Worldwide, open data initiatives aim at making information publicly available and transparent. Increasingly, local governments (LGs) are publishing financial statements in order to inform citizens, their function as both service recipients resource providers, about the LGs’ situation. However, it remains questionable whether LG appropriate mechanisms of public accountability: is debated, on one...

Provider organizations that have experience in implementing value-based physician compensation can recommend the following best practices, among others: Clearly link changes in physician compensation to the broader strategic and financial objectives of the organization. Focus financial incentives on evidence-based measures that physicians find credible and achievable. Make sure everyone underst...

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....

BACKGROUND Peer review is the most widely used method for evaluating grant applications in clinical research. Criticisms of peer review include lack of equity, suspicion of biases, and conflicts of interest (CoI). CoIs raise questions of fairness, transparency, and trust in grant allocation. Few observational studies have assessed these issues. We report the results of a qualitative study on re...

The CFPB, whose primary mission involves increasing transparency in financial markets and providing means to empower consumers to make solid financial decisions, has conducted research to better understand the problems consumers face in the mortgage closing process. Collected through reviews of consumer complaints, public requests for information, and interviews with consumers and industry stak...

This study aims to provide empirical evidence of the influence Presentation regional financial statements and accounting systems on transparency accountability management, with accessibility as a moderation. The reason for this research is an employee who works in finance department at apparatus organization Ternate City. respondents were employees worked department, which totaled 67 respondent...

Nodes in a financial network, such as banks, cannot assess the true risks associated with lending to other nodes in the network, unless they have full information on the riskiness of all other nodes. These risks can be estimated by using network metrics (as DebtRank) of the interbank liability network. With a simple agent based model we show that systemic risk in financial networks can be drast...

In this paper, we study the implications for business activity of a lack of balance sheet transparency in intermediaries. To do so, we adopt a model of intermediated entrepreneurial investment in which the assets held by intermediaries can be monitored only imperfectly. In our model, these assets matter, because intermediaries insure Þrms against the possibility of a liquidity shock. We show th...

The Financial Transparency System (FTS) of the European Commission contains information about grants for European Union projects starting from 2007. It allows users to get an overview on EU funding, including information on beneficiaries as well as the amount and type of expenditure and information on the responsible EU department. The original dataset is freely available on the European Commis...