NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2007

 

Economics of National Security

 

July 27, 2007

 

Martin Feldstein, Organizer

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Charles AB Room

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, JULY 26:

 

 

 6:30 pm

Group Dinner

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

Dinner Speaker:  GRAHAM ALLISON, Harvard University

 

Preventing Nuclear Terrorism

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 27:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

DAVID JAEGER, College of William and Mary

 

ESTEBAN KLOR, Hebrew University

 

M. DANIELE PASERMAN, Hebrew University and NBER

 

The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds

 

 

 

Discussant:  JESSE SHAPIRO, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 9:50 am

ERWANN MICHEL-KERJAN, University of Pennsylvania

 

BURKHARD PEDELL, University of Stuttgart

 

How Does the Corporate World Cope with Megaterrorism?

 

 

 

Discussant:  JEFFREY BROWN, University of Illinois and NBER

 

 

10:40 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

ALBERTO ABADIE, Harvard University and NBER

 

Is Terrorism Eroding Agglomeration Economies in Central Business Districts?  Lessons from the Office Real Estate Market in Downtown Chicago

 

 

 

Discussant: TODD SINAI, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

11:50 am

IOANA PETRESCU, Harvard University

 

Rethinking the Success of Economic Sanctions

 

 

 

Discussant: GARY HUFBAUER, Peterson Institute of International Economics

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 2:00 pm

ERIC CHANEY, UC, Berkeley

 

Assessing Pacification Policy in Iraq: Evidence from Iraqi Financial Markets

 

 

 

Discussant:  STEVE DAVIS, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 2:50 pm

MATTHEW HANSON and MARTIN SCHMIDT, College of William and Mary

 

The Impact of Coalition Offensive Operations on the Iraqi Insurgency

 

 

 

Discussant:  ALEX GELBER, Harvard University

 

 

 3:40 pm

Break

 

 

 4:00 pm

DAN AHN, Harvard University

 

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve

 

 

 

Discussant:  PETER GARBER, Deutsche Bank

 

 

 4:50 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6/13/07