to promote greater local benefit capture. Practitioners and academics have noted, however, that transparency alone does …

respect to transparency. Previous literature has argued that domestic factors such as macroeconomic stability were behind the … trend toward greater transparency. In contrast, our results indicate that transparency primarily increased because of a … from each other's experiences regarding transparency. To our knowledge, our paper is the first econometric analysis of peer …

We analyze price transparency in a dynamic market with private information and interdependent values. Uninformed buyers …

details, which leads to mistrust. We argue that lack of transparency may explain high dropout rates in Ghana and other …

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 …