Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/247408 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
JRC Digital Economy Working Paper No. 2020-08
Publisher: 
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Seville
Abstract: 
We study the case of a Chinese industrial policy, implemented in Shanghai, that makes it mandatory for car manufacturers to share electro-mechanical performance and real time navigation data from their entire fleet of electric and hybrid vehicles with local and central government authorities. This policy seeks to reduce emissions, assess the performance of New Energy Vehicles (NEVs), prevent fraud in state subsidies and strengthen the competitiveness of Chinese manufacturers of these vehicles. We argue that economies of scope in data aggregation may provide traditional market failure arguments for government intervention and mandatory data pooling. Our paper also illustrates how data access regulation could be used for economic regime competition. The EU and China pursue very similar data policy goals that hinge on economies of scope in data aggregation. However, they follow very different political processes to achieve these goals.
Subjects: 
Data access
data regime competition
B2G vehicle data sharing
China
data governance
data sharing and access rights
regime competition
industrial policy
JEL: 
L11
L41
L43
L62
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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