-level governance is claimed to pose several challenges to legitimacy. The aim of this paper is to review some legitimacy challenges in … multilevel governance contexts, and to analyse empirically biodiversity governance in different EU countries in the light of … transparency - serve as a framework for theoretical and empirical analysis. The analysis is based on twelve cases of multilevel …

on expanding the transparency of monetary and financial governance in the eurozone. The Ombudsman tends to adopt … stability. With growing powers, there is a correspondent demand for transparency of its decisions. This research presents an … account on how and in which conditions the European Ombudsman has been contributing to improve the ECB governance …

We explore whether the transparency in banks' lending activities enhances the harmonization of credit terms that a bank … information on loan characteristics and performance. We find that loans originated under the transparency regime share more … convergence in their credit terms, suggesting that transparency facilitates learning across a bank's different geographic regions …

widely examined. However, the interplay between the involved firms in a collusive agreement, i.e., the governance dimension … paper empirically reveals that polycentric structures within the cartel governance may contribute to longer duration and … aspects: The entangled governance structures of collusive undertakings as well as the relevance of polycentricity in the firm …