session Chair:
Trey Carson
Session Organizer:
Ryan Yonk
Public Health For Sale! Privately Improving Welfare and Public Health
Presenter: Trey Carson
Discussant: Phil Magness
Pandemic Central Planning
Presenter: Phil Magness
Discussant: James Harrigan
The Presidency and Pandemics
Presenter: James Harrigan
Co-Author(s): Johanne Harrigan
Discussant: Ryan Yonk
Room: Summit B
Political Development, Violence, and Crime
Session Chair:
Jordan Gans-Morse
Session Organizer:
David Skarbek
Corruption and Property Rights in Russia: Evidence from the Commercial Court System
Presenter: Jordan Gans-Morse
Co-Author(s): David Szakonyi
Discussant: David Skarbek
The Legacies of Wartime Institutions after Rebel Victory
Presenter: Shelley Liu
Discussant: David Skarbek
Who is to Blame? Youth Crime and Attribution of Responsibility in Urban Mexico
Presenter: Omar García Ponce
Co-Author(s): Isabel Laterzo
Discussant: David Skarbek
From Cocaine to Avocados: Criminal Market Expansion and Violence
Presenter: Chelsea Estancona
Co-Author(s): Lucia Tiscornia
Discussant: David Skarbek
Room: Rail Yard B
Law and International Affairs
Session Chair:
Justin Callais
Session Organizer:
Kevin Grier
Repression and International Trade: An Analysis of Chinese Trade with Islamic Countries
Presenter: Greg Caskey
Co-Author(s): Justin Callais; Linan Peng
Discussant: Gor Mkrtchian
The Effects of Enduring Constitutions on Incomes
Presenter: Justin Callais
Discussant: Greg Caskey
Catastrophe - State Capacity, Violence and Natural Disasters
Presenter: Silvio Livio Simonetti Neto
Discussant: Justin Callais
Court Packing
Presenter: Gor Mkrtchian
Co-Author(s): Justin Callais
Discussant: Silvio Livio Simonetti Neto
Room: Rail Yard C
Monetary Politics
Session Chair:
Kevin Grier
Session Organizer:
Kevin Grier
Political Biases at the Federal Reserve
Presenter: Bryan Cutsinger
Co-Author(s): William Luther
Discussant: Kevin Grier
Democracy, Dictatorship, and the Monetary Commons
Presenter: Louis Rouanet
Co-Author(s): Bryan Cutsinger
Discussant: Kevin Grier
Political Instability and the Demand for Money During Hyperinflation
Presenter: Joshua Ingber
Co-Author(s): Louis Rouanet
Discussant: Kevin Grier
A Public Choice Account of Prompt Corrective Action
Presenter: Thomas Hogan
Co-Author(s): Bryan Cutsinger
Discussant: Kevin Grier
Room: North Coast A
Roundtable on Anthony Downs, 1930-2021
Session Chair:
Michael Munger
Session Organizer:
Michael Munger
Anthony Downs and the Virginia School
Presenter: William Shughart
The Downsian Model of Ideology
Presenter: Michael Munger
Downs and the Origins of the Spatial Model
Presenter: Bernard Grofman
Anthony Downs and Social Choice
Presenter: Steven Brams
Room: North Coast B
Income Inequality
Session Chair:
Francisco Alberto Castellanos Sosa
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Spatial income inequality in the United States
Presenter: Francisco Alberto Castellanos Sosa
Discussant: Steven Brownell
Economic Freedom and Interstate Migration in the US
Presenter: Steven Brownell
Discussant: Wilson Law
Interpreting intergenerational mobility and inequality
Presenter: Wilson Law
Discussant: Francisco Alberto Castellanos Sosa
Room: Summit A
Public Opinion, Protests and Violence
Session Chair:
Niclas Berggren
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Does Legal Freedom Satisfy?
