Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/156661 
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Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
WIFO Working Papers No. 513
Publisher: 
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Vienna
Abstract: 
In 2013, the European Union and United States initiated a new political dialogue regarding a further deepening of bilateral trade and investment relations, the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership). In some member states, anti-TTIP street protests and political activists received substantial support. The paper is concerned with the drivers of public support or disapproval of TTIP. In particular, we focus on the role of (dis-) trust in companies and in political institutions for attitude formation concerning economic regulation. We use data from a Eurobarometer Survey conducted in November 2014 to assess the determinants of individual approval or disapproval of TTIP by European citizens. By means of a mixed-level logit regression it can be shown that disapproval is highly correlated with a lack of trust in European institutions and in large companies. Our results moreover indicate that anti-TTIP political activism has a strong impact on TTIP-related preferences.
Subjects: 
trust
institutions
European Union
free trade
TTIP
JEL: 
D70
D78
H10
L50
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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