W. ALLEN WALLIS INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY

Wallis Institute Annual Conference 2008

held at the Schlegel Hall, Wm. E. Simon Graduate School of Business, UR
Papers Presented:

"Searching for Good Policies"
Steve Callander, Northwestern
"Competence and Ideology"
Odilon Camara, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
(Co-Authors : Dan Bernhardt and Francesco Squintani)
"Elections with Platform and Valence Competition"
Scott Ashworth, Princeton
(Co-Author : Ethan Bueno de Mesquita)
"Parties, Coalitions, and the Internal Organization of Legislatures"
Razvan Vlaicu, Univ. Maryland
(Co-Author : Daniel Diermeir)
"Information and Voting: the Wisdom of the Experts versus the Wisdom of the Masses"
Joseph McMurray, Univ. Rochester
"Strategic Delegation and Voting Rules"
Bard Harstad, Northwestern
"Pork Versus Public Goods: An Experimental Study of Public Good Provision Within a Legislative Bargaining Framework"
Massimo Morelli, Columbia
(Co-Authors : Guillaume Frechette and John Kagel)
"On the Case for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the US Constitution"
Marina Azzimonti, Univ. Texas
(Co-Authors : Marco Battaglini and Steven Coate)

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