Abstract Campaign finance compliance and transparency reveal important non-policy attributes that voters care about. Using vignette conjoint survey experiments, I show in primary elections incorporate considerations into candidate selection. This effect persists even where the shares respondents’ preferred policy positions. The findings bring campaign scholarly conversation about valence. They ...

We examine the welfare implications of two types of central-bank transparency: the publication of the information underlying the central bank’s decision (decision transparency) and the release of the information that the central bank observes afterwards (postdecision transparency). Decision transparency does not make the public better informed in equilibrium. Even so, it may be socially desirab...

This study investigated the effects of price transparency on consumers’price perceptions. Our two-dimensional information transparency framework (sufficiency and diagnosticity of pricing information) is grounded in the Heuristic-Systematic Model of Persuasion. Real-life online hotel booking sites were used for hypothesis testing. Our results show that consumers’ price fairness perceptions and w...