Bursian, Dirk; Faia, Ester - 2013 - This draft: July 2013
Trust in policy makers fluctuates significantly over the cycle and a¤ects the transmission mechanism. Despite this it … is absent from the literature. We build a monetary model embedding trust cycles; the latter emerge as an equilibrium … phenomenon of a game-theoretic interaction between atomistic agents and the monetary authority. Trust affects agents …