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 …