Europe a positive impulse towards the development of representative democracy. It shows that contemporary regimes are shaped …

Digital platforms like Uber can enhance market transparency and mitigate moral hazard via ratings of buyers and sellers …

We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by … transparency. A plausible story that fits our results is that there may be two countervailing forces at play. First, more rapid … policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption …

We characterize the price-transparency role of benchmarks in over-the-counter markets. A benchmark can, under … dealers and customers, and reducing search costs. Although the market transparency promoted by benchmarks reduces dealers …

labor market information. The subsequent sections discuss complications regarding labor market transparency in the context … of international migration and public policy and policy implications regarding labor market transparency. A final section …

This paper investigates the role of violent civil conflicts during the process of democratization for the quality of … different groups may engage in violent conflict in order to become the ruler predicts a crucial role of the democratization … scenario. A peaceful democratization leads to democracies with a high degree of civil liberties, reflecting a social contract …

We present a model of a peaceful transition from autocracy to democracy using federal governance as a constitutional …

We study the process of endogenous democratization from inefficient oligarchic systems in an economy where … the conditions under which democratization initially takes place. The political regime and the extent of redistribution …