NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

National Security Working Group

 

Martin Feldstein, Organizer

 

February 22, 2007

 

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22:

 

 8:30 am          Continental Breakfast

 

 9:00 am          BENJAMIN JONES, Northwestern University and NBER

BENJAMIN OLKEN, Harvard University and NBER

Hit or Miss? The Effects of Assassinations on Institutions and War

 

 9:50 am          TODD SANDLER, University of Texas

Economic Consequences of Terrorism on Developed and

Developing Countries:  An Overview

 

10:40 am         Break

 

11:00 am         BRENT NEIMAN, Harvard University

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, Rutgers University

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, University of Arizona and NBER

JOSEPH CULLEN, University of Arizona

Did Big Governments Largesse Help the Locals?  The Implications of WWII Spending for Local Economic Activity, 1939-1958

 

 3:40 pm          Adjourn

 

 

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