Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2019 - This version: August 2019
We investigate the long-run effects of government surveillance on civic capital and economic performance, studying the …-reunification effect of government surveillance. We find that a higher spying density led to persistently lower levels of interpersonal and … institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We also find substantial and long-lasting economic effects of Stasi surveillance …