2023 Public Choice Society, March 16-18, Seattle, Washington
- Thursday, March 16
- 1:00pm – 6:30pm
- 2:00pm – 3:30pm
- 4:00pm – 5:45pm
- 5:45pm – 7:15pm
- 7:15pm – 11:59pm
- Friday, March 17
- 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 – 11:59pm
- Saturday, March 18
- 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 – 2:45pm
- 2:50pm – 4:20pm *
- 4:20pm – 4:30pm
- 4:30pm – 6:00pm *
- 6:00pm – 7:30pm
- 7:30pm – 11:59pm
Friday, March 17, 2023
Institutions of Freedom
Session Chair:
Christian Bjørnskov
Session Organizer:
Christian Bjørnskov
Microfoundations of effects of economic freedom
Presenter: Dennis Coates
The Rule of Law Predicts Trust in Journalists and Scientists
Presenter: Niclas Berggren
Co-Author(s): Christian Bjornskov and Alexandra Sandstrom
Discussant: Dennis Coates
Room: Greenwood
Institutions: Past, Present, and Criminal
Session Chair:
Henry Thompson
Session Organizer:
Henry Thompson
Passing-the-Buck: Why Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta Will Exacerbate Indian Country's Public Safety Crisis
Presenter: Adam Crepelle
Discussant: Eric Alston
Police Unions Bargain For More than Money
Presenter: Eric Alston
Co-Author(s): Tate Fegley; Bryant Joachim Jackson-Green; Ilia Murtazashvili
Discussant: Jacob Hall
On the Road to the Nation-State: Itinerant Kingship in Medieval England
Presenter: Jacob Hall
Discussant: Henry Thompson
The Organization of Extortion
Presenter: Henry Thompson
Discussant: Adam Crepelle
Room: Kirkland
Law and Economics 2
Session Chair:
Jason Aimone
Session Organizer:
Bryan McCannon
Chicken Tournaments
Presenter: Joy Kanengiser
Co-Author(s): Kole Reddig
Discussant: Bryan McCannon
Three Golden Balls: Pawn Shops and Crime
Presenter: Bryan McCannon
Co-Author(s): Zach Porreca
Discussant: Jason Aimone
Prosecutorial Discretion: A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation
Presenter: Jason Aimone
Co-Author(s): Stanton Hudja
Discussant: Toshihiro Ihori
Misestimation of Danger and Collective Risk Management in the Context of COVID-19
Presenter: Toshihiro Ihori
Co-Author(s): Shintaro Nakagawa
Discussant: Joy Kanengiser
Room: Capitol Hill
Economic Development and Economic Calculation
Session Chair:
Julia Norgaard
Session Organizer:
Thomas Stratmann
Ecological Rationality & The Common Law: Examining the burden of proof for new regulations based on behavioral economics
Presenter: Alexander Cartwright
Discussant: Scott Burns
Is Economic Growth Special to Special Economic Zones?
Presenter: Scott Burns
Co-Author(s): Caleb Fuller
Discussant: Julia Norgaard
Is Economic Growth Special to Special Economic Zones?
Presenter: Julia Norgaard
Co-Author(s): Alexander C. Cartwright
Discussant: Alexander Cartwright
Room: Leschi
Firms, Organizations, and Property Rights
Session Chair:
Louis Rouanet
Session Organizer:
Louis Rouanet
Employee vs. Independent Worker: A Framework for Understanding Work Differences
Presenter: Paola Suarez
Co-Author(s): Liya Palagashvili, Clara Piano
Discussant: Doug Allen
On the efficiency of representative institutions: The case of the Italian communes
Presenter: Ennio Piano
Discussant: Paasha Mahdavi
A firm-centered theory of climate disclosure: Risk reporting and time horizons in the oil industry
Presenter: Paasha Mahdavi
Discussant: Paola Suarez
On the complexity of Property Rights
Presenter: Doug Allen
Co-Author(s): Yoram Barzel
Discussant: Ennio Piano
Room: Issaquah
Institutional Paradoxes, Failure, and Mistakes 1 - Honoring Peter C. Ordeshook
Session Chair:
Marek Kaminski
Session Organizer:
Marek Kaminski
The Toss of a Coin: Electoral Policymaking in Turkey from 1980 to 2018
Presenter: Ugurcan Evci
Discussant: Keith Dougherty
The Effect of Congressional Apportionment on U.S. Presidential Elections
Presenter: Keith Dougherty
Discussant: Maria Gallego
Modelling the influence of campaign contributions and advertising on Presidential elections
Presenter: Maria Gallego
Discussant: Ugurcan Evci
Why is political science not a science?
