NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2008

 

Economics of National Security

Martin Feldstein, Organizer

 

July 25, 2008

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Charles Suite, East Tower

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, JULY 25:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

BROCK BLOMBERG, Claremont McKenna College

 

ROZLYN ENGEL, U.S. Military Academy 

 

Lines in the Sand:  Border Effects, Economic Integration and Disintegration of Post-War Iraq

 

 

 

Discussant:  JUSTIN WOLFERS, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

9:50 am

NATHAN CONVERSE, London School of Economics

 

ETHAN KAPSTEIN, INSEAD

 

The Fate of Young Democracies

 

 

 

Discussant:  BENJAMIN OLKEN, MIT and NBER

 

 

10:40 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

RADHA IYENGAR, Harvard University

 

JONATHAN MARTEN, Harvard University

 

Is There an “Emboldenment” Effect? Evidence from the Insurgency in Iraq

 

 

 

Discussant:  ALBERTO ALESINA, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

11:50 am

REUVEN GLICK, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

 

ALAN TAYLOR, UC, Davis

 

Collateral Damage:  Trade Disruption and the Economic Impact of War

 

 

 

Discussant:  JEFFREY FRANKEL, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

2:00 pm

DEEPA DHUME, Harvard University

 

Five Priorities for Economic Reform in Iraq

 

 

 

Discussant:  CHRISTOPHER FOOTE, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

 

 

2:50 pm

ELI BERMAN, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

JOSEPH FELTER, U.S. Military Academy

 

JACOB SHAPIRO, Princeton University

 

Can Hearts and Minds be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq

 

 

 

Discussant:  JESSE SHAPIRO, University of Chicago andNBER

 

 

3:40 pm

Break

 

 

4:00 pm

SEBASTIAN NEGRUSA, RAND

 

CURTIS SIMON and JOHN WARNER, Clemson University 

 

Education Benefits and Military Service:  An Analysis of Enlistment, Reenlistment and Veterans’ Benefits Usage 1991-2005

 

 

 

Discussant:  ALEXANDER GELBER, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

4:50 pm 

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6/19/08