Research Workshop

The Free Market Institute (FMI) Research Workshop exposes graduate students, faculty, staff and other university colleagues to working research related to free market economics and other topics of interest. It is a "workshop" for work in progress that is not yet under consideration by scholarly journals. FMI faculty, research staff and graduate students, other Texas Tech University faculty members and visiting scholars deliver seminar presentations.

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Spring 2021 

• • January 29 — Graduate Student Workshop
    
    • The Effect of Sanctions on Economic Freedom — Gor Mkrtchian, Research Assistant, Free Market Institute, Texas Tech University
    • Paying in Advance? Political Survival and Military Expenditure — Henry Moncrieff, Research Assistant, Free Market Institute, Texas Tech University
  • February 5 — Graduate Student Workshop
    • The Political Economy of Lighthouses in Antebellum America — Justin Callais, Research Assistant, Free Market Institute, Texas Tech University
    • Still a Neo-Classical Anomaly? Re-Examining Income and Input Convergence — Daniel Sánchez-Piñol, Research Assistant, Free Market Institute, Texas Tech University
      
  • February 12 — Bad Men, Good Roads, Jim Crow, and the Economics of Southern Chain Gangs — Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics, Clemson University
  • February 19 — Leadership and Organizations — Lee Alston, Professor of Economics, Indiana University Bloomington
  • February 26 — Right-to-Work and Employment and Establishment Mobility: A Spatial Border Analysis — Todd Nesbit, Assistant Professor of Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurial Economics, Ball State University
  • March 5 — The Calculus of Dissent: Bias and Conformity in FOMC Forecasts  — Thomas Hogan, Senior Research Fellow, American Institute for Economic Research
  • March 26 — What Did Adam Smith Mean? The Semantics of the Opening Key Principles in the Wealth of Nations — Bart Wilson, Donald P. Kennedy Endowed Chair in Economics and Law, Chapman University
  • April 2 — A Cognitive Approach to Stakeholder Enrollment Under Knightian Uncertainty — Peter Klein, W. W. Caruth Endowed Chair, Hankamer College of Business, Baylor University
  • April 16 — Consumer Sovereignty and W.H. Hutt's Critique of the Colour Bar — Art Carden, Professor of Economics, Samford University
  • April 23 — Are Economic Arguments Against Immigration Missing the Boat? The Institutional Effect of the Mariel Boatlift — Claudia Williamson, Probasco Distinguished Chair of Free Enterprise, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
  • April 30 — Don't TREAD on Anyone: The Political Economy and Effectiveness of Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems — Sean Mulholland, Professor of Economics, Western Carolina University
  • May 7 – Testing Stiglitz: Rent-Seeking and Income Distribution – Stephen Miller, Adams-Bibby Chair of Free Enterprise, Sorrell College of Business, Troy University

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