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 …

: transparency of actual monetary policy and the question of who bears final responsibility for monetary policy. The paper shows that … accountability through transparency leads to a lower expected rate of inflation and less stabilization of supply shocks …