Cruijsen, Carin van der; Jansen, David-Jan; Haan, Jakob de - 2010
Does the general public know what central banks do? Is this kind of knowledge relevant? Using a survey of Dutch … households, we investigate these questions for the case of the European Central Bank (ECB). Our findings suggest that knowledge … on the ECB’s objectives is far from perfect. Both a weak desire to be informed and unawareness of insufficient knowledge …