“…The results showed that the enforcement of securities law must exceed a critical level to ensure a significant impact of corporate transparency on the home bias. To increase the validity of disclosed company information, false 13 Various other determinants of the equity home bias have been studied in the literature including barriers to foreign investment (Black, 1974;Stulz, 1981;Errunza and Losq, 1985), exchange rate volatility (Fidora et al, 2007), transaction costs (Martin and Rey, 2004;Portes and Rey, 2005), the risk of expropriation (Dahlquist et al, 2003;Kho et al, 2009;Leuz et al, 2009), trade costs in goods markets (Obstfeld and Rogoff, 2000;Coeurdacier, 2009), consumption risk (Hnatkovska, 2010), investors' inattentiveness (Mondria et al, 2010), diversification benefits (Coeurdacier and Guibaud, 2011), financial integration (Baele et al, 2007), or socio-economic features of investors (Karlsson and Nordén, 2007). reporting should be punished more efficiently by stratifying liability standards (i.e. easing the procedural difficulties for shareholders in recovering losses from the company and its management) and by increasing the staff of the national securities supervisory agency.…”