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Public Choice Society Annual Meeting

San Antonio, Texas
   March 6 –9, 2005

2008 Annual Meeting  
Provisional Sessions program
Assignments program
Papers list of papers
Participants participants list
 
 Papers
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Last Name  First Name  Title  Coauthors 
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Abrams  Burt  Does the Fed Contribute to a Political Business Cycle?  Plamen Iossifov 
Ahrens  Joachim  The Perspectives of Common Policies in an Increasingly Heterogeneous European Union  Renate Ohr
Goetz Zeddies 
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Barrett  Richard  Rational Defence Expenditure: The Case of South Asia  Saadet Deger
Somnath Sen 
Berggren  Niclas  Legal Positivism, Constitutionalism, and Property Rights   
Bergh  Andreas  Time to Abandon the Self-Interested Utility Function? A Critical Note on the Theory of Inequity Aversion   
Bjrrnskov  Christian  Can Bribes Buy Protection Against International Competition?   
Brevik  Frode  Partisan Theory and the New Keynesian and Sticky-Information Phillips Curves  Manfred Gärtner 
Butterfield  William  Facilitate Institutional Development, Win a Prize! How the World Bank and Other Donors Could Help Overcome Barriers to Growth   
C     to top of page
Caballero  Gonzalo  The Quality of Institutions: A Genetic Programming Approach  Marcos Álvarez-Díaz 
Cech  Roman  Equilibrium Model of Voter Participation   
Cengelci  Murat Ali  Simple Collective Identity Functions  M. Remzi Sanver 
Chang  Jannet  Costly Voting: Voter Composition and Turnout  Ronald Stauber 
Coats  Morris  And the Beat Goes on: Voting and Abstaining on the Form of County Governance Systems  G`khan Karahan
William F. Shughart II 
Crutzen  Benoit  On the Role of the Intra-Party Agency Problem in Shaping Rent Extraction across Electoral Rules   
D     to top of page
Dari-Mattiacci  Giuseppe  Seeking Rents in the Shadow of Coase  Sander Onderstal
Francesco Parisi 
Dellis  Arnaud  Would Letting People Vote for Several Candidates Yield Policy Moderation?   
Dogan  Emre  Arrovian Impossibilities in Aggregating Preferences Over Sets  M. Remzi Sanver 
Dougherty  Keith  Rationality and the Pareto Optimality of Unanimity Rule  Julian Edward 
Duquette  Chris  Does Money Buy Elections? Evidence from Races for Open Seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1990-2004   
E     to top of page
Enis  Charles  The Relative Impacts of Adaptive Expectations and Economic Constructs on Savings Behavior: Evidence from IRAs   
Eusepi  Giuseppe  How to Make a Dis-Entrepreneur of the Schumpeterian Entrepreneur: The Impact of Institutional Settings on Growth Models  Edgar J. Wilson 
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Feldmann  Horst  Government Size and Unemployment: Evidence from Industrial Countries   
Fischer  Justina  The Impact of Direct Democracy on Sentencing Behavior   
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Gentier  Antoine  The question of the rent dissipation in the notes issuance activity: the case of the Italian banking system before the creation of the Bank of Italy  Giuseppina Gianfreda
Nathalie Janson 
Gick  Wolfgang  When Should You Wear Polka Dots? Strategic Information Transmission in a Visual Disclosure Game with Multiple Senders  Evelyn Gick 
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Hill  Sarah  Education Finance Reform and Public School Expenditure  D. Roderick Kiewiet 
Ho  Yi-Cheng  The Relationship between the Financial Performance of Government Trust Fund, Flexible Financing Scheme, Discretion and Political Party: A Study of U.S. Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund  Jenn-Shyong Kuo