Presenter: Niclas Berggren
Co-Author(s): Christian Bjørnskov
Discussant: Georgios Melios
Weather to Protest: The Effect of Black Lives Matter Protests on the 2020 Presidential Election
Presenter: Georgios Melios
Co-Author(s): Bouke Klein Teeselink
Discussant: Soeren Schwuchow
Transnational Diffusion of Identity Politics
Presenter: Soeren Schwuchow
Discussant: Niclas Berggren
Room: Railhead
Top-Down Governance
Session Chair:
Daniel Sutter
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The End of Anonymity and the Future of Liberty
Presenter: Daniel Sutter
Discussant: William Peirce
Spontaneous order: the neglected insights of Henry George
Presenter: William Peirce
Discussant: Lookman Issa
Explaining Corruption in Environmental Impact Assessment Process: From a Public Choice Analysis Perspective
Presenter: Lookman Issa
Discussant: Daniel Sutter
Platforms Pose a Problem for Regulating Industry Structure
Session Chair:
Michael Munger
Session Organizer:
Michael Munger
Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission
Presenter: Thomas Hazlett
Discussant: Lynne Kiesling
The Political Economy of Digital Energy Platforms
Presenter: Lynne Kiesling
Discussant: Michael Munger
A Good Industrial Policy is Impossible
Presenter: Michael Munger
Discussant: Thomas Hazlett
Room: Summit A
Institutional Paradoxes, Failure, and Mistakes 3 - Honoring Bernard Grofman
Session Chair:
Jac Heckelman
Session Organizer:
Marek Kaminski
State Pivotality and Battleground States in the U.S. Electoral College
Presenter: Zora Mihaley
Co-Author(s): Bernard Grofman
Discussant: Keith Dougherty
The Congressional Apportionment Game
Presenter: Keith Dougherty
Discussant: Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard
Redistricting: Squaring the Circle of Seemingly Incompatible Legal Standards
Presenter: Bernard Grofman
Seats, governments and butterfly effects: The relative arbitrariness of social choices in a parliamentary democracy
Presenter: Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard
Discussant: Zora Mihaley
Room: Rail Yard A
Pandemics Liberty and Public Choice
Session Chair:
Ravi Roy
Session Organizer:
Ryan Yonk
Monocentric Policy? Lessons from Covid 19 in Different
Presenter: Ryan Yonk
Co-Author(s): Amelia Janaskie
Discussant: Ravi Roy
Shared Mental Models and Covid 19 Policy
Presenter: Ravi Roy
Discussant: Peter Earle
Economic and Social Impacts of Covid-19 Response
Presenter: Peter Earle
Discussant: Nathan Goodman
After the Pandemic: The Long-Run Impact of Pandemics on Liberty
Presenter: Nathan Goodman
Discussant: Ryan Yonk
Room: Rail Yard B
Faith, Religion, and Buchanan
Session Chair:
Art Carden
Session Organizer:
Bonnie Wilson
Discussion, Dictation, and Decisions Among Natural Equals
Presenter: Art Carden
Co-Author(s): Jaime Carini and Nathanael Snow
Discussant: Anthony Gill
Three to Get Married? Religious Marriage as a Cooperative Game
Presenter: Clara Piano
Discussant: Jeremy Jackson
Limits on Methodological Individualism
Presenter: Catherine Pakaluk
Co-Author(s): Michael Pakaluk
Discussant: Ennio Piano
What Should Economists and Theologians Do?: James Buchanan's Political Economy and Christian Anthropology
Presenter: Anne Bradley
Discussant: Art Carden
Room: Rail Yard C
Applied Political Economy
Session Chair:
Bryan Cutsinger
Session Organizer:
Kevin Grier
A Theory of Social Praise
Presenter: Greg Caskey
Discussant: Wilson Whitener
Exploring Supply-Chain Network Formation: A Property Systems Approach
Presenter: Zachary Kessler
Discussant: Chandler Reilly
The Political Economy of Rising Defense Costs in the United States
Presenter: Chandler Reilly
Discussant: Zachary Kessler
Term Limits and Fiscal Policy in the United States
Presenter: Wilson Whitener
Co-Author(s): Bryan Cutsinger
Discussant: Greg Caskey
Room: North Coast A
Determinants and Consequences of Freedom
Session Chair:
Ingemar Bengtsson
Session Organizer:
Christian Bjørnskov
The Economic Impact of a Major Corruption Scandal in China: The Case of Heilongjiang
Presenter: Yang Zhou
Co-Author(s): Alberto Batinti, Jaime Bologna Pavlik
Discussant: Nabamita Dutta
Values, Beliefs and Opinions: How much do they matter for Economic Freedom
Presenter: Nabamita Dutta
Discussant: Ingemar Bengtsson
A Market for Citizenships – should Citizenship be Commodified?
