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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2013 Economics of National Security

Martin Feldstein, Organizer

July 22, 2013

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

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 22


8:45 am


Coffee and Pastries


9:15 am


Francesco Caselli, London School of Economics and NBER
Dominic Rohner, University of Zurich
Massimo Morelli, Columbia University
The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars

Discussant: Michael Greenstone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER


10:15 am


Break


10:30 am


Frank Gunter. Lehigh University
Entrepreneurship in Conflict and Post-Conflict States

Discussant:

Ethan B. Kapstein, Princeton University and NBER


11:30 am


Benjamin Crost, University of Colorado Denver
Joseph Felter, Hoover Institution
Hani Mansour, University of Colorado Denver
Daniel I. Rees, University of Colorado Denver
Election Fraud and Post-Election Conflict: Evidence from the Philippines

Discussant: Jacob N. Shapiro, Princeton University


12:30 pm


Lunch


1:30 pm


David Lyle, U.S. Military Academy
Embedding Market Mechanisms within Public Sector Bureaucracies, Evidence from Experiments in the U.S. Army

Discussant: Jeffrey B. Liebman, Harvard University and NBER


2:30 pm


Break


2:45 pm


Eric Gould, Hebrew University
Esteban Klor, Hebrew University
The Long-Run Effect of 9/11: Terrorism, Backlash, and the Assimilation of Muslim Immigrants in the West

Discussant: Daniele Paserman, Boston University and NBER


3:45 pm


Adjourn