DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15131259
title: FCC Product Authorizations

description: This dataset provides information about products submitted to the U.S. Fedetal Communications Commission, web-scraped from its website (https://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/fccid) and enhanced with PatentsView data. Further information available in code and forthcoming paper.

Files:



fcc_products_analysis.csv.gz – the main data file

analysis.ipynb – regression discontinuity design analysis, some descriptive statistics

analysis.Rmd – difference in differences analysis, summary statistics, plots


Variables:



'fccid' – commonly used product IDs, but not unique and not used in our analysis

'app_id' – ID number of the FCC application, unique per row

'grantee_country' – unique applicant identifier

'country' – country of applicant

'application_date' – date of submission to the FCC, primary date variable

'years_to_treatment' – years to the transparency shock, 0 for the uptake period

'freq_output_new' – binary variable, 1 if product contains new combination of wireless frequencies

'recent_patent' – binary variable, 1 if firm patented in prior 3 years

'deregulated' – binary variable, 1 if product category has been deregulated

'internet' – binary variable, 1 if product contains wireless internet connectivity

'secrecy' – binary variable, 1 if FCC submission claimed long-term confidentiality

'treated' – binary variable, 0 in the pre-period, 1 in the post- period, NA in the uptake period

'class' – product class

'description' – product description

'has_exhibits' – binary variable, 1 if the submission was digitized and includes documentation in PDF

'survival_1y' – binary variable, 1 if the firm submitted at least one product {1, 3, 5} or more years after the application_date

'survival_3y'

'survival_5y'

'freq_output_self_apps' – count of future products with the same frequency combination by the same firm (within 5 years, default)

'freq_output_early_apps' – count of future products with the same frequency combination by other firms (within 5 years, default)

'freq_output_3y_self_apps' – count of future products with the same frequency combination by the same firm (within 3 years)

'freq_output_3y_early_apps' – count of future products with the same frequency combination by other firms (within 3 years)

'freq_output_7y_self_apps' – count of future products with the same frequency combination by the same firm (within 7 years)

'freq_output_7y_early_apps' – count of future products with the same frequency combination by other firms (within 7 years)

'freq_output_inclass_apps' – count of future products with the same frequency combination by other firms in the same class

'freq_output_outclass_apps' – count of future products with the same frequency combination by other firms in a different class

'freq_output_class_incumbent_apps' – count of future products with the same frequency combination by other incumbent firms

'freq_output_class_entrant_apps' – count of future products with the same frequency combination by other class entrant firms 'freq_output_entrant_apps' – count of future products with the same frequency combination by other entrant firms



'freq_output_domestic_apps' – count of future products with the same frequency combination by other domestic firms




'freq_output_foreign_wto_apps' – count of future products with the same frequency combination by foreign firms from countries joining WTO prior to 1998




'freq_output_foreign_non_wto_apps' – count of future products with the same frequency combination by foreign firms from countries not joining WTO prior to 1998




'freq_output_foreign_china_apps' – count of future products with the same frequency combination by foreign firms from China




'freq_output_foreign_taiwan_apps' – count of future products with the same frequency combination by foreign firms from Taiwan




'freq_output_foreign_non_wto_non_china_taiwan_apps' – count of future products with the same frequency combination by foreign firms from countries not joining WTO prior to 1998, and excluding China and Taiwan




'freq_output_foreign_us_apps' – count of future products with the same frequency combination by foreign firms from the U.S.




'freq_output_foreign_wto_non_us_apps' – count of future products with the same frequency combination by foreign firms from countries joining WTO prior to 1998, and excluding the U.S.