SI 2020 Economics of National Security

Eli Berman, Organizer

July 20, 2020

on Zoom.us

Monday, July 20

11:00 am

Kyle Greenberg, United States Military Academy at West Point and NBER
Matthew Gudgeon, Tufts University
Adam Isen, Johns Hopkins University
Corbin Miller, Internal Revenue Service
Richard W. Patterson, Brigham Young University

Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era

Discussant:

Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

12:00 pm

Daniel Indacochea, University of Toronto

A Farewell to Army Segregation: The Effects of Racial Integration During the Korean War (slides)

Discussant:

Kevin Lang, Boston University and NBER (slides)

1:00 pm

Rodrigo Carril
Andres Gonzalez Lira, PUC-Chile
Michael Walker, University of California, Berkeley

Competition and Contract Performance: Evidence from US Defense Procurement (slides)

Discussant:

Decio Coviello, HEC Montreal (slides)

2:00 pm

Virtual Lunch

3:00 pm

Thiemo R. Fetzer, University of Warwick
Pedro CL. Souza, Queen Mary University of London
Oliver Vanden Eynde, Paris School of Economics
Austin L. Wright, University of Chicago

Security Transitions (slides)

Discussant:

Gerard Padró I Miquel, Yale University and NBER

4:00 pm

Paolo Bertolotti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fotini Christia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ali Jadbabaie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Social Network Effects of Drone Strikes (slides)

Discussant:

Jacob N. Shapiro, Princeton University (slides)

5:00 pm

Virtual Happy Hour

6:30 pm

Adjourn