This paper asks whether trust in political institutions depends on individual's political leaning and the political ideology of the national government. We employ information on 140,000 individuals in 30 democratic OECD countries from the World Values Survey, 1981-2007, and estimate so-called...

In this paper we study the determinants of citizens' trust in the European Central Bank during the start-up phase from 1999-2004. Using a country panel based on the Eurobarometer survey, we find that higher inflation rates reduce trust. Thus people appear to evaluate the performance of the ECB...