Albornoz, Facundo; Esteban, Joan; Vanin, Paolo - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 12 (2014) 1, pp. 200-222
In this paper, we investigate how government transparency depends on economic distortions. We first consider an abstract class of economies in which a benevolent policy maker is privately informed about the exogenous state of the economy and contemplates whether to release this information. Our...