. This paper shows that such economic transparency could give central banks greater flexibility to respond to macroeconomic …

Central bank independence and transparency have become best practice in monetary policy. This paper cautions that … transparency about economic information may not be beneficial in the absence of central bank independence. The reason is that it …

This paper reports the results of a survey among private sector economists about credibility and transparency of …

Transparency has become a prominent feature of monetary policy. This paper provides an overview of central bank … communication practices and is the first to systematically analyze transparency trends throughout the world and across monetary … inflation and economic development have undergone larger increases in transparency. Moreover, it shows that greater transparency …

This paper investigates the effects on tacit collusion of increased market transparency on the consumer side of a … market in a differentiated Hotelling duopoly. Increasing market transparency increases the benefits to a firm from … sustain. In the limiting homogeneous market, the effect vanishes. Here market transparency does not affect the possibilities …

two signals depends on the transparency of the country. Greater transparency reduces risk premia. The empirical results … markets are unsure about the true extent of creative accounting. Fiscal transparency reduces risk premia. …