Session Chairs:

Matt E. Ryan, West Virginia University

Papers:

"Legislative and Regulatory Determinants of Electricity Restructuring Decisions"
Earl Davis, Clemson University (Contact Author)

"Tax Shelter or Policy Vehicle? The Effectiveness of State-Based Free Market Think Tanks"
Matt E. Ryan, West Virginia University (Contact Author)

"Factors Affecting the Formation of Promotional Interest Groups"
Aileen Sampson, Clemson University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Nathan J. Ashby, The College of Wooster
Pavel A. Yakovlev, West Virginia University
Susane Jennifer Daniels, West Virginia University

Session Chairs:

Maria Kozhevnikova, Queens College of CUNY

Papers:

"Explicit and Implicit Contracts and the Quality of Exports in the CIS and Eastern Europe"
Maria Kozhevnikova, Queens College of CUNY (Contact Author)

"Texas Treasury Notes and the Compromise of 1850"
Gary M. Pecquet, Shenandoah University
Clifford F. Thies, Shenandoah University (Contact Author)

"Economic Freedom and Growth Production"
Russell S. Sobel, James Clark Coffman Distinguished Chair, West Virginia University
Nathan J. Ashby, The College of Wooster (Contact Author)

"Do Rent-Seeking Groups Announce Their Sharing Rules?"
Kyung Hwan Baik, Sungkyunkwan University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Dongryul Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Susan K. Feigenbaum, University of Missouri - St. Louis
Douglas J. Wakeman, Meredith College

Session Chairs:

Jeffrey Wagner, Rochester Institute of Technology

Papers:

"On the Empirical Plausibility of Theories of Risk Aversion"
James C. Cox, Noah Langdale Jr. Eminent Scholar Chair, Georgia State University and Georgia State University (Contact Author)
Vjolica Sadiraj, Georgia State University
Bodo Vogt, University of Magdeburg
Utteeyo Dasgupta, Franklin & Marshall College and University of Arizona

"Leadership in Groups: An Experimental Study"
Mana Komai, Assistant professor, St. Cloud State University (Contact Author)

"Intra-Personal Informational Cascades"
Diego Nocetti, Clarkson University (Contact Author)

"The Uncertain Moral Context of Price Changes"
Luiz Freitas, Rochester Institute of Technology
Jeffrey Wagner, Rochester Institute of Technology (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Maria Kozhevnikova, Queens College of CUNY
Nathan J. Ashby, The College of Wooster