Europe a positive impulse towards the development of representative democracy. It shows that contemporary regimes are shaped …

Digital platforms like Uber can enhance market transparency and mitigate moral hazard via ratings of buyers and sellers …

We characterize the price-transparency role of benchmarks in over-the-counter markets. A benchmark can, under … dealers and customers, and reducing search costs. Although the market transparency promoted by benchmarks reduces dealers …

Medical provider price transparency is often touted as a way to lower health care spending. But the impact of price … transparency is theoretically ambiguous: it could lower health care spending via increased consumer price shopping or improved … a randomized-controlled trial to examine the impact of a state-wide medical charge transparency tool in outpatient …

two interest groups defined by land ownership that the effects of democratization--a shift from control of public … interests of the two land classes, we find, based on 30-year panel data describing the democratization of Indian villages, that … democratization in villages with a larger landless population share shifted resources away from public irrigation, secondary schools …

democracy and favors the process of democratization. We combine survey data with country-level measures of democracy from 1960 …

argue that the plebiscite contributed to the emergence of one party rule the twenty years following democratization …

We present a model of a peaceful transition from autocracy to democracy using federal governance as a constitutional …