CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ANALYSIS OF QUALITY DISCLOSURE OF NON-FINANCIAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS IN INDONESIA STOCK EXCHANGE COMPANIES

This study discusses the effect of profitability, company size, leverage, public ownership and type of auditor on the quality of financial statement disclosure of non-financial companies on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX).Research population is companies in the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2014-2018. The total population in the year of research was 627 companies and the samples that fit the criteria were 358 companies. Retrieval data was tested by using panel regression.From these results, it indicates the variable profitability have no significant on the quality of financial of financial statement disclosures (p=0,232 > 0,05). Company size has positive and significant effect on the quality of financial statement disclosures (p=0,002 < 0,05). Leverage does not significantly influence on the quality of financial statement disclosures (p=0,560 > 0,05). Community ownership does not significantly influence on the quality of financial statement disclosures (p=0,176 > 0,05). Type of auditor has positive and significant effect on the quality of financial statement disclosures (p=0,018 < 0,05).

Competition and Schedule Padding in the US Airline Industry

Disclosure programs can help consumers with limited information about product quality make better purchase decisions. A quality disclosure mandate such as the On-Time Disclosure Rule in the U.S. that requires airlines to provide information on the quality of their products can be beneficial, but can also be counterproductive if it encourages airlines to act deceptively by “gaming” the system. If airlines care about public perceptions of their on-time record, they have an incentive to improve their on-time performance ranking by resorting to unscrupulous means such as padding their schedules beyond normal time required to absorb scheduling stochastic fluctuations. This study investigates the impact of competition on airline schedule padding. We construct a measure for schedule padding under different optimal flight time choices. Using different measures of market structure, we find that more competitive (concentrated) markets are subject to less (more) schedule padding.

Quality Disclosure Under Consumer Loss Aversion

Consumers experience a sense of loss when a product’s quality does not match their expectations. To alleviate consumer loss aversion (CLA), firms can disclose information to reduce consumers’ uncertainty about product quality and the resulting psychological loss. In this paper, we investigate the implications of CLA on firm profit, consumer surplus, and social welfare when firms endogenously make quality disclosure decisions. We find that CLA leads symmetric firms to disclose quality more often. Given that CLA weakly reduces consumers’ utility from buying a product and quality disclosure is costly, intuition suggests that CLA is detrimental to firms. We find that this intuition is true only in a monopoly. Surprisingly, CLA makes both firms in a competition better off. Moreover, CLA increases firms’ profit when they invest in quality disclosure instead of money-back guarantees to respond to CLA. We also find that CLA decreases consumer surplus and social welfare. Therefore, educating consumers to improve decision-making skills by deliberating on future outcomes and emotions can benefit firms at the cost of consumers and society. When firms disclose quality sequentially, CLA can discourage the follower from disclosing quality. A strong level of CLA increases the leader’s profit over the follower’s, thereby encouraging firms to be the first mover in quality disclosure. This paper was accepted by Juanjuan Zhang, marketing.

The Disclosure of Quality on Tourism Performance: Evidence from Top Tourist Cities in China

This article takes advantage of the designation of top tourist cities in China to estimate the impact of quality disclosure on the city tourism economy. According to theories regarding quality disclosure and certification, we develop a tourism promotion hypothesis for the designation, which is then tested with panel data from China’s 284 prefectural-level cities between 2000 and 2015. The difference-in-differences approach shows that gaining the designation increases both domestic and inbound tourism revenues, which is robust to various specifications. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the tourism promotion effect only persists for about three years, decreases over time, is smaller in developed areas, and is less salient for multiple or county-level designations.