Sunday, September 16, 2007

greenstone iraq paper

michael greenstone has written an econometric analysis of the effects on the surge in Iraq on key indicators of Iraqi stability such as casualties, guards trained, financial market indicators.

this looks likely to be a template for a lot of similar work applying economic analysis to contemporary controversies.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1014427%20

worth also reading Steven Levitt's commentary

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/

1 comment:

Carlos Bruen said...

Some comments on Greenstone's paper over on the Crooked Timber blog.