Friday 8:00 - 9:45 a.m. SEA |
Session 15A Empirical Public with a Spatial Bent |
Session Chairs: |
David T. Mitchell, University of Central Arkansas |
Papers: |
"A Spatial Econometric Analysis of MSA-to-MSA Migration Flows" "Measuring the Value of Transit Infrastructure Using Survey and Voting Data" |
Discussants: |
Todd M. Nesbit, The Ohio State University |
Friday 10:00 - 11:45 a.m. SEA |
Session 15B Public Finance with an Institutional Bent |
Organizers: |
Thomas Snyder, University of Central Arkansas |
Session Chairs: |
Thomas Snyder, University of Central Arkansas |
Papers: |
"Firm Valuation as a Shadow Price of Economic Freedom" "An Economic Freedom Index for U.S. Metropolitan Areas" "Regulation and the Size of the Firm" "Political Determinants of Public Debt" |
Discussants: |
TBA |
Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 a.m. SEA* |
Session 01G* Issues in Public Sector Economics II |
Organizers: |
J.R. Clark, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga |
Session Chairs: |
J.R. Clark, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga |
Papers: |
"An Economic Analysis of the Effects of Fair-Trade, with Rumination on the Popularity of Economists" "Dangling at the Abyss: How Political Economy Equilibrium Pushes Us to the Edge of the Abyss. . .but Keeps Us from Going in" "Think Tank Expenditures and Interest Group Activity: A Dynamic Panel Granger Causality Test" |
Discussants: |
John Garen, University of Kentucky |