Presenter: Peter Ordeshook
Discussant: Maria Gallego
Room: Ballard
Political Economy and Policy
Session Chair:
Ryan Yonk
Session Organizer:
Ryan Yonk
Chinese Antitrust: Politics or Economics?
Presenter: Ethan Yang
Discussant: Amelia Janaskie
The Fiscal Illusion of AI-Driven Fiscal Policy Solutions
Presenter: Amelia Janaskie
Discussant: Filippo Pavesi
Narratives and Policy Opinions: a Survey Experiment
Presenter: Filippo Pavesi
Co-Author(s): Antinyan, Armenak; Bassetti, Thomas; Corazzini, Luca; Pavesi, Filippo
Discussant: Ethan Yang
Room: Medina
Effects of Regulation on Business Success
Session Chair:
Sriparna Ghosh
Session Organizer:
Alicia Plemmons
Occupational Licensing and Employment: A Cross-Border Comparison of Licensed and Unlicensed Industries
Presenter: Walker Rhine
Discussant: Sriparna Ghosh
The Political Economy of CON Law Boards
Presenter: Sriparna Ghosh
Co-Author(s): Matthew Mitchell
Discussant: Brian Mulligan
Perspectives from Elite Executives on Rightsizing Regulations for Business Performance
Presenter: Brian Mulligan
Co-Author(s): Granados, Nelson, Ph.D.
Discussant: Sriparna Ghosh
Room: Metropolitan Ballroom A
Roundtable on Public Choice Research in Latin America
Session Chair:
David Skarbek
Session Organizer:
Edward Lopez
Remarks
Presenter: Robin Grier
Remarks: Populism as a unifying Public Choice theme in Latin America
Presenter: Nicolas Cachanosky
Remarks
Presenter: Lenore Ealy
Remarks: Setting the foundations for teaching Public Choice in Latin America through the Centro para el Análisis de las Decisiones Públicas (CADEP)
Presenter: Carroll Ríos Arathoon
Plenary Session 2 with Jennifer Murtazashvili on Decentralization and Conflict
Session Chair:
David Skarbek
Session Organizer:
David Skarbek
Decentralization and Conflict: Lessons from Afghanistan, Ukraine and Beyond
Presenter: Jennifer Murtazashvili
Modeling Social Choice Rules and Their Effects
Session Chair:
Bernard Grofman
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
... And the Rule Matters! A Comparison of Preference Elicitation Methods and Voting Rules
Presenter: Christian Klamler
Co-Author(s): Darmann, Andreas
Detecting Gerrymandering in Multiparty Elections
Presenter: Dariusz Stolicki
Co-Author(s): Słomczyński, Wojciech
Discussant: Bernard Grofman
Swing Models for Seats and Votes
Presenter: Bernard Grofman
Co-Author(s): Wilson, Mark
Discussant: Christian Klamler
Room: Medina
Institutions and Regulation
Session Chair:
Vincent Carret
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
European internet regulation: a public choice explanation
Presenter: Bartek Chomanski
Discussant: W. Benedikt Schmal
Governing the Cartels - an Institutional Exploration
Presenter: W. Benedikt Schmal
Discussant: Vincent Carret
Distribution of Power and Ordered Competition in the European Coal and Steel Community
