National Security.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Conference news - Brief article

The NBER's Working Group on the Economics of National Security, directed by NBER President-Emeritus Martin Feldstein of Harvard University, met in Cambridge on February 24. The following papers were discussed:

* Effie Benmelech, Harvard University and NBER; Claude Berrebi, RAND Corporation; and Esteban F. Klor, Hebrew University, "Economic Conditions and the Quality of Suicide Terrorism"

* Nayantara Hensel, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, "Globalization and the U.S. Defense Industrial Postgraduate School Base"

* Jonathan Lipow, Oberlin University, and Peter Berck, University of California, Berkeley, "Did Monetary Forces Turn the Tide in Iraq?"

* Diana Lien, Aline Quester, and Robert Shuford, Center for Naval Analyses, "Marine Corps Deployment Tempo and Retention from FY04 to FY07"

* Eli Berman, University of California, San Diego and NBER, "Religious Radicalism and...