Companies are under an increasing pressure by policy makers to publicize data breaches. Such notification obligations require announcing the loss of personal data collected from customers, because of hacker attacks or other incidents. While notification is likely to impact on firms' reputation,...

Breaches of the security of personal data collected by firms are reported almost daily. Companies are under an increasing political pressure to notify individuals whose privacy as been breached. At the moment, we know virtually nothing about the behavioral impact of data breach notifications. We...

This paper examines whether the transparency in ESG reporting helps listed firms in the UK better mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. We investigate 179 listed firms from August 2019 to May 2020. The results show that the performance spread of firms with high ESG disclosure score is...