NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2004

 

Economics of National Security

 

Martin Feldstein, Organizer

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

August 3, 2004

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

TUESDAY, AUGUST 3:

 

 

 8:30 a.m.

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 a.m.

ALAN KRUEGER, Princeton University and NBER

 

DAVID LAITIN, Stanford University

 

Kto Kogo: A Cross-Country Study of the Origins and Targets of Terrorism

 

 

10:00 a.m.

Break

 

 

 10:15 a.m.

JEFFREY BROWN, University of Illinois and NBER

 

An Empirical Analysis of the Economic Impact of Federal Terrorism Reinsurance

 

 

11:15 a.m.

JESSE SHAPIRO and MATTHEW GENTZKOW, Harvard University

 

Media, Education and Anti-Americanism in the Muslim World

 

 

12:15 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

 1:15 p.m.

EDWARD GLAESER, Harvard University and NBER

 

The Political Economy of Hatred

 

 

 2:15 p.m.

Break

 

 

2:30 p.m.

GEOFFREY HEAL, Columbia University and NBER

 

HOWARD KUNREUTHER, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Interdependent Security: A General Model

 

 

 3:30 p.m.

JOHAN PLESNER, Harvard University

 

Principles of Humiliation Driven Security Strategies: Applying Prospect Theory Principles to Analyze Sadat's Honor Restoration Strategy surrounding the 1973 "Yom Kippur War"

 

 

 4:30 p.m.

Adjourn

 6:00 p.m.

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

 

 

6/8/04