NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010

 

Economics of National Security

 

Martin Feldstein, Organizer

 

July 26, 2010

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Skyline Suite

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 26:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University and NBER

 

Eyal Dvir, Boston College

 

The Three Epochs of Oil

 

 

9:40 am

Chris Rohlfs, Syracuse University

Ryan Sullivan, Naval Postgraduate School

The Cost-Effectiveness of the Army’s Medium and Heavy Tactical Wheeled Vehicles in Iraq

 

 

10:20 am

Break

 

 

10:45 am

Ioana Petrescu, American Enterprise Institute

 

The Humanitarian Impact of Economic Sanctions

 

 

11:25 am

Efraim Benmelech, Harvard University and NBER

 

Claude Berrebi, RAND

 

Estaban Klor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Count Suicide Terrorism: Evidence from House Demolitions

 

 

12:05 pm

Philipp Bleek, Harvard University

 

Does economic interdependence curb nuclear weapons proliferation proclivity? A quantitative test

 

 

12:45 pm

Lunch

 

 

Economic Development in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings

 

 

1:45 pm

Eli Berman, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

The Economic Research Program in Afghanistan

 

 

2:25 pm

TBA

 

3:05 pm

Break

 

 

3:30 pm

Eli Berman, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

Do Working Men Rebel? Insurgency and Unemployment in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Philippines

 

 

4:10 pm

Chris Rohlfs (Syracuse) 

 

Luke N. Condra, Stanford University

 

Joseph H. Felter, Stanford University

 

Radha K. Iyengar, London School of Economics and NBER

 

The Effect of Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq

 

 

4:50 pm

Adjourn