Presenter: Ingemar Bengtsson
Discussant: Ricardo R. Noé
The Political Economy of Caudillismo: Property Rights, Autocratic Revenue Acquisition, and State Modernization
Presenter: Ricardo R. Noé
Discussant: Yang Zhou
Room: North Coast B
Public Choice and Externalities: The Governance of Complex Social Dilemmas
Session Chair:
Veeshan Rayamajhee
Session Organizer:
Pablo Paniagua
Coase, Buchanan, and the Ostroms on Externalities
Presenter: Veeshan Rayamajhee
Co-Author(s): Pablo Paniagua
Discussant: Vaughn Baltzly
Getting Clear on the Relation Between Public Goods and Externalities
Presenter: Vaughn Baltzly
Discussant: Jan Vogler
Managing Social and Economic Externalities: How Industrialization Led to the Rise of the Bureaucratic State
Presenter: Jan Vogler
Discussant: Glenn Furton
Pollution in Economics
Presenter: Glenn Furton
Co-Author(s): Larry Eubanks
Discussant: Veeshan Rayamajhee
Room: Railhead
Law and Economics
Session Chair:
Brian Meehan
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Marijuana Decriminalization and Traffic Stops
Presenter: Brian Meehan
Co-Author(s): Jake Weitkamp
Discussant: Jieon Shim
Are Lawyers Effective State Legislators? Evidence from North Carolina
Presenter: Jieon Shim
Discussant: Slade Mendenhall
A Theory of Special Legislation and its Decline
Presenter: Slade Mendenhall
Co-Author(s): Justin Callais
Discussant: Brian Meehan
Room: Piedmont
The Welfare State
Session Chair:
Gustavo de Souza
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
On the Political and Economic Determinants of Redistribution: Inequality, Ideology, or Religion?
Presenter: Gustavo de Souza
Discussant: Sarah Hakeem
Globalization, Democracy and Social Spending in Pakistan: A Time-Series Analysis, 1972-2018
Presenter: Sarah Hakeem
Co-Author(s): Saghir Pervaiz Ghauri; Anum Hayat
Discussant: Andreas Bergh
Fairness, flexibility and the far right: Understanding the relationship between populism, social spending and labor markets
Presenter: Andreas Bergh
Co-Author(s): Anders Kärnä
Discussant: Luke Petach
A Tullock Index for Assessing the Efficiency of Redistribution
Presenter: Luke Petach
Discussant: Gustavo de Souza
Room: Summit B
Teaching Public Choice
Session Chair:
Eric Alston
Session Organizer:
Adam Martin
Teaching Public Choice to Business School Freshmen
Presenter: Eric Alston
Teaching Public Choice in Public Finance
Presenter: Alicia Plemmons
Teaching Public Choice in Public Administration
Presenter: Ryan Yonk
Teaching Public Choice in Political Science
Presenter: Kevin Grier
Awards Luncheon and Business Meeting
Session Chair:
William Shughart
Session Organizer:
Edward Lopez
Society Announcements
Presenter: Edward Lopez
Presentation of Duncan Black Prize and Gordon Tullock Prize
Presenter: Peter Leeson
Presentation of the Elinor and Vincent Ostrom Prize for Best Combined Paper and Presentation by a Graduate Student
Presenter: David Skarbek
Presidential Address: On the Virginia School of Antitrust
Presenter: William Shughart
Public Goods
Session Chair:
Paul Pecorino
Session Organizer:
Paul Pecorino
An Examination of the Effect of Inequality on Lotteries for Funding Public Goods
Presenter: Christopher Oconnor
Co-Author(s): Li Zhang
Discussant: Paul Pecorino
Winners' Efforts in Multi-Battle Team Contests
