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Regulating Systemic Risk through Transparency: Tradeoffs in Making Data Public

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  • Augustin Landier
  • David Thesmar

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Public or partial disclosure of financial data is a key element in the design of a new regulatory environment. We study the costs and benefits of higher public access to financial data and analyze qualitatively how frequency, disclosure lag and granularity of such open data can be chosen to maximize welfare, depending on the relative magnitude of economic frictions. We lay out a simple framework to choose optimal transparency of financial data.

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  • Augustin Landier & David Thesmar, 2011. "Regulating Systemic Risk through Transparency: Tradeoffs in Making Data Public," NBER Working Papers 17664, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    JEL classification:

    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods

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