Kohsin Chin 
Hoffmann  Magnus  Enforcement of Property Rights in a Barter Exchange   
Holcombe  Randy  Policy Errors in Executive and Legislative Decision Making   
Hosoe  Moriki  Comparative Analysis of Governance Structure under Alternative Politician-Bureaucratic Relations  Masayuki Kanazaki 
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Jankowski  Richard  The Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: Public Interest Groups and the Collective Action Problem - A Test   
Javoronkov  Sergei  Democratic Institution Building under the Fire  Konstantin Yanovskiy
Ilia Zatkovecky 
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Kaniovski  Serguei  Community Size, Heterogeneity and Voter Turnouts  Dennis C. Mueller 
Kenny  Larry  The Influence of the Elderly on School Spending in a Median Voter Framework  Deborah Fletcher 
Kiefer  David  Endogenous Stabilization in the Open Economy   
Kilgour  Marc  How to Elect a Representative Committee Using Approval Balloting  Steven J. Brams
M. Remzi Sanver 
Kim  Jin-Hyuk  A Welfare Analysis of Mixed-Member Electoral System   
Kirchgässner  Gebhard  On the Relation between Government Size and Economic Development: Some Methodological and Economic Remarks   
Klamler  Christian  The Traveling Group Problem  Ulrich Pferschy 
Kuo  Jenn-Shyong  Board Competition and Community Benefit Expenditures of Nonprofit Hospitals  Yi-Cheng Ho 
L     to top of page
Lacombe  Donald  Accounting for Spatial Error Correlation in the 2004 Presidential Popular Vote  Timothy M. Shaughnessy 
Lakomaa  Erik  Can Behavioural Economics Improve the Understanding of Politics?   
Leech  Dennis  Voting Power Implications of a Unified European Representation at the IMF  Robert Leech 
Levy  David  Public Choice and the Expert  Sandra J. Peart 
Lucinda  Claudio Ribeiro  Did the Adjustments Preserve the Ideological Preferences on Expenditures? An Investigation on the Brazilian States  George Avelino Filho
Paulo Roberto Arvate 
M     to top of page
Marktanner  Marcus  Politcal Regime, Economic Structure, and Political-Economic Empowerment   
Matsusaka  John  Public Choice Principles of Redistricting  Thomas W. Gilligan 
Matthews  Michelle  New Evidence on the "Small-State Bias" in Federal Spending  William F. Shughart
Taylor P. Stevenson 
Mayr  Karin  Immigration and Public Spending  René Böheim 
Mazali  Rogério  Optimal Taxation of Status Goods  José A. Rodrigues-Neto 
Mehta  Nimai  The Preference Bias in Sanitation: Explaining Failures in Public Provision   
Méon  Pierre-Guillaume  Is Corruption an Efficient Grease? A Cross-Country Aggregate Analysis  Laurent Weill 
Mitchell  Matthew  A Median Voter Theorem for the Supreme Court: The Effect of an Imminent Vacancy on the Voting Pattern of Justices   
Moussalli  Stephanie  The Leviathan Dynamic of Statehood: The Fiscal Effects of Statehood in New Mexico and Arizona   
N     to top of page
Nalepa  Monika  The Problem of Credible Commitments in Transitions to Democracy   
O     to top of page
Orrison  Michael  Spectral Analysis of the Supreme Court  Brian L. Lawson
David T. Uminsky 
P     to top of page
Pallesen  Thomas  The Impact of Changing Matching Grants to Lump-Sum Subsidies: Evidence from Danish Local Governments   
Palombo  Paulo Eduardo Moledo  Institutional Changes, Fiscal Restriction and the Size of the Subnational Governments in Brazil   
Pecorino  Paul  Import Protection Bias   
Pereira  Rodrigo  A New Measurement of Tax Progressivity  Makoto Kakinaka 
Potthoff  Dick  Could Either a 1911 Relic or Integer Programming Prevent a Disastrous (Albeit Unlikely) Electoral-College Brouhaha?   
