SI 2023 Economics of National Security

Samuel Bazzi and Eli Berman, Organizers

July 26, 2023

Skyline AB

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 26
9:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:50 am	Convene and Introductions
10:00 am	Jonah M. Rexer, Princeton University Ethan B. Kapstein, Princeton University Andres Rivera, Universidad Javeriana-Cali Pricing Conflict Risk: Evidence from Sovereign Bonds (slides)
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, HEC Lausanne and LSE Sanctions and Misallocation. How Sanctioned Firms Won and Russia Lost (slides)
11:45 am	Joshua Blumenstock, University of California at Berkeley Michael Callen, London School of Economics Anastasiia Faikina, Convoy Inc Stefano Fiorin, Bocconi University Tarek F. Ghani, Washington University in St Louis Strengthening Fragile States: Evidence from Mobile Salary Payments in Afghanistan
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Naomi Gershoni, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Rania Gihleb, University of Pittsburgh Assaf Y. Kott, Ben-Gurion University Of the Negev Hani Mansour, University of Colorado Denver Yannay Shanan, Bar Ilan University Religious Safety Nets and their Effects on Human Capital Accumulation
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Sangyoon Park, University of Hong Kong Yutaro Izumi, GRIPS Education and Wartime Mobilization: Evidence from Colonial Korea during WWII
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Christopher Blattman, University of Chicago and NBER Gustavo Duncan, Universidad EAFIT Benjamin Lessing, University of Chicago Santiago Tobon, Universidad EAFIT Civilian alternatives to policing: Evidence from Medellín’s community problem-solving intervention Operación Convivencia (slides)
4:15 pm	Dotan Haim, Florida State University Nico Ravanilla, University of California San Diego Renard Sexton, Emory University Winning "Hearts and Minds'' in Moments of Crisis? Evidence from a Counter-insurgency Field Experiment in the Philippines Before, During and After Covid-19
5:00 pm	Adjourn