This article is a literature review where the aim is to define a status quaestionis for the field of
economic and industrial espionage. History shows how those who engage in these activities …

In this paper, we consider how the development of targeted ransomware has affected the
dynamics of ransomware negotiations to better understand how to respond to ransomware …

Recent advances in information and communication technologies have increased the
incentives for firms to acquire information about rivals. These advances may have major …

In the context of a duopoly market, firms can learn about unobservable demand from two
sources: conducting market research, and spying on their competitor's market research …

We explore the efficacy of counterespionage measures in the realm of Economic Espionage.
Although it is possible that increasing counterespionage measures has the desired effect of …

This paper considers a duopoly in which one firm doesn't know its rival's realized cost but
can invest in competitive intelligence (CI) to gather information before competition. The …

Two players with independent private values compete for a prize in an all-pay contest.
Before the contest, each player can spy on the opponent by privately acquiring a costly …

In markets, such as those for airline tickets and hotel accommodations, firms sell time-dated
products and have private information about unsold capacities. We show that competition …

We analyze spying out a rival's price in a general duopoly model with differentiated products
where payoff functions are strictly supermodular and firms are subject to incomplete …

We study the implications of endogenous pricing for learning and welfare in the classic
herding model. When prices are determined exogenously, it is known that learning occurs if …