Governments on both sides of the Atlantic have reacted with a raft of new regulations to the US subprime mortgage crisis. The article argues that while these new rules actually touch many of the incentive and information problems which were instrumental in creating the crisis, they only address...

Seit dem Ende des Dot-Com-Booms 2001 schwächeln die gesamtwirtschaftlichen Investitionen in Deutschland. Immer wieder wurde dies mit der vermeintlich schwachen Profitabilität von Unternehmensinvestitionen begründet, die durch angebotsorientierte Reformen verbessert werden müsse. Eine...

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...