Sessions for Robert A. Collinge

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"
Ming-Feng Hsieh, University of Wisconsin
Hui-chen Wang, University of Mississippi (Contact Author)

"Can Environmental Taxes Complement Federal Tax Reform?"
Thomas A. Creahan, Morehead State University (Contact Author)

"Taxable Income Elasticity and social Security Payroll Taxes"
David H. Eaton, Murray State University (Contact Author)

"Constitutions and Pollution Taxation"
Per G. Fredriksson, University of Louisville (Contact Author)
Eric Neumayer, London School of Economics

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"
Robert A. Collinge, University of Texas - San Antonio (Contact Author)

"Do Low-Quality Products Affect High-Quality Entry? Multiproduct Firms and Nonstop Entry in Airline Markets"
Abe Dunn, University of Texas - Austin (Contact Author)

"Offer Curve Behavior by Merchant Plants in Electric Utility Regional Transmission Organizations"
S. Keith Berry, Hendrix College (Contact Author)

"Estimating the Demand for Cellular Phone Services With Termination-Based Price Discrimination"
Ching-I Huang, Northwestern University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Dongsoo Shin, Santa Clara University
Kevin W. Christensen, University of Florida
S. Keith Berry, Hendrix College


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"
Sa Chau Ho, Auburn University (Contact Author)
Diane Hite, Auburn University

"An Experiment on a Psycho-Economic Model of Donation Behavior for Rainforest Conservation"
Samiran Banerjee, Emory University
James H. Murphy, Western Carolina University (Contact Author)
Deborah J. Webb, University of West Georgia

"An Evaluation of Benefit Transfers of Choice Model Estimates"
Karie A. Barbour, Illinois State University (Contact Author)
Steven Stewart, University of Arizona

"Economic Analysis of the Illegal Demand of Euterpe Precatoris (Wild Palm) Demand and Its Environmental Impacts on the Natural Resources of Costa Rica"
Nolan A. Quiros, School for Field Studies (Contact Author)

"An Analysis of the Economic-Environmental Tradeoffs in the Illinois River Basin"
Keith Willett, Oklahoma State University (Contact Author)
David M. Mitchell, Missouri State University

Discussants:

Robert A. Collinge, University of Texas - San Antonio
Shigeru Matsumoto, Kansai University - Japan


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?"
David H. Dean, University of Richmond
Robert C. Dolan, University of Richmond (Contact Author)
Robert M. Schmidt, University of Richmond

"When the Boomers Retire: Elderly Migration and Taxes"
David Denslow, University of Florida
Natalia Pakhotina, University of Florida (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Zaki Zahran, Georgetown University
Pavel A. Yakovlev, West Virginia University


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