This is even truer today, in the age of Internet price transparency and activist consumers.
Historically, this kind of price transparency for bonds has been available only to institutional investors.
This lack of price transparency costs Americans billions of dollars a year in unnecessary spending.
More trade and greater price transparency should mean more competition and thus higher productivity growth.
Entergy-Koch speculates, too, but generally inside of a two-year period when liquidity and price transparency are greatest.
He explained that the report seeks to "tackle practices of certain airlines" on price transparency and on-board baggage.
Many dread the effect on their margins of greater price transparency and the web equivalent of shopping around.
This would, by improving price transparency, indeed make the single market work better.
The next stage in this evolution toward price transparency would be a court case or federal regulation exterminating the no-surcharge rules.
However, for the vast majority of art buyers and prospective art buyers, surely more price transparency would be a good thing.
Advocates of the currency say that its launch should lead to greater price transparency, with consumer power across Europe eventually forcing prices lower.
Price transparency will also allow micropower plants to buy and sell power on the grid as demand dictates, so improving the grid's reliability.
And push for more quality and price transparency among providers so that consumers and employers can use narrower, cheaper networks of doctors and hospitals.
From 2013, they will have to charge an up-front fee for advice instead, as part of moves towards greater price transparency in banking services.
Price transparency in the art market was still years away, so buyers in New York remained ignorant of prices fetched recently in London or Paris.
Mr de Silguy, in common with other (non-economist) euro-enthusiasts, airily dismisses such worries, instead playing up the benefits of price transparency and lower transaction costs.
As Tony Miller, Definity's boss, points out, price transparency not only helps consumers manage their resources, but also promotes competition among doctors participating in the network.
The euro should spur price convergence not so much because consumers shop across borders, but because greater price transparency encourages wholesalers to take advantage of price discrepancies.
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He founded Benchmark Solutions in 2009 to provide a similar level of price transparency in the fixed income and derivatives markets as is available in the equities markets.
You know, the administration is making a point that releasing this data is part of a much larger effort to bring more price transparency to the health care marketplace.
These direct providers are able to combat many concerns through price transparency, easy access and lower costs as they establish what is basically a menu of cash only services.
Though many retailers across the region, perhaps surprisingly, spy benefits in price transparency, the cross-border shopping boom, also maybe surprisingly, has not set off a public chorus for euro membership.
Barack Obama's health reform requires hospitals to list standard prices each year, and more than 30 states have either proposed or passed laws to promote price transparency, according to the GAO.
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But thanks to competition from Castlight Health, Change Healthcare and others, they are getting better, says Suzanne Delbanco, executive director of Catalyst for Payment Reform, which represents large employers pushing for price transparency.
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Most urgent of all is greater price transparency.
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As public scrutiny intensifies over price transparency in health care, a new report shows 72 percent of the nation, or 36 states, failing to improve information to consumers on what medical treatments and procedures actually cost.
Bringing complicated derivative exchanges out of the shadows would enhance market-price transparency, and increased collateral requirements would reduce the risk of investors and banks being wiped out by mistaken trades that allegedly threaten the financial system.
Financial Regulations must include price discovery and transparency for all types of Derivative Contracts.
Retail and commerce must adjust to mobile and connected customers with access to complete price and quality transparency.
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Customers urgently need increased price and quality transparency to buy smart and offset the growing market power of providers.
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