Industrial Espionage and Productivity

In this paper, we investigate the economic returns to industrial espionage by linking information from East Germany's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany.

Who

Albrecht Glitz (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

Where

IWH conference room

Personal details

Albrecht Glitz is an Associate Professor and Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Department of Economics and Business). His research interests are Labour Economics, Economics of Immigration and Applied Econometrics.

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