Investigation of trust in European Central Bank in the European Union

Abstract

The article investigates a question of trust to ECB in the time period between 2012 and 2014 that was characterized by a global challenge in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. The main topic of this article is consideration of trust in a public institution and its connection with economic indicators. The question of dependency between annual change in unemployment and the level of trust in ECB in 15 European countries as well as dependency between annual change in GDP and the trust in ECB in the chosen countries is discussed. The investigation is based on the data from Eurobarometer survey.