ABSTRAK
Hubungan antara informasi asimetri dan praktek perataan laba di IndonesiaThis paper conducts an empirical investigation about the relations/zip between information asymmelly and earnings management in Indonesia. When information asymmetry is high, the stakeholders do not have any information orresources to monitor and to know manager's activities which give rise to thepractice of earnings management. To provide evidence practices of earningmanagements and information asymmetry, this paper uses aggregate accrualswith modified Jones model and market microstructure theory. This paper employsreturn vtflatility, trading volume and quotes price for bid ask spread to proxy inmarket microstructure. This paper employs generalized least squares with 60 firmbalanced panel data in the 1994-199, and also addresses about the effect ofIndonesian financial crisis to the relationship between information asymmet1yand earnings management. We compare sub-sample before and in the financialcrisis period. Empirical result suggests a positive relationship betweeninformation asymmetry as measured by bid ask spreads and the level of earningsmanagement in Indonesia. This positive relationship is not ~ffected by Indonesianfinancial crisis.