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...

This paper studies a scenario - one of the six problems with Austrian Business Cycle theory raised by Hummel (1979) - that the ABCT literature has paid little attention. Will a constant rate of credit expansion necessarily lead to a boom-bust cycle? We conclude that this scenario has two...