Presenter: Vincent Carret
Discussant: Bartek Chomanski
Room: Greenwood
Models of Rent-Seeking and Lobbying
Session Chair:
Theo Simon
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Low Clearance: A Rent-Seeking Model of the Market for Security Clearances
Presenter: Caleb Petitt
Co-Author(s): Tegan Truitt
Discussant: Shane Sanders
Private Regulation of Free Ridership in Contest Alliances
Presenter: Shane Sanders
Discussant: Randall Holcombe
The transformative impact of rent-seeking theory on the study of public choice
Presenter: Randall Holcombe
Discussant: Theo Simon
The Nature of the Lobby. A Transaction Cost Approach to the Process of Lobbyism
Presenter: Theo Simon
Co-Author(s): Goldschmidt, Nils
Discussant: Caleb Petitt
Room: Kirkland
Formal Political Economy Theory
Session Chair:
Vlad Tarko
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Effect of Election on Political Preferences
Presenter: Siyu Wang
Co-Author(s): Stratmann, Thomas
Discussant: Steven Beckman
Absolute Monopoly Power: Life and Death at the Margin
Presenter: Steven Beckman
Co-Author(s): Smith, W. James
Discussant: Vlad Tarko
Social Norms, Personal Identity, and Rational Choice
Presenter: Vlad Tarko
Discussant: Siyu Wang
Room: Capitol Hill
Historical Political Economy II
Session Chair:
Robert Fleck
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Did the 'Quiet Revolution' Really Change Anything?
Presenter: Chandler Reilly
Co-Author(s): Geloso, Vincent
Discussant: Sean-Patrick Alvarez
Restricting Manumission in the Antebellum South: Evidence from Slave State Legislatures
Presenter: Sean-Patrick Alvarez
Co-Author(s): Piano, Ennio
Discussant: Chandler Reilly
Room: Ravenna
Legal Institutions in Game-Theoretic Models
Session Chair:
Lottte Swank
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The puppeteer's dilemma: loyalty, endogenous authority, and indirect rule
Presenter: Benjamin Broman
Discussant: Georg Vanberg
Judicial Power and Judicial Independence: A Tale of Three Paths
Presenter: Georg Vanberg
Co-Author(s): Broman, Benjamin
Discussant: Caterina Chiopris
Social Networks and the Origins of State Capacity: Evidence from Early Modern Venice
Presenter: Caterina Chiopris
Co-Author(s): Wang, Yuhua
Discussant: Benjamin Broman
Room: Issaquah
Labor, Occupational Regulation, and Economic Welfare
Session Chair:
Alicia Plemmons
Session Organizer:
Alicia Plemmons
Indexing States' Propensity to Bar Entry: a New Occupational Licensing Index
Presenter: Noah Trudeau
Co-Author(s): Edward Timmons
Discussant: Agnitra Roy Choudhury
Access to Mental Health Care Services: Evidence Using Gun Violence
Presenter: Agnitra Roy Choudhury
Co-Author(s): Shishir Shakya
Discussant: Kihwan Bae
Exploring the effects of occupational licensing on wage inequality in the U.S.
