National
Bureau of Economic Research
Working Group on the Economics of National Security
Martin Feldstein, Organizer
November 21, 2003
NBER 2nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Program
Thursday,
November 20
7:30 p.m. Reception and Group Dinner (8:00)
The Royal Sonesta
Hotel
Friday, November 21
8:10 and 8:25 Shuttle van from the Royal
Sonesta Hotel to 1050 Massachusetts Avenue
8:15 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:50 a.m. Martin Feldstein, Harvard University and NBER
Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m. Steven Davis, Kevin Murphy, and Robert Topel
University of
Chicago and NBER
War in Iraq vs.
Containment: Weighing the Consequences
9:55 a.m. Justin Wolfers, Stanford University and NBER
Andrew Leigh, Harvard University
Eric Zitzewitz, Stanford University
What Do Financial Markets Think of War in Iraq?
10:50 a.m. Break
11:05 a.m. M. Ishaq Nadiri, New York University and NBER
Lessons from
Afghanistan: An Economists Perspective
12:00 p.m. Christopher Foote, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston,
recently U.S.
Treasury at Central Command in Baghdad
The Current
Economic Situation in Iraq
12:55 p.m. Lunch
1:40 p.m. Manuel Trajtenberg, Tel Aviv University and NBER
Crafting
Defense R&D Policy in the Anti-Terrorism Era
2:35 p.m. Matthew Weinzierl, Harvard University
and Council of
Economic Advisors
The Cost of
Controlling Nuclear Weapons and Materials
3:30 p.m. Break
3:45 p.m. Francesco Caselli, Harvard University and NBER
Wilbur Coleman, Duke University
On the Theory
of Ethnic Conflicts
4:40 p.m. Adjourn