This paper contributes to the literature on the use of anonymized firm level data by reporting results from a replication study. To test for the practical usefulness of anonymized data I selected two of my published papers based on different cross sections of firm data. The data used there were...

Frontmatter -- Inhalt / Contents -- Abhandlungen/Original Papers -- Guest Editorial "Econometrics of Anonymized Micro Data" -- Data Masking by Noise Addition and the Estimation of Nonparametric Regression Models / Lechner, Sandra / Pohlmeier, Winfried -- The Effect of Microaggregation Procedures...