Replication data for: Quality Disclosure Programs and Internal Organizational Practices: Evidence from Airline Flight Delays

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Silke J. Forbes; Mara Lederman; Trevor Tombe

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Project Citation:

Forbes, Silke J., Lederman, Mara, and Tombe, Trevor. Replication data for: Quality Disclosure Programs and Internal Organizational Practices: Evidence from Airline Flight Delays. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2015. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114326V1

Project Description

Summary: Disclosure programs exist in many industries in which consumers are poorly informed about product quality. We study a disclosure program for airline on-time performance, which ranks airlines based on the fraction of their flights that arrive less than 15 minutes late. The program creates incentives for airlines to focus their efforts on flights close to this threshold. We find that firms in this industry are heterogeneous in how they respond to these incentives. Moreover, this heterogeneity correlates with internal firm characteristics. Our findings highlight the importance of interactions between incentives created by a disclosure program and firms' internal organizational practices. (JEL D22, L15, L25, L93)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      D22 Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
      L15 Information and Product Quality; Standardization and Compatibility
      L25 Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
      L93 Air Transportation

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V1 [2019-10-12]

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