Abstract:From a global point of view, people often make some criticism that the regulation is easy to breed corruption and give the economy a lot of inefficiency. However, people around the world seem reluctant to give up regulation in reality. This paper explains the reasons that people do not want to give up regulation from the point of trust influencing the preferences of regulation. Individual requirements of economic control could be to avoid or deal with the fraud generated by market failure. More trust to others can reduce the demand of regulation, but more distrust to others will increase people’s preferences toward regulation. Using the World Valu Surveys data, empirical studies support the conclusion.