Jurnal Dinamika Akuntansi dan Bisnis (JDAB)
Vol 7, No 1 (2020): March 2020

Income Smoothing, Default Risk and Stock Price Crashes: The Moderating Effect of Manager Age

Sansaloni Butar-Butar (Universitas Katolik Soegijapranata)



Article Info

Publish Date
16 Apr 2020

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the moderating role of manager age on the association between income smoothing and stock price crashes and the association between default risk and stock price crashes. The data was collected from the samples of 182 companies firms listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2013 to 2017 (910 firm-year observation). Using the multivariate analysis as the data analysis method, this study revealed that manager age and default risk were negatively associated with stock price crashes. On the other hand, the income smoothing was not significantly associated with stock price crashes. With regard to moderating effect of manager age, the results showed that manager age effect the association between default risk and stock price crashes with a positive direction. Meanwhile, no significant effect of manager age on the association between income smoothing and stock price crashes is found in this study.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JDAB

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance Social Sciences

Description

Jurnal Dinamika Akuntansi dan Bisnis (JDAB) is a biannual peer-reviewed and open-access journal published by Accounting Department, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Indonesia, in collaboration with the Institute of Indonesia Chartered Accountant. JDAB was first published in March 2014 and made accessible ...