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title: Data Privacy Risk at Firms
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5216040/
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 5216040
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5216040
featured: 2025-04-16
citations: unknown
topic: Corporate Finance
---


# Data Privacy Risk at Firms

A study finds that companies with higher data privacy risks have lower earnings and higher bank loan costs, based on analysis of earnings call transcripts.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5216040
- Identifier: SSRN 5216040
- Released: 2025-04-14
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 93 (2025-04-16): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-04-16/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Corporate Finance

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