Industrial espionage has been the name of the game for quite a while now. Different tactics are being utilized by companies to undermine attacks to their rivals in the business world. Industrial spies also take advantage of all the weak points in a company's security systems. Different...

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. Based on a dataset that comprises the entire flow of...