Mannheim Privacy Policy Panel (MaPPP)

1. Short Description The Mannheim Privacy Policy Panel (MaPPP) contains the texts of 1,775,388 million privacy policies posted by 311,539 German firms between 2012 and 2021. The files were collected from the Internet Archive via the Wayback Machine. The MaPPP is an unbalanced quarterly panel. For details on the data construction, consult the data appendix of the following paper: Ganglmair, B., J. Krämer, and J. Gambato. 2024. Regulatory Compliance with Limited Enforceability: Evidence from Privacy Policies. Unpublished manuscript, available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=4600876. 2. Data Files The repository contains 40 RDA files (R data files) with quarterly observations from Q1 2012 through Q4 2021. Each RDA file contains a data frame "mappp.policies" with 6 variables. The unique identifier for a policy is a firm_ID-period combination. Variable Description Example firm_ID firm identifier (crefo number; with suffix DE the same as the Orbis' BvDID 2010000001 period Quarter of the observation, in date format. January 1 (-01-01) is Q1; April 1 (-04-01) is Q2; July 1 (-07-01) is Q3; October 1 (-10-01) is Q4. 2018-07-01 date Date the policy was posted 2018-08-31 content Text of the privacy policy. (string) wordcount Simple word count 2522 URL URL of the privacy policy (not the Web Archive's address) http://wiener-conditorei.de/datenschutz/ 3. Data Access Access is restricted. Contact Bernhard Ganglmair at [e-mail] if you are interested in using the MaPPP for your research. 4. Citation Cite the following paper when using the data: Ganglmair, B., J. Krämer, and J. Gambato. 2024. Regulatory Compliance with Limited Enforceability: Evidence from Privacy Policies. Unpublished manuscript, available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=4600876.1. 简短说明 曼海姆隐私政策面板（Mannheim Privacy Policy Panel, MaPPP）收录了2012年至2021年间，311539家德国企业发布的1775388份隐私政策文本。该数据集的文件通过网络时光机（Wayback Machine）从互联网档案馆（Internet Archive）采集得到。MaPPP属于非平衡季度面板数据。 如需了解数据构建的详细细节，请参阅以下论文的数据附录： Ganglmair, B., J. Krämer, and J. Gambato. 2024. 监管合规与有限执行力：来自隐私政策的证据. 未发表手稿，可于https://ssrn.com/abstract=4600876获取。 2. 数据文件 本仓库包含40个RDA文件（R data files），涵盖2012年第一季度至2021年第四季度的季度观测数据。每个RDA文件均包含名为`mappp.policies`的数据集，内含6个变量。隐私政策的唯一标识符为企业ID与时期的组合。 变量 说明 示例 firm_ID 企业标识符（crefo编号；后缀为DE时与Orbis的BvDID一致） 2010000001 period 观测所属季度，采用日期格式。1月1日（-01-01）对应第一季度，4月1日（-04-01）对应第二季度，7月1日（-07-01）对应第三季度，10月1日（-10-01）对应第四季度 2018-07-01 date 隐私政策发布日期 2018-08-31 content 隐私政策文本（字符串类型） 无 wordcount 简易词数统计 2522 URL 隐私政策的原始URL（非网络档案馆存档地址） http://wiener-conditorei.de/datenschutz/ 3. 数据获取 本数据集的访问权限受限。若您有意将MaPPP用于学术研究，请联系Bernhard Ganglmair，邮箱地址为[e-mail]。 4. 引用 使用本数据集时，请引用以下论文： Ganglmair, B., J. Krämer, and J. Gambato. 2024. 监管合规与有限执行力：来自隐私政策的证据. 未发表手稿，可于https://ssrn.com/abstract=4600876获取。