Presenter: Kihwan Bae
Co-Author(s): Conor Norris and Edward Timmons
Discussant: Noah Trudeau
Room: Leschi
Political Economy of Conflict and Crime
Session Chair:
Lucas Rentschler
Session Organizer:
Bryan McCannon
The Crime Effect of Refugees
Presenter: Naci Mocan
Discussant: Lucas Rentschler
Dispute Resolution in the Signaling Model
Presenter: Paul Pecorino
Co-Author(s): Michael Solomon, Mark Van Boening
Discussant: Naci Mocan
How policing incentives affect crime, measurement, and justice
Presenter: Lucas Rentschler
Co-Author(s): Jordan Adamson
Discussant: Georgios Marios Bantis
Felon Enfranchisement’s Effect on Municipal Public Finance
Presenter: Georgios Marios Bantis
Discussant: Paul Pecorino
Room: Metropolitan Ballroom A
Eighth Annual Elinor and Vincent Ostrom Prize for Best Combined Paper and Presentation by a Graduate Student (Finalists TBD)
Session Chair:
David Skarbek
Session Organizer:
Edward Lopez
Immigration and Income Inequality in the United States
Presenter: Francisco Alberto Castellanos Sosa
Discussant: Paola Suarez
The Toss of a Coin: Electoral Policymaking in Turkey from 1980 to 2018
Presenter: Ugurcan Evci
Discussant: Christian Bjørnskov
Singapore: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the State
Presenter: Tegan Truitt
Discussant: Ennio Piano
Tax Policy and its Consequences
Session Chair:
William B. Hankins
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Economic Forecasts and Executive Approval
Presenter: Luis Aguiar-Conraria
Co-Author(s): Magalhães, Pedro; Fernandes, Bruno
Discussant: Nila Zarepour Arizi
Sanctions, Taxes, and Regime Survival in Autocracies
Presenter: Nila Zarepour Arizi
Discussant: William B. Hankins
Partisan Politics and Excise Tax Rates in the United States
Presenter: William B. Hankins
Discussant: Luis Aguiar-Conraria
Room: Capitol Hill
Voting and Voters
Session Chair:
Alexander Billy
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Do Voters Punish or Reward Agenda Setters? Evidence from Local Elections
Presenter: Walter Melnik
Discussant: Robert Ainsworth
District competitiveness increases voter turnout: evidence from repeated redistricting in North Carolina
Presenter: Robert Ainsworth
Co-Author(s): Garcia Munoz, Emanuel; Munoz Gomez, Andres
Discussant: Alexander Billy
Felony Financial Disenfranchisement
Presenter: Alexander Billy
Co-Author(s): Bagwe, Gaurav, Sukhatme, Neel
Discussant: Walter Melnik
Room: Medina
Externality
Session Chair:
Elena Prenovitz
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Intellectual Property and the Governance of Nested Externalities
Presenter: Otto Lehto
Co-Author(s): Goodman, Nathan
Discussant: Elena Prenovitz
Can one man's trash be another man's treasure?
Presenter: Elena Prenovitz
Co-Author(s): Hazlett, Peter; Reilly, Chandler
Discussant: Otto Lehto
Room: Ravenna
Beyond Standard Models of Parties and Voters
Session Chair:
Anders Kärnä
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Spoilers and Spoiler-Proofness in Multiwinner Party Elections
Presenter: Dariusz Stolicki
Co-Author(s): Boratyn, Daria; Słomczyński, Wojciech, Szufa, Stanislaw
Discussant: Alexander Taylor
Monumental Effects: Confederate Monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South
Presenter: Alexander Taylor
Discussant: Jarosław Flis
Tug of war – on factors driving the strength of radical political parties
Presenter: Jarosław Flis
Co-Author(s): Kotnarowski, Michał
Discussant: Dariusz Stolicki
Room: Greenwood
Education and Political Economy
Session Chair:
Maria Tackett
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Detriments of the Legislative Pendulum: An Empirical Case Study of Proposition 57
Presenter: Rainita Narender
Co-Author(s): DeAngelo, Greg; Quandt, Ryan; Yun, Minjae
Discussant: Sean-Patrick Alvarez
The Itch & the Razor War: The Political Economy of U.S. Barber Licensure in the Progressive Era
Presenter: Sean-Patrick Alvarez
Co-Author(s): Smith, Daniel J.; Scheck, Macy
Discussant: Haibin Jiang
How Does Integrated Student Support Intervention Help Middle school Students During School Transition?
