Since the financial crisis, central banks have stressed the role of trust and communication in connection with their … effectiveness of monetary policy. Assessing how much the general public knows about and trust in central banks and how these factors …' objectives. Knowledge of the ECB's and the Bundesbank's goals act as significant drivers of trust in these institutions, however …

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, the ECB has experienced an unprecedented deterioration in the level of trust …. This raises the question as to what factors determine trust in central banking. We use a unique cross-country dataset which … role in the trust-building process. Our results suggest that agents are boundedly rational in the trust-building process …

Using micro data from the 2015 Dutch CentERpanel, we examine whether trust in the European Central Bank (ECB … find that higher trust in the ECB lowers inflation expectations on average, and significantly reduces uncertainty about …

In the aftermath of the financial crisis trust, in the European Central Bank (ECB) has reached an historical low … total of 312 observations, this paper detects a structural break in citizens’ trust in the ECB. The paper confirms that … during the pre-crisis period, citizens’ trust in the ECB was driven by economic growth. In crisis time, however, trust in the …