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Open Access to Research Data: Strategic Delay and the Ambiguous Welfare Effects of Mandatory Data Disclosure
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Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD)
Abstract
Mandatory data disclosure is an essential feature for credible empirical work but comes at a cost: First, authors might invest less in data generation if they are not the full residual claimants of their data after their first publication. Second, authors might strategically delay the time of submis... view more
Mandatory data disclosure is an essential feature for credible empirical work but comes at a cost: First, authors might invest less in data generation if they are not the full residual claimants of their data after their first publication. Second, authors might strategically delay the time of submission of papers in order to fully exploit their data in subsequent research. We analyze a three-stage model of publication and data disclosure. We derive exact conditions for positive welfare effects of mandatory data disclosure. However, we find that the transition to mandatory data disclosure has negative welfare properties if authors delay strategically.... view less
Keywords
data access; data exchange; open access; research policy
Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Free Keywords
data disclosure policy; strategic delay; welfare effects
Document language
English
Publication Year
2014
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
42 p.
Series
RatSWD Working Paper Series, 239
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/98845
Status
Published Version; reviewed