The impact of structural reforms on external imbalances has attracted considerable attention in view of the existing constellation of relative growth rates and current account balances among OECD economies. Not least among policy makers, what should and can be done to help solve the problem has...

The health of a firm’s balance sheet potentially plays a role in its decisions to invest and through that channel, aggregate activity can be affected. Several authors have established a theoretical link based on the notion that the value of equity can be collateralised for business loans used...

Between 2002 and early 2005 risk premia for a number of asset classes across broad geographical areas not only fell substantially but also tended to move more closely together than they had done historically. This raises the question to what extent this apparent reduced investor discrimination...