We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by … transparency. A plausible story that fits our results is that there may be two countervailing forces at play. First, more rapid … policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption. …

basic building block of individual accounts. This ensures the important design feature of transparency, the "enabler" of …

suppose that greater transparency would enhance incentives. Therefore, it is puzzling that team production often lacks … transparency about individual contributions despite negligible costs for providing such information. We offer a rationale for this … by demonstrating that transparency can actually hurt incentives. In the presence of career concerns information on the …

of moral ideal, we show that the impact of transparency is conditional on the length of the transfer chain and on the … intermediary will embezzle less. Senders react positively to a reduction of the length of the chain but negatively to transparency. …