Presenter: Haibin Jiang
Co-Author(s): Khanani, Noman; Leigh, Yan; Raczek, Stacey; Walsh, Mary
Discussant: Maria Tackett
Female Education in the Times of Peace
Presenter: Maria Tackett
Discussant: Rainita Narender
Room: Kirkland
Institutional Analysis: Energy and Environment
Session Chair:
Labanyalata Roy
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Regulatory Capture and Obsolete Regulation
Presenter: Timothy Fitzgerald
Discussant: Labanyalata Roy
Efficacy of direct democracy: Impact of Community Choice Aggregation programs on low-income communities in US
Presenter: Labanyalata Roy
Co-Author(s): Roy, Labanyalata
Discussant: Rimvydas Baltaduonis
Behavioral Interventions and Market Efficiency: A Case of a Volatile Retail Electricity Market
Presenter: Rimvydas Baltaduonis
Co-Author(s): Jaraitė, Jūratė; Kažukauskas, Andrius
Discussant: Timothy Fitzgerald
Room: Leschi
Comparative Political Institutions
Session Chair:
Richard Jankowski
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Political Scandal and Party Governance
Presenter: Slade Mendenhall
Discussant: Tegan Truitt
Singapore: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the State
Presenter: Tegan Truitt
Discussant: Rachel Sweet
Creating Terror: The Politics of (Mis)Information in Civil War Violence
Presenter: Rachel Sweet
Discussant: Richard Jankowski
The Impact of Military Technology on Political Institutions: A Test of the Selectorate Model
Presenter: Richard Jankowski
Discussant: Slade Mendenhall
Room: Metropolitan Ballroom A
History of Political Economy
Session Chair:
Phil Magness
Session Organizer:
Ryan Yonk
True believers” and Tocqueville: towards a public choice theory of the revolutionary Vanguard
Presenter: Walker Haskins
Discussant: Robertas Bakula
Economic Calculation in Centralized Private Sector Planning
Presenter: Robertas Bakula
Discussant: Garion Frankel
Old Kinderhook and Civic Integration in America
Presenter: Garion Frankel
Discussant: Walker Haskins
Room: Ballard
Customary Authority, Indigenism, and the Governance of the Commons
Session Chair:
Lenore Ealy
Session Organizer:
Santiago Fernández Ordóñez
Native American Tribal Governments and the Decline of Customary Authority in Governance: Evidence from the Navajo Nation
Presenter: Ryan Yonk
Explaining the Resurgence of Customary Order
Presenter: Jennifer Murtazashvili
Public Choice and the Constitutionalization of Indigenous Law in Latin America
Presenter: Daniel Rodríguez-Carreiro
Political Economy and Health
Session Chair:
Rimvydas Baltaduonis
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Starving for Information? An Experiment in Willingness to Pay for Nutritional Attributes
Presenter: Amberly Dozier
Discussant: Mohammed Alaohaid
Certificate of Need Laws impact on Organ Transplantation Centers in the U.S.
Presenter: Mohammed Alaohaid
Discussant: Tomi Ovaska
The Drug Overdose Death Epidemic: Evidence from U.S. Counties
Presenter: Tomi Ovaska
Co-Author(s): Sumell, Albert; Uppal, Yogesh
Discussant: Rimvydas Baltaduonis
The Role of Price Transparency and Mandatory Insurance in Determining Healthcare Prices
Presenter: Rimvydas Baltaduonis
Co-Author(s): Cushing-Daniels, Brendan; Petkov, Tsvetomir
Discussant: Amberly Dozier
Room: Greenwood
Constitutions and Legitimacy
Session Chair:
Israt Jahan
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Persistent Public Debt as a Constitutional Choice
Presenter: Jonathan Plante
Discussant: Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska
Economic Effects of (Non)Compliance with Constitutions
Presenter: Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska
Co-Author(s): Lewczuk, Anna
Discussant: Edwar Escalante
Friends or foes? The insurgent’s dilemma of seeking legitimacy while keeping secrets
Presenter: Edwar Escalante
Discussant: Israt Jahan
Constitutional Rights, Economic Freedom, and Inequality
Presenter: Israt Jahan
Discussant: Jonathan Plante
Room: Kirkland
Political Economy and Climate Change
Session Chair:
Lookman Issa
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The Political Economy of a Development and Climate policy - Challenges for an Emission Trading Scheme as Development and Climate Policy Tool
Presenter: Sebastian Schuhmann
Co-Author(s): Freytag, Andreas; Menter, Matthias, Montag, Hauke
Discussant: Lookman Issa
Climate Policy capture by interest groups- a public choice explanation
Presenter: Lookman Issa
Discussant: Sebastian Schuhmann
Room: Leschi
Networks and Public Goods
Session Chair:
Matteo Pazzona
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Assessing the Political Motivations Behind Ransomware Attacks
Presenter: Karen Nershi
Co-Author(s): Grossman, Shelby
Discussant: Matteo Pazzona
Private Provision of Public Goods: the case of the Private UK Security Sector
Presenter: Matteo Pazzona
Discussant: Karen Nershi
Room: Ravenna
Civil Society as Collective Choice
Session Chair:
Bonnie Wilson
Session Organizer:
Bonnie Wilson
The Constitutional Choice Architecture of Civil Society
Presenter: Emily Skarbek
Discussant: Clara Piano
Economic Freedom and the Fertility Gap
Presenter: Clara Piano
Co-Author(s): Lyman Stone
Discussant: Anthony Gill
Religion, Civil Society Governance, and Public Choice
Presenter: Anthony Gill
Discussant: Emily Skarbek
Room: Capitol Hill
The Political Economy of State Interventions on Marginalized Communities
Session Chair:
Darwyyn Deyo
Session Organizer:
Thomas Stratmann
The History of Healthcare Licensing and its Effects for Marginalized Communities
Presenter: Alicia Plemmons
Discussant: Darwyyn Deyo
The Burden of Occupational Regulation on Women-Driven Industries
Presenter: Darwyyn Deyo
Co-Author(s): Alicia Plemmons
Discussant: Amy Eremionkhale
State Intervention vs. Free State: A consideration of this debate from the perspective of Racial (In)Equity
Presenter: Amy Eremionkhale
Discussant: Anna Chorniy
More Money, Fewer Problems? The Effect of Foster Care Payments on Children’s Quality of Care
Presenter: Anna Chorniy
Co-Author(s): Christopher Mills
Discussant: Alicia Plemmons
Room: Ballard
Institutional Paradoxes, Failure, and Mistakes 2 - Honoring Donald G. Saari
Session Chair:
Marek Kaminski
Session Organizer:
Marek Kaminski
How to design elections for the inclusion of more candidates and more voters
Presenter: Wesley Holliday
Co-Author(s): Eric Pacuit
Discussant: Marcelo Maciel
Majoritarian principles and critical junctures: an analysis of Brazil's 2018 presidential election
Presenter: Marcelo Maciel
Discussant: Marek Kaminski
Coordination not consolidation: Duverger's Law works ... sort of.
Presenter: Marek Kaminski
Co-Author(s): Jarosław Flis
Discussant: Wesley Holliday
The dark side of voting! What causes those voting paradoxes?
Presenter: Donald Saari
Discussant: Marcelo Maciel
Room: Medina
Regulation and Individual Decision-Making
Session Chair:
Yang Zhou
Session Organizer:
Bryan McCannon
Matching in Marital Financial Information
Presenter: Florence Neymotin
Co-Author(s): Baek, H. Young; Chenail, Ronald; Neymotin, Florence
Discussant: Yang Zhou
AACSB Accreditation and Student Demand
Presenter: Kat Starr
Co-Author(s): Marisa Cameron
Discussant: Vitor Melo
Introducing an Index of Healthcare Regulation
Presenter: Vitor Melo
Co-Author(s): Patrick McLaughlin
Discussant: Kat Starr
Languages, Ideologies, and Collective Action Problems
Presenter: Yang Zhou
Co-Author(s): Dutta, Nabamita; Matti, Josh; Zhou, Yang
Discussant: Daniel Benjamin
Room: Metropolitan Ballroom A
Author Meets Critics: Let the People Rule by John Matsusaka
Session Chair:
Ekkehard Koehler
Session Organizer:
David Skarbek
Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Populist Challenge
Presenter: John Matsusaka
Remarks for the Author
Presenter: Ekkehard Koehler
Remarks for the Author
Presenter: Info at Public Choice Society
Remarks for the Author
Presenter: Lars P. Feld