06
Nov
2017
14:15
- 15:45
IWH Research Seminar
Industrial Espionage and Productivity
Who
Albrecht Glitz
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Where
IWH conference room
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.