• SESSION 1: Agency Problems and Constitutional Issues
• Bueno de Mesquita "Unbundling Tasks"
• Ting "Turf Wars"
• Snyder "U.S. State Courts"
• Callander "Experiment in Federal Systems"
• Ferejohn "Blank Checks, Insufficient Balances"
• SESSION 2: Information Aggregation and Distributional Concerns
• Van Weelden "Policymaking"
• Squintani "Intra-Party Factions"
• Xefteris "Strategic Extremism"
• Yariv "Collective Dynamic Choice"
• Levy "Preferences over Redistribution"
• SESSION 3: Dynamic Models and Models of Turnout
• Battaglini "Dynamic Free Rider"
• Dewan "The Cabinet and its Shadow"
• Duggan "Markovian Elections"
• Agranov "Polls and Turnout"
• Oliveros "Abstention and News Media"

Blank Checks, Insufficient Balances

John Ferejohn, School of Law, New York University

with Rick Hills