BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251209T194221EST-1207TV0iVo@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20251210T004221Z DESCRIPTION:\n\nTwo Essays on SEC Reporting Rules\n\nFriday\, December 12\, 2025\, at 12:30pm\n\nTomas Milo\, a doctoral student at 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ in the area of Accounting will be presenting his research proposal entitl ed:\n\n(The presentation will be conducted on Zoom)\n\nStudent Committee c hair: Professor Hongping Tan and Professor Dongyoung Lee\n\n\nABSTRACT\n\n This thesis comprises two essays that examine the consequences of Securiti es and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting rules on capital market partici pants and corporate behavior.\n\nIn the first essay\, I investigate the im pact of the SEC’s 2017 mandate requiring Foreign Private Issuers (FPIs) us ing IFRS to file annual reports in XBRL format. Leveraging this regulatory setting\, I document a significant increase in individual ownership for F PIs subject to the mandate. Empirical tests provide evidence that this inc rease is mainly driven by local individual investors in the FPIs’ home cou ntries\, rather than foreign individual investors. The effect is more pron ounced when the FPI’s home country exhibits higher financial literacy and when the XBRL filings are more informative.\n\nIn the second essay\, I stu dy how managers determine disclosure thresholds for environmental legal pr oceedings following the SEC’s 2020 modernization of Regulation S-K Item 10 3. This reform allows firms to replace a bright-line reporting threshold w ith a higher\, firm-specific cutoff. I find that the new regime produces a bimodal distribution of disclosures where firms cluster at either the min imum or maximum permitted thresholds\, consistent with a corner-solution e quilibrium. Firms with larger environmental penalties and higher proprieta ry costs are more likely to adopt the maximum threshold to minimize disclo sure. Using a difference-in-differences approach based on firms’ pre-refor m violations\, I show that firms whose violations become less likely to be disclosed under the higher threshold subsequently increase pollution leve ls.\n DTSTART:20251212T173000Z DTEND:20251212T193000Z SUMMARY:PhD Research Proposal Presentation: Tomas Milo URL:/bensadoun-school/channels/event/phd-research-prop osal-presentation-tomas-milo-369577 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR