's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany. Based …In this paper, we investigate the economic returns to industrial espionage by linking information from East Germany …-1989, we document a significant narrowing of sectoral West-to-East TFP gaps as a result of East Germany's industrial espionage …

suggests that a shortfall in productivity-enhancing investments temporarily slows technological progress, creating a gap … the Global Financial Crisis, I show that tight credit reduced investments in productivity-enhancement, and significantly ….2% higher today if productivity-enhancing investment intensity had remained at its pre-crisis level …

We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

total factor productivity. We exploit time, country, and industry differences in the opening of EU labor markets from 2004 …

model predicts the impact of different patterns of state ownership and/or political connectedness on firm productivity …, and total factor productivity (TFP) using firm-level data for China between 1998 and 2007. We find, consistent with the …