Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/321871 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 25-036
Publisher: 
ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung, Mannheim
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.
Subjects: 
matching
firms
text as data
scientific use files
JEL: 
L00
C8
C55
C61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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