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One of the core requests in assuring competitiveness and sustainability in the food value chain is transparency. The … solutions that could solve the transparency problem at consumers’ end. This is where the Future Internet provides opportunities … that allowed to meet the challenge and to appropriately address the transparency problem. This paper introduces into the …
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Key issues in the effective delivery of EU-funded rural development programmes include simplification, transparency and …
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We present a research plan to assess the value of transparency by comparing pork supply chains in The Netherlands and … quality control institutions. We define chain configuration in terms of structure and transparency. In order to be able to …
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Does the general public know what central banks do? Is this kind of knowledge relevant? Using a survey of Dutch households, we investigate these questions for the case of the European Central Bank (ECB). Our findings suggest that knowledge on the ECB's objectives is far from perfect. Both a weak...
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. This raises the question of whether strengthening investor protection by requiring greater transparency necessarily …
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Transparency has gained much relevance in food chains. This paper summarizes the determinants of transparency and … points out that transparency in the sense of effective information exchange needs trust as a mediator in order to become a … the reciprocal and dynamic mechanisms of trust on transparency and vice versa. It is argued that both constructs should be …
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The aim of the present analysis is to shed light on the question whether Central Banks should publish their macroeconomic forecasts, and what could possibly be gained in monetary policy if they did so. We show that disclosing the Central Bank’s assessment of the prevailing inflationary...
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This paper argues that, despite the substantial independence offered by the Maastricht Treaty, the ESCB will wish to bind itself by a set of voluntary rules in the conduct of monetary policy. This binding will occur because of the demands of policy itself. The ESCB as such has no history of a...
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Since its inception, the European Central Bank (ECB) has regarded communication as anintegral part of its monetary policy. This paper describes and evaluates ECB communications during the first decade of its operation.We conclude that, overall, ECB communication has contributed to the...
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two signals depends on the transparency of the country. Greater transparency reduces risk premia. The empirical results … markets are unsure about the true extent of creative accounting. Fiscal transparency reduces risk premia. Instrumental …
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