SI 2016 Economics of National Security
Organized by Martin S. Feldstein and Eli Berman
July 25, 2016
Royal Sonesta Hotel

Monday, July 25

9:30 am

Industrial Espionage and Productivity

Erik Meyersson, SITE, Stockholm School of Economics

10:15 am

Private Security and the Provision of International Public Goods

Gregory DeAngelo, Claremont Graduate University

11:15 am

Reading Between the Lines: Prediction of Political Violence Using Newspaper Text

Hannes Mueller, Institute of Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona GSE
Christopher Rauh, University of Cambridge

1:00 pm

Financial Development and Conflict Mitigation: Can Finance Combat Conflict?

Sankar De, Shiv Nadar University

1:45 pm

The Impacts of Moving on Family Structure in U.S. Army Data

Susan Carter Abigail K. Wozniak, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

2:45 pm

Rockets: The Housing Market Effects of a Credible Terrorist Threat

Yael Elster, University of Haifa
Asaf Zussman, Hebrew University
Noam Zussman, Bank of Israel

3:30 pm

Information and Communication Technologies, Wartime Informing, and Insurgent Violence.

Andrew C. Shaver, University of California, Merced