Calendrier du 24 novembre 2016
Travail et économie publique externe
Du 24/11/2016 de 12:45 à 14:00
Campus jourdan, Bâtiment G, Rez de chaussée, Salle 10
GLITZ Albrecht (Humboldt University Berlin)
Industrial Espionage and Productivity
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 data set that comprises the entire flow of information provided by East German informants over the period 1969-1989, we document a significant narrowing of sectoral West-to-East TFP gaps as a result of East Germany’s industrial espionage. This central finding holds across a wide range of specifications and is robust to the inclusion of several alternative proxies for technology transfer. We further demonstrate that the economic returns to industrial espionage are particularly strong in sectors that were closer to the West German technology frontier and – albeit less precisely estimated – in sectors in which constraints to the import of goods and services were particularly pronounced. Finally, our findings show that over the time period considered, industrial espionage crowded out standard overt R&D in East Germany.
Behavior seminar
Du 24/11/2016 de 12:00 à 13:00
Campus jourdan,Bâtiment A, Rez de chaussée, Salle 2
PONTHIÈRE Grégory ()
Missing poor, selection bias and counterfactuals
écrit avec Mathieu Lefebvre et Pierre Pestieau