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Fear of risk and lack of trust block European investment – blog

Financial literacy is key to savings and investment union, say ECB economists

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Perceived risk and low trust in financial products are the main reasons why European households avoid stocks and other market-based instruments, say economists from the European Central Bank. However, they add that greater financial literacy could help channel households’ savings into capital markets.

In a blog post on September 15, Andrei Dumitrescu, Zakaria Gati, Justus Meyer, Laura Parisi and Alessandro Spolaore map out findings from the bank’s consumer expectations survey to show that, among

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