09:00–09:30

Venue: Room 2001.

Registration

09:20–09:30

Venue: Room 2001.

Opening remarks

Wen-cheng Lin (林文程), Dean, College of Social Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University.

Chyi-Lu Jang (張其祿), Associate Dean, College of Social Sciences, and Chair, Department of Political Economy, National Sun Yat-sen University.

09:30–10:30

Venue: Room 2001.

Keynote speech: An Economic Theory of Bargaining and Fighting with Endogenous Destruction (War and peace: endogenous destruction costs affect decisions between fighting and peace).

Chair: Wen-cheng Lin (林文程), Professor, Graduate Institute of China and Asia-Pacific Studies, and Dean, College of Social Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University.

Speaker: Yang-Ming Chang (張洋銘), Professor, Department of Economics, Kansas State University, United States.

10:35–12:00

Venue: Room 2001.

Theme 1: First economic application of the political-economy approach.

Chair: Yang-Ming Chang (張洋銘), Professor, Department of Economics, Kansas State University, United States.

Presenter: Chun-Chieh Wang (王俊傑), Assistant Professor, Department of Political Economy, National Sun Yat-sen University.

Topic: Expressive voting, disappearing median voters, and polarized ideology: an empirical study of U.S. presidential elections.

Discussant: I-Hui Cheng (鄭義暉), Associate Professor, Department of Applied Economics, National University of Kaohsiung.

Presenter: I-Hui Cheng (鄭義暉), Associate Professor, Department of Applied Economics, National University of Kaohsiung.

Topic: Economic Similarity and Trading Blocs: Whether a RTA is Natural or Unnatural?

Discussant: Yi-chan Tsai (蔡宜展), Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, National Taiwan University.

Presenter: Yi-chan Tsai (蔡宜展), Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, National Taiwan University.

Topic: Can Working Capital Resolve the Durable Goods Co-movement Problem?

Discussant: Chun-Chieh Wang (王俊傑), Assistant Professor, Department of Political Economy, National Sun Yat-sen University.

12:00–13:30

Lunch; venue: outside Room 3001.

13:30–15:00

Venue: Room 3001.

Theme 2: Political applications of the political-economy approach.

Chair: Ta-chi Liao (廖達琪), Professor and Director, Graduate Institute of Political Science, National Sun Yat-sen University.

Presenter: Ping-yen Lu (魯炳炎), Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Public Administration, National Dong Hwa University.

Topic: An inquiry into exchange relationships among electoral markets, government markets, and political-activism markets: a political-marketing perspective.

Discussant: Chyi-Lu Jang (張其祿), Associate Dean, College of Social Sciences, and Chair, Department of Political Economy, National Sun Yat-sen University.

Presenter: Chao-lung Liu (劉兆隆), Associate Professor, Department of Public Affairs and Civic Education, National Changhua University of Education.

Topic: A study of Taiwan’s election-expense reporting system, analyzed from the perspective of mechanism-design theory.

Discussant: Yu-Kang Lee (李予綱), Associate Professor, Department of Political Economy, National Sun Yat-sen University.

Presenter: Chih-lung Huang (黃志隆), Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy and Management, I-Shou University.

Topic: Constructing the ideal type of the social-investment state: youth transitions and social-policy reform in Sweden and the United Kingdom.

Discussant: Chuei-Ling Shin (辛翠玲), Professor, Department of Political Economy, National Sun Yat-sen University.

13:30–15:00

Venue: Room 2001.

Theme 3: Second economic application of the political-economy approach.

Chair: Feng-sheng Wang (王鳳生), Professor, Department of Applied Economics, National University of Kaohsiung.

Presenter: Feng-sheng Wang (王鳳生), Professor, Department of Applied Economics, National University of Kaohsiung.

Topic: Leading Merge and Entry License.

Discussant: Wen-Chung Guo (郭文忠), Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National Taipei University.

Presenter: Wen-Chung Guo (郭文忠), Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National Taipei University.

Topic: Media Bias, Slant Regulation, and the Public-Interest Media.

Discussant: Shih-Jye Wu (吳世傑), Associate Professor, Department of Political Economy, National Sun Yat-sen University.

Presenter: Mao-ting Lin (林茂廷), Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, National Taipei University.

Topic: A New Method of Measuring Voter and Candidate Ideology.

Discussant: Ming-Hsuan Lee (李明軒), Assistant Professor, Department of Political Economy, National Sun Yat-sen University.

12:00–16:00

Theme 4: Poster display of Political Economy student special-project results; venue: outside Room 3001.

15:10

Closing group photograph; venue: Room 2001.