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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2009

 

Economics of National Security

 

Martin Feldstein, Organizer

 

July 24, 2009

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, JULY 24:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

WILLIAM NORDHAUS, Yale University

 

The Effects of the Security Environment on Military Expenditures: Pooled Analyses of 159 Countries, 1950-2000

 

 

 

Discussant:  ALEX GELBER, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

9:50 am

ERWANN O. MICHEL-KERJAN, University of Pennsylvania

 

PAUL A. RASCHKY, University of Melbourne

 

HOWARD C. KUNREUTHER, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Corporate Demand for Insurance: An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Market for Catastrophe and Non-Catastrophe Risks 

 

 

 

Discussant:  KENNETH FROOT, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am  

ERIC GOULD, Hebrew University Jerusalem

 

ESTEBAN KLOR, Hebrew University Jerusalem

 

Does Terrorism Work?

 

 

 

Discussant:  IOANA PETRESCU, American Enterprise Institute

 

 

11:50 am

GARY BECKER, University of Chicago

 

YONA RUBINSTEIN, Brown University

 

Fear and the Response to Terrorism: An Economic Analysis

 

 

 

Discussant:  JESSE SHAPIRO, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 

THE ECONOMICS OF CYBER SECURITY

 

 

 1:30 pm

STEVEN CHABINSKY, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

 

The Nature of Cyber Threats

 

 

 2:30 pm

JACK GOLDSMITH, Harvard University

 

Economic Issues in Dealing with Cyber Security

 

 

 

Discussant: EDWARD GLAESER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 3:30 pm

Break

 

 

 3:50 pm

PACO MARTORELL, RAND Corporation

 

JACOB KLERMAN, Abt Associates

 

DAVID LOUGHRAN, RAND Corporation

 

New Evidence on the Effects of Voluntary Military Service on Labor Market Outcomes

 

 

 

Discussant:  JOSH ANGRIST, MIT and NBER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 4:40 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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