Fourth NEAT Workshop

NEAT held its fourth workshop in Brussels at the European Commission's Borschette Centre on Monday, October 19, 2009. The workshop's  focus was on "Recent Economic Research on Issues of Terrorism: Research that Informs Policy". The program for this workshop can be downloaded here. To download the original call for papers for this workshop, please click here.

Third NEAT Workshop

NEAT held its third workshop on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at DIW Berlin.  The workshop was entitled, "Government Policies in the Fight against Terrorism: Costs and Benefits". The workshop focused on two important aspects of the economic analysis of terrorism: CBRN threats and the government use of privately-collected data in the fight against terrorism. Click here to download the workshop program.

Second NEAT Workshop: The network held its second workshop, entitled "The Economic Analysis of Terrorism: The Current State of Research and its Policy Relevance," on September 22, 2008 in Brussels. Click here to download the workshop invitation.

First NEAT Workshop

On Tuesday, 22 April 2008, DIW Berlin held the first workshop of the international "Network for the Economic Analysis of Terrorism" (NEAT). This workshop consisted of four academic presentations and discussion sessions, as well as a panel discussion on the known and unknown aspects of terrorism and security economics.

Workshop presentations are availabe for download on the Resources page. Summaries of the workshop are available here.

Short Summary (1 page)

Long Summary (12 pages)

NEAT Call for Papers: NEAT is inviting the submission of papers pertaining to the economics of security. Accepted papers will be published on this website and will be presented at the second NEAT workshop in Brussels. (Call Closed)

Vacancy: Short-Term Junior Consultant
DIW Berlin is seeking a short-term junior consultant to join the project team on issues related to conflict (Position Filled)