Assessing the Returns on Investment in Data Openness and Transparency (English)

This paper investigates the potential benefits for a country from investing in data transparency. The paper shows that increased data transparency can bring substantive returns in lower costs of external borrowing. This result is obtained by estimating the impact of public data transparency on sovereign spreads conditional on the country's level of institutional quality and public and external debt. While improving data transparency alone reduces...

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Kubota,Megumi;

Zeufack,Albert G.;
Document Date
2020/01/31
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS9139
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Africa,
Region
Africa,
Disclosure Date
2020/01/31
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Assessing the Returns on Investment in Data Openness and Transparency
Keywords
data transparency

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Kubota,Megumi; Zeufack,Albert G..

Assessing the Returns on Investment in Data Openness and Transparency (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9136 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/398401580479439299

Assessing the Returns on Investment in Data Openness and Transparency (English)

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