This report assesses the continuing impact of the crisis on investment in tangible and intangible assets, and on the financing of these investments. It also examines what competitiveness means in an increasingly open and integrated global marketplace and the key principles that competitiveness...

Europe faces a twofold economic challenge. Post crisis, Europe still suffers from weak confidence, with would-be investors across Europe sitting on ample liquidity but afraid to invest, while deleveraging goes on in both the public and private sector. From a structural point of view Europe faces...