Session Chairs:

Jeremy Horpedahl, George Mason University

Papers:

"Economic Freedom and Income Mobility in the United States"
Nathan J. Ashby, The University of Texas at El Paso (Contact Author)

"Using the State Economic Freedom Index to Explain Variation in the State Coincidence Index of Economic Performance"
Michael D. Stroup, Stephen F. Austin State University (Contact Author)
Mark A. Thompson, Augusta State University

"The Fiscal Consequences of Democracy in America, 1789-1860"
Jeremy Horpedahl, George Mason University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Michael Makowsky, 101M Stephens Hall
Karen Smith Conway, University of New Hampshire
Harini Kannan, Georgia State University

Session Chairs:

Eric Crampton, University of Canterbury

Papers:

"Fiscal Decentralization and Public Debt: Is There a Link?"
Thushyanthan Baskaran, University of Heidelberg (Contact Author)

"Do Terror Attacks Affect Elections?"
Kathleen Deloughery, The Ohio State University (Contact Author)

"Population Heterogeneity, the Type of Government, and the Nature and Extent of Government Intervention"
John Garen, University of Kentucky
Carlos Lopes, University of Kentucky (Contact Author)

"Political Ignorance and Political Preferences"
Eric Crampton, University of Canterbury (Contact Author)
Martin Stevenson, none

Discussants:

Jeremy Horpedahl, George Mason University
Pavel A. Yakovlev, Duquesne University
William F. Shughart, II, University of Mississippi
Eric Crampton, University of Canterbury