A lack of transparency about policy performance can pose a major obstacle to welfare-enhancing policy competition … misperceive the performance of their state’s education system. Experimentally providing performance information polarizes citizens …’ educational performance. Parliamentarians’ support for the transparency policy is opportunistic: Performance information increases …

, we find that competition, coupled with some minimal information, eliminates the trust problem almost completely …We study the effects of reputation and competition in a stylized market for experience goods. If interaction is … information by granting buyers access to all sellers' complete history has, somewhat surprisingly, no effect. On the other hand …