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Banking on trust: Institutional trust and the geography of financial exclusion in Central and Eastern Europe

Rodríguez-Pose, A. and Sandu, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8981-5182 2025. Banking on trust: Institutional trust and the geography of financial exclusion in Central and Eastern Europe. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 10.1177/0308518X251350433

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Abstract

In this paper we investigate what determines access to banking in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The research uses different waves of the OeNB Euro Survey – covering over 91,000 individuals during the period 2012–2020 – and pooled and multilevel logit models to analyse how the interplay of trust in institutions, socio-economic attributes and geographic contexts shapes access to bank accounts, savings deposits and loans across 10 CEE countries. The findings reveal significant disparities in banking inclusion across products: while institutional trust enhances access to current accounts and savings deposits, its impact on loans is weaker. Socio-economic factors and geographical contexts, particularly at the local NUTS3 level, also matter enormously for financial inclusion. National and local economic conditions are key in shaping variations in financial inclusion/exclusion across CEE.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Published Online
Status: In Press
Schools: Schools > Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISSN: 1472-3409
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 4 July 2025
Date of Acceptance: 30 May 2025
Last Modified: 20 Aug 2025 09:14
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/179548

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