Threshold Effects · Category

Disclosure

2 issues in this category, newest first.

  1. No. 002

    Cover-Yourself 8-Ks

    When the SEC required four-business-day incident disclosure, firms responded with “cover yourself 8-Ks.” Organizations don't respond to regulatory intent — they respond to regulatory incentives.

  2. No. 001

    The Faster-Is-Better Assumption

    The assumption behind mandatory breach disclosure timing is that faster equals better. Across 1,054 breach events and three empirical channels, that assumption doesn't hold up well.