Dansk Public Choice Workshop 2015

Hvert år afholdes den danske Public Choice Workshop i januar, og i år er Aarhus Universitet vært for arrangementet. Workshoppen løber af stablen fredag den 23. januar klokken 11, og afholdes på Institut for Økonomi. De senere års tradition tro er der åbent for alle kolleger fra forskellige institutioner, inklusive PhD-studerende og interesserede kandidatstuderende.

Som altid er der en bred palet af emner i løbet af dagen. Som noget nyt har vi inviteret kolleger fra Lund og Hamborg med, og får også fornøjelsen af en dansk kollega fra Groningen. Programmet ser således ud:

11-12.30

Philipp Schröder (AU): Harmonization versus Mutual Recognition

Gert Tinggaard Svendsen (AU): Waste of Resources? Countervailing Lobbying in the EU ETS

Lasse Aaskoven (KU): Public Sector Unions and Contracting Out in Danish Municipalities

13.20-14.50

Therese Nilsson (Lund): Tolerance in the United States: How free markets transform racial, religious, and sexual attitudes

Rasmus Wiese (Groningen): Expressive voting and ideology in a laboratory democracy

Sylvanus Afesorgbor (AU): Impact of Economic Sanctions on Income Inequality of Target Nations

15.20-.16.50

Irina Mirkina (Lund): Pushed by Poverty or by Institutions? An Analysis of Migration Determinants

Martin Paldam (AU): The Political Economy of Church Building in Denmark

Jerg Guttman (Hamburg): Mapping the Road to Freedom

17.00-18.30

Christina Mangaard Jørgensen (AU): Did Africa’s First Choices Matter? Growth Effects of Leaders at Independence

Thomas Barnebeck Andersen (SDU): Inflation targeting and macroeconomic performance since the Great Recession

David Dreyer Lassen (KU): Petro Rents, Political Institutions, and Hidden Wealth: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts