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title: Data Breach Laws and Stock Price
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4751586/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4751586
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4751586
featured: 2024-03-13
citations: unknown
topic: Corporate Finance
---


# Data Breach Laws and Stock Price

Research shows that laws requiring firms to disclose data breaches increase future stock price crash risk, especially for firms with weak governance and high financial constraints.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4751586
- Identifier: SSRN 4751586
- Released: 2023-03-28
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 40 (2024-03-13): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-03-13/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Corporate Finance

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