The paper studies the role of information transparency on fairness concerns, welfare and e ciency. When the rm's productivity and ultimately pro ts are revealed, wage o ers induce relatively fair divisions of potential gains and workers respond with higher performance. Workers respond not only to wages but also to rms' intentions concerning fairness. Information transparency serves as a mechani...

Add a stage of signal acquisition to a canonical model of portfolio choice. Under fully revealing asset price, investors’ information demand reflects their choice of transparency. In reducing uncertainty, financial transparency raises expected asset price and thus benefits holders of the risky asset. At a natural transparency limit, however, investors pay to inhibit further disclosure in order ...

We design an experiment to examine behavior and welfare in a multi-level trust game representing a pass through investment in an intermediated market. In a repeated game, an investor invests via an intermediary who lends to a borrower. A pre-experiment one-shot version of the game serves as a baseline and to type each subject. We alter the transparency of exchanges between non-adjacent parties....