In this article we analyse the feasibility of a bail-in for Spain. After a detailed analysis of the origins of the Spanish banking crisis and the government’s response in the form of a bail-out by taxpayers in 2012, we investigate whether a bail-in would have been feasible instead. The bail-in...

Public finance has both normative and positive elements, and moving between theory and practice requires attention to help us understand both what policies government should adopt and whether it is likely to do so. We should not be surprised when bad policies are adopted in spite of better...