NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2005

 

Economics of National Security

 

July 26, 2005

 

Martin Feldstein, Organizer

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

TUESDAY, JULY 26:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

Chair:  MARTIN FELDSTEIN, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 9:00 am

ALBERTO ABADIE, Harvard University and NBER

 

JAVIER GARDEAZABAL, University of the Basque Country

 

Terrorism and the World Economy

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

DAVID JAEGER, College of William and Mary

 

M. DANIELE PASERMAN, Hebrew University

 

The Cycle of Violence? An Empirical Analysis of Fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

 

 

11:15 am

ETHAN KAPSTEIN, INSEAD

 

Capturing Fortress Europe: International Collaboration and the Joint Strike Fighter

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:15 pm

JEFFREY CLEMENS, Council of Economic Advisers

 

Opium in Afghanistan: Prospects for the Success of Source-Country Drug Control Policies

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

EDWARD LEAMER, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

CHRISTOPHER THORNBERG, UC, Los Angeles

 

Ports, Trade and Terrorism

 

 

 3:30 pm

PHILIPPE MARTIN, University of Paris 1

 

THIERRY MAYER, University of Paris SUD

 

MATHIAS THOENIG, University of Geneva

 

Make Trade not War?

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

5/16/05