SI 2016 Economics of National Security

Martin S. Feldstein and Eli Berman, Organizers

July 25, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 25
9:30 am
Erik Meyersson, SITE, Stockholm School of Economics

Industrial Espionage and Productivity
10:15 am
Gregory DeAngelo, Claremont Graduate University

Private Security and the Provision of International Public Goods
11:15 am
Hannes Mueller, Institute of Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona GSE
Christopher Rauh, University of Cambridge

Reading Between the Lines: Prediction of Political Violence Using Newspaper Text
1:00 pm
Sankar De, Shiv Nadar University

Financial Development and Conflict Mitigation: Can Finance Combat Conflict?
1:45 pm
Susan Carter
Abigail K. Wozniak, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

The Impacts of Moving on Family Structure in U.S. Army Data
2:45 pm
Yael Elster, University of Haifa
Asaf Zussman, Hebrew University
Noam Zussman, Bank of Israel

Rockets: The Housing Market Effects of a Credible Terrorist Threat
3:30 pm
Andrew C. Shaver, University of California, Merced

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