Friday 8:00 - 9:45 a.m. |
Session 8A Tax Policy I |
Session Chairs: |
Robert A. Collinge, University of Texas - San Antonio |
Papers: |
"Understanding Cigarette Tax Setting: The Competing Forces of Median Voter and Interest Groups" "Can Environmental Taxes Complement Federal Tax Reform?" "Taxable Income Elasticity and social Security Payroll Taxes" "Constitutions and Pollution Taxation" |
Discussants: |
Stephanie M. Brewer, Indiana University of Pennsylvania |
Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 a.m. |
Session 101G Regulation, Utilities, and Transportation |
Session Chairs: |
Richard Cox, University of Arkansas - Little Rock |
Papers: |
"Internet Telephony--Issues of Fiscal Federalism and Growth-Oriented Policy" "Do Low-Quality Products Affect High-Quality Entry? Multiproduct Firms and Nonstop Entry in Airline Markets" "Offer Curve Behavior by Merchant Plants in Electric Utility Regional Transmission Organizations" "Estimating the Demand for Cellular Phone Services With Termination-Based Price Discrimination" |
Discussants: |
Dongsoo Shin, Santa Clara University |
Saturday 2:15 - 4:00 p.m. |
Session 142K Environmental Economics II |
Session Chairs: |
Michele T. Villinski, DePauw University |
Papers: |
"Toxic Chemical Releases, Health Effects, and Work Loss" "An Experiment on a Psycho-Economic Model of Donation Behavior for Rainforest Conservation" "An Evaluation of Benefit Transfers of Choice Model Estimates" "Economic Analysis of the Illegal Demand of Euterpe Precatoris (Wild Palm) Demand and Its Environmental Impacts on the Natural Resources of Costa Rica" "An Analysis of the Economic-Environmental Tradeoffs in the Illinois River Basin" |
Discussants: |
Robert A. Collinge, University of Texas - San Antonio |
Sunday 12:30 - 2:15 p.m. |
Session 225Q Public Issues |
Session Chairs: |
Robert A. Collinge, University of Texas - San Antonio |
Papers: |
"Evaluation of the Vocational Rehabilitation Program: What Do Alternative Selection-Bias Correction Techniques Reveal?" "When the Boomers Retire: Elderly Migration and Taxes" |
Discussants: |
Zaki Zahran, Georgetown University |