NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
National
Security Working Group
Martin
Feldstein, Organizer
February
22, 2007
NBER
PRELIMINARY
PROGRAM
THURSDAY
FEBRUARY 22:
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
BENJAMIN JONES, Northwestern University and NBER
BENJAMIN OLKEN,
Hit or Miss? The
Effects of Assassinations on Institutions and War
9:50 am
TODD SANDLER,
Economic Consequences of Terrorism
on Developed and
Developing Countries: An Overview
10:40 am
Break
11:00 am
BRENT NEIMAN,
PHILLIP SWAGEL, U.S. Treasury
Department
The Impact of Post
9/11 Visa Policies on Travel to the United States
11:50 am
SANDEEP BALIGA, Northwestern University
TOMAS SJOSTROM,
Strategic Ambiguity
and Arms Proliferation
12:40 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
STEPHEN MIRAN, Harvard University
Budget Rules and
Defense: Evidence from the EU
2:50 pm
PRICE FISHBACK,
JOSEPH CULLEN,
3:40 pm
Adjourn
1/29/07