Presenter: Stefano Barbieri
Co-Author(s): Marco Serena
Discussant: Christopher Oconnor
Public Good Provision with Redistributive Taxation
Presenter: Paul Pecorino
Discussant: Stefano Barbieri
Room: Summit B
Institutional Paradoxes, Failure, and Mistakes 2 - Honoring Nicholas Miller
Session Chair:
Marek Kaminski
Session Organizer:
Bonnie Wilson
Incumbent Vulnerability and Simpson's Paradox in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1952-2018
Presenter: Haotian Chen
Co-Author(s): Bernard Grofman, John Cuffe Haotian Chen
Discussant: Steven Linder
By-Mail Voting and the Primacy Effect
Presenter: Steven Linder
Discussant: Haotian Chen
Profile Dimensions for Positional System Immunity to the Borda Paradox
Presenter: Jac Heckelman
Discussant: Keith Dougherty
Is the Electoral College Biased Against Democrats?
Presenter: Nicholas Miller
Room: Summit C
Public Policy & Entrepreneurship
Session Chair:
Sven-Olov Daunfeldt
Session Organizer:
Daniel Bennett
Do Targeted R&D Grants Towards Potential High-Growth Firms Increase Employment and Demand for High Human Capital Workers?
Presenter: Sven-Olov Daunfeldt
Co-Author(s): Daniel Halvarsson, Patrik Gustavsson Tingvall, Alexander McKelvie
Discussant: Michael Araki
Greasing the Wheels of Growth: Reduced Enforceability of Noncompete Agreements as an External Enabler of High-Growth Entrepreneurship
Presenter: Michael Araki
Co-Author(s): Daniel Bennett, Gary Wagner
Discussant: Sven-Olov Daunfeldt
Online Reviews, Legitimacy, and (In)Formal Entrepreneurship
Presenter: Fabian Diaz
Discussant: Daniel Bennett
Room: Rail Yard A
The Political Economy of Crime and Punishment
Session Chair:
Antonella Bandiera
Session Organizer:
David Skarbek
Machine Gun Politics: Why Politicians Cooperate with Criminal Groups
Presenter: Jessie Bullock
Discussant: David Skarbek
Uprooting the Gang: Bargaining, Turf Warfare and Truce among Organized Criminal Groups
Presenter: Elena Barham
Co-Author(s): Sarah Daly
Discussant: David Skarbek
The Effect of Rents on Behavior: Evidence from Illegal Gold Mining in Peru
Presenter: Antonella Bandiera
Discussant: David Skarbek
Room: Rail Yard B
Economic Development and Computational Economics
Session Chair:
Justin Callais
Session Organizer:
Kevin Grier
A New Economic Cybernetics: Computational Frameworks for Analyzing Institutions Applied to Behavioral Macroeconomic Models
Presenter: Zachary Kessler
Discussant: Israt Jahan
The Political Economy of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Presenter: Greg Caskey
Discussant: Nicholas Reinarts
Can We Persist, Nevertheless? An Examination of Whether Social Trust Can Mitigate the Deleterious Effect of Political Instability on Economic Prosperity
Presenter: Nicholas Reinarts
Discussant: Zachary Kessler
Can constitutional changes and economic freedom predict future economic performance? A machine learning approach
Presenter: Israt Jahan
Discussant: Greg Caskey
Room: Rail Yard C
Entangled Political Economy
Session Chair:
Abigail Devereaux
Session Organizer:
Abigail Devereaux
The limits of control in the face of accelerating growth: an entangled political economy perspective
Presenter: Abigail Devereaux
Discussant: Jonathan Plante
Norms, Institutions and Digital Veils of Ignorance Do Network Protocols Even Need Trust?
