Knowledge Transfer, Trust and Ideologies in Public Financial Reporting

This chapter aims to show the relationship between discursive practices, ideology and trust in central banks’ Annual Reports and takes into account how the institutional identity/-ies based on trust, or deteriorated into distrust, can be realised by the development of similar or dissimilar financial discourses. Specifically, the approach compares qualitatively and quantitatively the degree of likeness and unlikeness between the ECB and the nation states, as well as tracks specific rhetorical choices from a national and supranational discursive perspective.