Although the international economy seems to be well on the road to recovery, the question remains as to how much of this recovery is of a short-term cyclical nature and how much an expression of a renewed longer-term trend towards economic growth. Are we merely witnessing an increased...

Europeans have a tendency to call the financial crisis a US problem, or a crisis precipitated by the "Anglo-Saxon" model. The data suggest otherwise. Moreover, the corporate sector in Europe has a much lower capacity to finance investment from internal sources of funds, which implies that a...