Glitz, Albrecht; Meyersson, Erik - 2017
'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 …