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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2014 Economics of National Security

Martin S. Feldstein, Organizer

July 21, 2014

Skyline Rooms CDE

Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 21


8:30 am


Coffee and Pastries


9:00 am


Jose G. Montalvo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Marta Reynal-Querol, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Earthquakes and Terrorism: the Long Lasting Effect of Seismic Shocks (slides)


9:45 am


Philippe Aghion, Harvard University and NBER
Military Rivalry and Education


10:30 am


Break


10:45 am


David Kogon, United States Army

A2AD and Air Sea Defence


11:30 am


Kurt Muhler, United States Navy

Private Military Security Companies: Impacts on Global Security and a Strategy for Regulation


12:15 pm


Lunch


1:30 pm


Brendan Stickles, United States Navy
The Post 9-11 GI Bill:  Recruit, Retain, Reward


2:15 pm


Maria Syms, Harvard University
America’s Energy Independence and the Gulf Region


3:00 pm


Break


3:15 pm


Paul Novosad, Dartmouth College
Eric Werker, Harvard University
Who Runs the International System? Power and the Staffing of the United Nations Secretariat


4:00 pm


Xiaohuan Lan, University of Virginia
Ben Li, Boston College
The Economics of Nationalism


4:45 pm


Adjourn