We examine public trust in the European Central Bank (ECB) and its determinants using data from the Bundesbank … psychology, we offer a fresh perspective on the factors influencing central bank trust that is more holistic than the … their trust in the ECB, tend to express higher trust in the ECB. Conversely, those who place greater importance on values …

political participation. We also show that strong family ties appear to be a substitute for generalized trust, rather than a … complement to it. These three constructs-civic engagement, political participation, and trust- are part of what is known as …

Several papers study the effect of trust by using the answer to the World Values Survey (WVS) question "Generally … the level of trust. Glaeser et al. (2000) question the validity of this measure by showing that it is not correlated with … senders' behavior in the standard trust game, but only with his trustworthiness. By using a large sample of German households …

We study the impact of two dimensions of trust, namely trust in business elites and trust in government, on policy … preferences. Using a randomized online survey, we find that our two treatments are effective in changing trust in Major Companies … and in Courts/Government. In contrast to previous work, we find that more trust causes a decline in desired taxes. This is …

transmission tends to be biased toward excessively conservative priors. As a result, societies can be trapped in a low-trust … equilibrium. In this context, a temporary shock to the return to trusting can have a permanent effect on the level of trust. We …