- IW Trust Index ·
- Press Release No. 42 ·
- 27 July 2015
Lack of trust in crisis countries
Crises like the ones in global finance markets and in the European monetary union tend to have one thing in common: they are caused, or at least aggravated, by a lack of trust. This is also evident when looking at the current Greek crisis, as indicated by the new trust index developed by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW).