Vi skrev forleden om den danske public choice workshop, der i morgen – mandag den 28/2 – afholdes efter et års tvungen pause. Sidste gang var i januar 2020 (omtalt her), men i morgen er det endelig tid til den 22. workshop. Stedet er Aarhus Universitets campus på Fuglesangs Allé, lokale M104, og hele eventen starter klokken 11. Som vi også har givet vores studerende besked på, er alle interesserede velkomne til at komme, også hvis man kun er interesseret i en enkelt session. Mens vi desværre ikke har tysk deltagelse denne gang – vores kolleger fra Hamborg er forhindrede – spænder programmet endnu engang over forskelligartede emner. Det endelige program er nedenfor, og vi håber på at se punditokraterne-læsere ved workshoppen.

The 22nd Danish Public Choice Workshop

11.00: Welcome

11.05: Institutional and Constitutional Economics (Chair: Christian Bjørnskov)

Niclas Berggren (IFN) and Christian Bjørnskov (Aarhus): Does Legal Freedom Satisfy?

Thomas Barnebeck Andersen (SDU): Democracy and Gender Equality

Christian Bjørnskov (Aarhus), Andreas Bergh (Lund), and Luděk Kouba (Mendel): The Growth Consequences of Socialism.

12.20: Lunch

12.55: Surveys and Meta-Analysis (Chair: Karsten Bo Larsen)

Martin Paldam (Aarhus): Meta-Mining: The Political Economy of Meta-Analysis

Jonas Herby (Cepos), Steve Hanke (Johns Hopkins), and Lars Jonung (Lund): A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: What does the First 1½ Years of Empirical Studies tell Us about the Effects of Lockdowns on COVID-19 Fatality Rates?

Kathrine Elisabeth Skjoldborg and Karsten Bo Larsen (Cepos): Does Public Service Motivation increase Public Service Efficiency? A Meta-Analysis.

14.10: Coffee break

14:30: The Political Economy of Elite Interests (Chair: Lasse Aaskoven)

Stefan Kirkegaard Sløk-Madsen (Cepos): From Liberal to Social Institutional Logics – How a Failed State Organization Saved Itself

Peter Nannestad (Aarhus): Tax Competition or Tax Cartelization? The Political Economy of Decentralized Tax Setting in Denmark, 2007-2020

Lasse Aaskoven (SDU) and Jonathan Stavnskær Doucette (Copenhagen): Elite Control of Religious Institutions: Evidence from Denmark

15:45: Break

15.50: Schools and Democracy (Chair: Andreas Bergh)

Therese Nilsson (Lund), Diem Hoang (Duisburg-Essen) and Martin Karlsson (Duisburg-Essen): Political Representation and Investments in Education: Sweden in 1930-1949.

Karsten Bo Larsen and Jens Lund Andersen (Cepos): The Importance of Competition and Politics for the Efficiency of Public Schools – a Two-Stage Data Envelopment Analysis.

Andreas Bergh (Lund): Do the Highly Educated Know More about the World?