Organizers:

Dennis Coates, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Session Chairs:

Frank Stephenson, Berry College

Papers:

"College Football"
Frank Stephenson, Berry College (Contact Author)

"Everybody Hates a Winner, and You Are Close to Your Rival: A Study of Rivalry in College Football"
Cary A. Deck, University of Arkansas
Sarah Marx Quintanar, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Javier A. Reyes, University of Arkansas
Sudipta Sarangi, Louisiana State University (Contact Author)

"Strategic Interaction in a Repeated Game: Evidence from NCAA Football Recruiting"
Brad R. Humphreys, West Virginia University (Contact Author)
Jane E. Ruseski, West Virginia University
XiaoGang Che, Durham University

"Conference Externalities in College Football Recruiting"
Joshua Pitts, Kennesaw State University (Contact Author)
Brent Evans, Dalton State College

Discussants:

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Organizers:

Dean B. Stansel, Florida Gulf Coast University

Session Chairs:

Dean B. Stansel, Florida Gulf Coast University

Papers:

"An Economic Freedom Index for U.S. Metropolitan Areas: An Updated and Expanded Edition"
Dean B. Stansel, Florida Gulf Coast University (Contact Author)

"Striking It Rich: Economic Freedom and Intergenerational Income Mobility"
Aleksandar (Sasha) Tomic, Macon State College (Contact Author)

"Local Decentralization and Overlapping Jurisdictions: The Effect of Home Rule"
Robert Salvino, Coastal Carolina University (Contact Author)
Geoffrey K. Turnbull, University of Central Florida

"The Political Economy of Voting in Georgia"
Lauren R. Heller, Berry College
Frank Stephenson, Berry College

Discussants:

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Organizers:

Dennis Coates, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Session Chairs:

Amber Brown, University of Wyoming

Papers:

"Sports Economics Through Film"
Frank Stephenson, Berry College (Contact Author)

"Arbitration in the Classroom: A Classroom Experiment to Model MLB's Salary Arbitration"
Amber Brown, University of Wyoming (Contact Author)

"Econfantasy.com—An Economics of Sports Semester Simulation"
Karl W. Einolf, Mount Saint Mary's University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

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Organizers:

Dennis Coates, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Session Chairs:

Craig A. Depken, II, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Papers:

"Voting on the Olympics"
Dennis Coates, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Contact Author)
Pamela Wicker, German Sport University

"Municipalities and University Athletic Departments: Economic Policy Development for Collaborative Capital Projects"
Tony Franklin, North Carolina State University (Contact Author)

"Measuring the Impact of Local Sporting Events: Evidence from Charlotte, North Carolina"
Craig A. Depken, II, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Contact Author)
Frank Stephenson, Berry College

Discussants:

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Organizers:

John Merrifield, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Session Chairs:

John Merrifield, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Papers:

"Peer Networks and School Choice Under Incomplete Information"
Andrew Dustan, Vanderbilt University (Contact Author)

"Do Legislators Vote the Preferences of Their Constituents? The Case of Georgia’s 2012 Charter Schools Amendment"
Brooke Conaway, Georgia College & State University
Ben Scafidi, Georgia College & State University
Frank Stephenson, Berry College

"Public School District Inefficiency: Endogenous Cost Frontier Analysis with Panel Data"
Mustafa U. Karakaplan, Utah State University (Contact Author)
Levent Kutlu, Georgia Institute of Technology

Discussants:

John Merrifield, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Andrew Dustan, Vanderbilt University
Ben Scafidi, Georgia College & State University
Brooke Conaway, Georgia College & State University

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