“…However, a fast-growing literature has supported that private sector bank deposits are also affected by agents' economic sentiment, with some researchers support that sentiment exerts a higher impact on bank deposits than macro fundamentals. Our work is part of a growing strand of the literature that explores how the economic sentiment affects various facets of the economic activity (see among others, (Anastasiou, Ballis, & Drakos, 2021a, 2021cAnastasiou, Bragoudakis, & Giannoulakis, 2021b;Schumaker, Zhang, Huang, & Chen, 2012;Smales, 2014)) and especially to the literature investigating the impact of sentiment on bank deposits Anastasiou & Katsafados, 2020;Fecht, Thum, & Weber, 2019).…”