Conflict and Cooperation Conference 2008

Conflict and Cooperation Conference
November 10-11, 2006

James L. Allen Center
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University
2169 North Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208

Organizer: Sandeep Baliga

Schedule of Events:

Time	Presenter	Title
Friday, November 10, 2006
8:30 - 9:30 am	Bruce Russett (Yale University)	Modelling Military Threats and Military Expenditures
10:00 - 11:00 am	Sandeep Baliga (Kellogg School of Management)	Strategic Ambiguity and Arms Proliferation (with Tomas Sjöström)
11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Roger Myerson (University of Chicago)	Leadership, Trust, and Constitutions (PDF)
Lunch: 12:30 - 2:00pm
2:00 - 3:00 pm	Effie Benmelech (Harvard University)	Attack Assignments in Terror Organizations and the Productivity of Suicide Bombers
3:30 - 4:30 pm	Eli Berman (University of California, San Diego)	Hard Targets: Evidence on the Tactical Use of Suicide Attacks (with David Laitin) (PDF 316 KB / 39 pages)
5:00 - 6:00 pm	Mariagiovanna Baccara (New York University)	How to Organize Crime (with Heski Bar-Isaac) (PDF)
7:00 pm	Conference Dinner Speaker: Antulio Echevarria (U.S. Army War College)	Does America Have a Way of War, or a Way of Battle? Does it Matter?

Time	Presenter	Title
Saturday, November 11, 2006
8:30 - 9:30 am	Anne Sartori (Princeton University)	Secrecy and War: The Origins of Private Information (with Adam Meirowitz) (277KB/ 31 pages)
10:00 - 11:00 am	Catherine Hafer (New York University)	Contests over Political Authority (329KB/25 pages)
11:20 - 12:30 pm	Avinash Dixit (Princeton University)	Predatory States and Failing States: An Agency Perspective (PDF 394 KB / 62 pages)