Session 14: The Economics of Transparency

The idea of this SITE session is to bring together theorists and empiricists working on topics of the economics of information transparency and disclosure across a wide range of fields including accounting, economics, finance, and law. We have two broad goals with this conference. The first is to provide a venue to discuss the latest frontier of research questions and techniques facing researchers studying transparency and disclosure topics across a variety of markets. This is particularly important at a time where regulators across the globe are increasingly relying on disclosure regulation to achieve various goals, including, for example, ensuring the stability of the banking sector, fostering quality through competition in the healthcare sector, improving the diversity of firms’ leadership positions, and combating climate change. Second, we wish to foster interdisciplinary discussion between scholars working on parallel topics in different disciplines and help raise awareness among theorists and empiricists alike of the open questions in other fields. This interdisciplinary collaboration is necessary to best design information disclosure policies embedded in complex legal institutions.