Presenter: Eric Alston
Discussant: Michelle Vachris
Unleashing the Fiscal Commons: How Public Debt Creates a Transitional Gains Trap
Presenter: Jonathan Plante
Discussant: Abigail Devereaux
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Scotch Whisky Industry
Presenter: Michelle Vachris
Discussant: Eric Alston
Room: North Coast A
Policy Entrepreneurship & Uncertainty
Session Chair:
Nabamita Dutta
Session Organizer:
Fernando D'Andrea
Opportunity And Necessity Entrepreneurship: Do Linguistic Structures Matter?
Presenter: Nabamita Dutta
Co-Author(s): Thor Lienhard, Russell Sobel
Entrepreneurship & Policy-Derived Uncertainty
Presenter: Fernando D'Andrea
Socio-economic Status, Occupational Licensing and Firm Growth
Presenter: Shishir Shakya
Beyond Poverty and Prosperity: Chinese Institutional Uncertainty
Presenter: Qifan Chen
Co-Author(s): Mark Packard, Per Bylund
Room: North Coast B
Bureaucracies and Legislatures
Session Chair:
Olga Shanks
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Monitoring of Bureaucracy as a Public Good
Presenter: Olga Shanks
Co-Author(s): Stratmann, Thomas
Discussant: Masami Imai
Local Economic Impacts of Legislative Malapportionment
Presenter: Masami Imai
Discussant: Christoph Vanberg
Legislative bargaining with private information
Presenter: Christoph Vanberg
Co-Author(s): David Piazolo
Discussant: Olga Shanks
Public Choice Conundrums, Illusions, & Disappearing Acts
Session Chair:
Anthony Gill
Session Organizer:
Anthony Gill
The Libertarian Club Conundrum
Presenter: Anthony Gill
Discussant: Nathan Goodman
The grand (fiscal) illusion: property tax relief and educational spending in North Dakota
Presenter: Jeremy Jackson
Co-Author(s): Kole Nichols
Discussant: Anthony Gill
Whither the Will of the People?
Presenter: Cecil Bohanon
Discussant: Jeremy Jackson
Social Movements and the Market Process
Presenter: Nathan Goodman
Discussant: Cecil Bohanon
Room: Summit A
Institutional Paradoxes, Failure, and Mistakes 1 - Honoring Steven Brams
Session Chair:
Marek Kaminski
Session Organizer:
Bonnie Wilson
Primacy effects in open-list proportional representation systems
Presenter: Marek Kaminski
Co-Author(s): Jaroslaw Flis
Discussant: Ugurcan Evci
Choosing among the variety of proposed voting reforms
Presenter: Nicolaus Tideman
Discussant: Marek Kaminski
Shot in the Foot: Unintended Political Consequences of Electoral Engineering in the Turkish Parliamentary Elections in 2018
Presenter: Ugurcan Evci
Co-Author(s): Marek Kaminski
Discussant: Nicolaus Tideman
Reflection on Political Paradoxes
Presenter: Steven Brams
Room: Summit B
Roundtable: Reflections on Shared Mental Models: Symposium in Honor of Douglass C. North
Session Chair:
Arthur Denzau
Session Organizer:
Ravi Roy
Mental Models and Public Policy in the Pandemic Era
Presenter: Ryan Yonk
Discussant: Ravi Roy
Institutional Change and the Importance of Understanding Shared Mental Models
Presenter: William Shughart
Co-Author(s): Diana Thomas
Discussant: Ryan Yonk
Shared Belief Systems, The Basic Space and the Constrained Nature of Rationality in Judging Institutions
Presenter: Michael Munger
Discussant: Ravi Roy
Room: Rail Yard A
Political Economy of State Economic Development
Session Chair:
Donghyuk Kim
Session Organizer:
Peter Calcagno
Economic Spillovers and Political Payoffs in Government Competition for Firms: Evidence from the Kansas City Border War
Presenter: Donghyuk Kim
Discussant: Peter Calcagno
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Economic Development Incentives: The Case of District of Columbia
