transparency about the professional competence of candidates during the judicial selection process. The Council denied access to …

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

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 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 …

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

I consider the role of firm transparency in shaping its capital structure. In a costly-state-verification model, the … optimally choose zero leverage and finance themselves with equity. If firms can increase their transparency at a cost – say by …

provide guidance for improving transparency while maintaining trader confidentiality. In addition, we analyze liquidity in the …

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 …

industries sector: The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (hereafter the EITI) and the EU Directives. Moreover, the … study briefly discusses the meaning of the good governance concept and the significance of the principles of transparency as …