THE 64th INTERNATIONAL ATLANTIC ECONOMIC CONFERENCE
Savannah, Georgia
7-10 October 2007

THE WELFARE STATE
Monday 09h00 - 11h00
Organizers: M. Peter van der Hoek, Erasmus University—The Netherlands and Giuseppe Eusepi, Sapienza University of Rome—Italy

Chair: Thomas Apolte, University of Münster—Germany

J. R. Clark, University of Tennessee—U.S.A. and Dwight R. Lee, University of Georgia—U.S.A., Government Transfers and Inequality: An Anatomy of Political Failure

Giuseppe Eusepi, Luisa Giuriato, and Alessandra Cepparulo, Sapienza University of Rome—Italy, Democracy, Debt, and Disorder: Towards the End of Political "Generosity"

Hubert Gabrisch, Institute for Economic Research Halle—Germany and Jens Holscher, University of Brighton—United Kingdom, Institutional Deficits and Growing Imbalances in the Euro Area

Michael Reksulak, Georgia Southern University—U.S.A., Institutional Inertia: Who Should be in Charge of Ending Welfare as We Know It?

Richard E. Wagner, George Mason University—U.S.A., Welfare State Redistribution within a Polycentric Polity

Discussants: Richard E. Wagner, George Mason University—U.S.A., Dwight R. Lee, University of Georgia—U.S.A., Debjani Kanjilal, University of Memphis—U.S.A., Giuseppe Eusepi, Sapienza University of Rome—Italy, and Michael Reksulak, Georgia Southern University—U.S.A.