Big data technology may improve the quality of environmental information disclosure and address the challenge of information asymmetry. This study adopts a difference-in-differences strategy to investigate the effectiveness of the big data-based environmental information disclosure system...

Big data - unstructured and/or structured data being used to influence underwriting, rating, pricing, forms, marketing and claims handling and incentivize risk reduction - is a relatively recent development in the insurance industry, the data sets previously being too impossibly great to analyse...