R     to top of page
Rainer  Ilia  The Modern Impact of Precolonial Centralization in Africa  Nicola Gennaioli 
Ramírez  Carlos  Legislator Ideology and the Business Cycle  Edward J. López 
Rodríguez  Francisco  How Important Is the Credibility Problem in Politics? Evidence from State-Level Abortion Legislation   
Rogers  James  Resurrecting Lochner: A Defense of Unprincipled Judicial Activism  Georg Vanberg 
Rumi  Cecilia  Electoral Cycles in Federal Transfers: Evidence from Argentina   
S     to top of page
Sahuguet  Nicolas  Party Governance and Political Competition  Micael Castanheira
Benoit S.Y. Crutzen 
Sanver  M. Remzi  Voting Systems That Combine Approval and Preference  Steven J. Brams 
Schaltegger  Christoph  Are Fiscal Adjustments Less Successful in Decentralized Governments?  Lars P. Feld 
Schap  David  The Collateral Source Rule: A Common Law Norm under Special Interest Attack  Andrew Feeley 
Schneider  Fritz  Corruption and the Shadow Economy: An Empirical Analysis  Axel Dreher 
Schnellenbach  Jan  Rent Extraction, Political Institutions, and the Centralisation of Public Goods Provision   
Schubert  Christian  A Note on the Principle of "Normative Individualism"   
Schwarz  Mordechai  Invariance of Performance to Contest Segmentation  Gil S. Epstein
Schmuel Nitzan 
Seeler  Erika  Managing Nuclear Proliferation: The Role of Reputation Effects   
Siemers  Lars-H.R.  Should I Stay or Should I Go? Smoking and Social Interaction  Panu Poutvaara 
Siqueira  Kevin  Terrorists Versus the Government: Strategic Interaction, Support, and Sponsorship  Todd Sandler 
Stähler  Nikolai  Employment Protection in an Unionized Economy with Search Frictions   
Su  Francis  Set Intersections, Perfect Graphs, and Voting in Agreeable Societies  Deborah E. Berg
Serguei Norine
Robin Thomas
Paul Wollan 
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Talpos  Ioan  Agency versus Associations in the Social Allocation of the Resources: The Oasis Theory  Bogdan Dima
Mihai Mutascu
Cosmin Enache
Valentin Munteanu 
Thompson  Earl  A Rational Alternative to the Social Contract Theory of Government and Correspondingly New Theory of Optimal Government   
Tideman  Nicolaus  Impartial Division of a Dollar  Geoffroy De Clippel
HerveMoulin 
Torgler  Benno  Does Envy Destroy the Fundaments of Society? The Impact of the Relative Income Position on Social Capital  Justina A.V. Fischer 
Tower  Ed  House of Representatives' Votes on Medical Marijuana Roll Call of 2004: Ideology or Influence?  Omer Gokcekus
Matthew Tolnick 
Tullock  Gordon  Objectives of Foreign Policy   
Tyszler  Marcelo  Strategic Use of Fiscal Deficit: A Replication of an Experimental Study and Further Analysis   
U     to top of page
Ueda  Yoshifumi  The Rational Foundations of the Shinto and Bushido   
V     to top of page
Vanberg  Christoph  Is a Candidate's Reliance on Large Contributions Negatively Related to Public Support   
Vietze  Christoph  International Tourism, Development and Biodiversity: First Evidence  Andreas Freytag 
W     to top of page
Wenzel  Nikolai  Postmodernism and Its Discontents: Whither Constitutionalism after God and Reason?   
Widgrén  Mika  The European Commission: Appointment, Preferences, and Institutional Relations  Stefan Napel 
Winer  Stanley  Supply versus Demand and the Rule of Ideology in the Growth of Government: The United States, 1930-2002  Michael Tofias
Bernard Grofman
John Aldrich 
Wooders  Myrna  Correlated equilibrium and behavioral conformity  Edward Cartwright 
Y     to top of page
Yanovskiy  Konstantin  Choice of Institutions and Economic Growth: Evidence from Transitional Economics  Sergei Javoronkov
Cerny Dmitry 
Yeoh  Melissa  Recidivism Revisited at the Antitrust Division since December 1994   
Yoon  Yong  Rent Seeking and the Extent of the Market   
Yoon  Yong  Public Choice and the Extent of the Market  James M. Buchanan