Disclosure risk for firms in combined firm-datasets


Breithaupt, Patrick ; Gottschalk, Sandra


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URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-709354
Document Type: Working paper
Year of publication: 2025
The title of a journal, publication series: ZEW Discussion Papers
Volume: 25-036
Place of publication: Mannheim
Publication language: English
Institution: Sonstige Einrichtungen > ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
MADOC publication series: Veröffentlichungen des ZEW (Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung) > ZEW Discussion Papers
Subject: 330 Economics
Classification: JEL: L00 , C8 , C55 , C61,
Keywords (English): matching , firms , text as data , scientific use files
Abstract: Past studies have successfully shown that the level of anonymisation of scientific use files (SUF) is sufficiently high to protect against disclosure attacks that use data from traditional firm databases. However, with the increasing availability of online data about firms, new challenges for the provision of SUFs arise. In this paper, we therefore focus on a scenario, where an attack against the Mannheim Innovation Panel SUF is performed using data from the Mannheim Enterprise Panel and Mannheim Web Panel. We find that the disclosure risk of our attack is small and increases only slightly if data from the Mannheim Web Panel are considered. Data protection officers may use our findings when researchers want to publish SUFs.




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