This study tests for the relation between corporate transparency and foreign direct investment (FDI) using a sample of … 118 countries. The study also develops a set of indicators to measure corporate transparency. The findings indicate … support for the hypotheses that a) greater levels of corporate transparency are associated with higher levels of inward FDI …

: transparency of actual monetary policy and the question of who bears final responsibility for monetary policy. The paper shows that … accountability through transparency leads to a lower expected rate of inflation and less stabilization of supply shocks …

In most of the existing academic literature the notion of transparency in monetary policy is defined in too simple … potentially conflicting - aspects of transparency. When there are frictions in communication or imperfections in the processing of … this perspective transparency primarily hinges on a shared mode of interpretation ('common understanding') between the …

concept of transparency of an ownership structure is defined. Implications of non-transparency for general equilibrium theory …

simultaneously open for trading under two different mechanisms and show how the comparative levels of pre-trade market transparency …

This paper studies optimal financial contracts and product market competition under a strategic transparency decision …, the dominant lender can influence corporate transparency. More transparency about a firm's competitive position has both … strategic advantages and disadvantages: in general, transparency results in higher variability of profits and output. Thus …