朗菲尔德和帕加诺指出，在危机爆发以来的八年中，欧盟GDP只增长了2 % ， 而美国超过9 % ， 这一差异的原因是大西洋两岸金融结构的区别。
Langfield and Pagano point out that in the eight years since the crisis, the European Union’s GDP has grown by only 2%, compared to more than 9% in the US, and attribute this differential to transatlantic differences in financial structure.