Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2015
state surveillance on social capital and economic performance. Using county-level variation in the spy density in the 1980s …, we exploit discontinuities at state borders to show that higher levels of Stasi surveillance led to lower levels of … losses throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Overall, our results suggest that the social and economic costs of state surveillance …