Tylaite, Milda

Milda Tylaite is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Accounting. She has defended her PhD dissertation on the  non-financial determinants of corporate tax outcomes in Swedish listed and private firms in December 2018 at the Stockholm School of Economics. In 2019 she was awarded a Wallander scholarship for her dissertation.

Milda conducts quantitative research with the areas of  corporate taxation, audit, and corporate governance. In her current projects, Milda focuses on unique Swedish data on private firms, their governance, ownership, and monitoring structures, and collaborates with colleagues at SSE as well as top international researchers. 

Milda has teaching experience within introductory and advanced financial reporting as well as thesis supervision at BSc. and MSc. levels. 

Research interests:

- Corporate tax avoidance

- Corporate governance and monitoring

- Financial reporting choices

- Private firms

Current teaching: 

- 3305: Financial Reporting from a Preparers' Perspective

- 3350: Thesis in Accounting and Financial Management 

Research publications and highlighted work in progress: 

Hjelström, T., Kallunki, J. P., Nilsson, H., & Tylaite, M. (2020). Executives’ Personal Tax Behavior and Corporate Tax Avoidance Consistency. European Accounting Review, 29(3), 493-520.

Ivanova, M., Nilsson, M., & Tylaite, M. (2020). Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery: Directors’ and CEOs’ Prior Bankruptcy Experiences and the Financial Risk of their Current Firms. R&R at Journal of Business Finance & Accounting. 

Dong, T., Nilsson, H., & Tylaite, M. (2020) Auditor Assurance and Credit Institutions: How Auditors Can Contribute to High-Quality Credit Decisions. Sweden through the Crisis, Stockholm School of Economics.