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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011

 

Economics of National Security Workshop

 

Martin Feldstein, Organizer

 

July 25, 2011

 

Skyline Suites, West Tower

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Skyline Suites

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 25:

 

 

8:45 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:15 am

Ioana Petrescu, University of Maryland

 

Black Markets and Economic Sanctions

 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

 

10:45 am

Colonel Michael Meese, U.S. Military Academy at West Point

 

Economic Development in Conflict and Post Conflict Situations: A Current Outlook on Afghanistan

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Ryan Edwards, City University of New York at Queens College and NBER

 

A Review of War Costs in Iraq and Afghanistan

 

 

2:15 pm

Jeffrey Friedman, Harvard University

 

Manpower in Counterinsurgency: Empirical Foundations for Theory and Doctrine

 

 

3:30 pm

Break

 

 

3:45 pm

Colonel Joe Felter, Stanford University

 

Reconstruction and Violence in the Philippines

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn