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Data Risk, Firm Growth and Innovation

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  • da Costa Gomes, Orlando Manuel
  • Mihet, Roxana
  • Rishabh, Kumar

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In today’s modern economy, data stands as a critical asset for firms, yet it is fraught with risks including loss and destruction. In this paper, we examine how data risk impacts firm growth, financial outcomes, and innovation activities. Examining the universe of U.S. publicly listed firms from 2000 to 2022, we find that higher data risk reduces knowledge stocks, decreases productivity, and lows growth for the average firm in the U.S. economy. Notwithstanding, there exists a select group of AI-intensive firms, highly exposed to data risk, which develop data protection strategies that enhance productivity in other domains. This positive spillover leads to higher innovation and profitability for these firms. The mechanism is that the same data engineers who develop data protection at these firms are also among the same inventors doing product innovation for these firms. In a second stage, we develop a structural heterogeneous-firm growth model of the data economy to rationalise the empirical findings and to provide some comparative statics exercises.

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  • da Costa Gomes, Orlando Manuel & Mihet, Roxana & Rishabh, Kumar, 2023. "Data Risk, Firm Growth and Innovation," CEPR Discussion Papers 18668, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:18668
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    Keywords

    Data economy;

    JEL classification:

    • D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
    • O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights
    • O4 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity
    • G3 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance
    • L1 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance
    • L2 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
    • M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration

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