Presenter: Abraham Song
Discussant: Carlianne Patrick
The Distributional Effects of Targeted Economic Development Incentives
Presenter: Carlianne Patrick
Co-Author(s): Heather Stephens
Discussant: Russell Sobel
The Political Economy of State Economic Development Incentives: A Case of Rent Extraction
Presenter: Russell Sobel
Co-Author(s): Calcagno, Peter; Wagner, Gary
Discussant: Donghyuk Kim
Room: Rail Yard B
Constitutions, Organizations, and Governance
Session Chair:
Joshua Martin
Session Organizer:
Kevin Grier
Teachers’ Union Strength and School Reopening Decisions: Evidence from Connecticut during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Presenter: Joshua Martin
Co-Author(s): Zachary Porreca
Discussant: Israt Jahan
Do Constitutions Matter? A Causal Relationship between Constitutional Rights and Growth
Presenter: Israt Jahan
Discussant: Henry Moncrieff
Political Survival and Military Spending
Presenter: Henry Moncrieff
Discussant: Towhid Mahmood
Effects of Reference to Free Market & Market Competition in Constitution on Economic Freedom: A Causal Investigation
Presenter: Towhid Mahmood
Discussant: Joshua Martin
Room: Rail Yard C
A Roundtable on Public Choice and Women
Session Chair:
Roberta Herzberg
Session Organizer:
Roberta Herzberg
Public Choice of Pandemics: Impacts on Women
Presenter: Roberta Herzberg
Discussant: Jeanne Hoffman
Work-Life Imbalance Heightened by Covid. The influence of Female Economists: Evidence from Nobel Laureates' Work
Presenter: Jeanne Hoffman
Discussant: Darwyyn Deyo
Remember the Ladies: Women Cited in the Nobel Prize Lectures in Economics From 1969 to 2008.
Presenter: Darwyyn Deyo
Discussant: Roberta Herzberg
Room: North Coast A
Rent Seeking
Session Chair:
Jonathan Plante
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Public Debt and Budgetary Legislation as a Rent Creation and Extraction Process
Presenter: Jonathan Plante
Discussant: Vitor Melo
Assessing the Relationship Between Rent-Seeking and Economic Growth: New Empirical Advances
Presenter: Vitor Melo
Discussant: Stephen Miller
The Effects of Washington's Minimum Wage Increases: A Synthetic Control Approach
Presenter: Stephen Miller
Co-Author(s): Alvernaz, Michael
Discussant: Daniel Nientiedt
Hayek and Schmitt on the “Depoliticization” of the Economy
Presenter: Daniel Nientiedt
Discussant: Jonathan Plante
Room: North Coast B
Historical Political Economy
Session Chair:
Ennio Piano
Session Organizer:
Ennio Piano
The Best-Laid Plans: Subsidized Immigration in mid-19th Century French Algeria
Presenter: Theresa Finley
Discussant: Henry Thompson
Can Geography Explain Quebec's Historical Poverty?
Presenter: Louis Rouanet
Co-Author(s): Vincent Geloso
Discussant: Joshua Hendrickson
Taxation and National Defense, Revisited
Presenter: Joshua Hendrickson
Discussant: Louis Rouanet
Cosa Nostra Courts
Presenter: Henry Thompson
Discussant: Theresa Finley
Room: Railhead
Political Capitalism
Session Chair:
Miklos Rosta
Session Organizer:
Mehrdad Vahabi
Following Their Leaders: Political Preferences and Public Policy
Presenter: Randall Holcombe
Discussant: Judit Kalman
Unemployment Policy as Predation - Public Works Program in Hungary
Presenter: Judit Kalman
Discussant: Bálint Madlovics
Relational economics: from normatively to discretionally closed markets
Presenter: Bálint Madlovics
Discussant: Miklos Rosta
Predatory capitalism. Understanding property rights in hybrid regimes
Presenter: Miklos Rosta
Discussant: Randall Holcombe