To analyze the feasibility of applying the Coase Theorem, this article uses two traditional arguments, economic calculation and non-neutral effects, found in the Austrian literature. This article argues that the efficiency calculation a judge undertakes is problematic and that his decision...

Among the cited historical cases of free banking is the National Law of Guaranteed Banks in Argentina (1887-1890), a system which proved to be unstable. This historical case presents relevant risks that are attributed to free banking, the absence of proper regulation and a formal lender of last...

In Time Deposits, Dimension, and Fraud (2009), William Barnett and Walter Block argue that by borrowing short and lending long there is an over issuance of property rights. Their article, however, does not fully extend the consequences of their contribution. Once this is done, it becomes clearer...

This article studies the main aspects of free banking to put forward the argument that such a system is endogenously stable and that financial crisis is an exogenous phenomenon. In support of this conclusion, it analyzes the cases of bank runs, concerted expansion and how free banking would...

Concerted expansion is a common concern in free banking. This situation is sometimes expressed as a prisoner's dilemma game, as Huerta de Soto (1998 [2006], pp. 664-671) does to show that banks have incentives to collude and expand fiduciary media. This approach, however, does not accurately...

The interpretation that Mises preferred banking with a 100% reserve requirement finds strong support in Huerta de Soto's Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles. This article seeks to review his arguments concluding that it is in fact more feasible to interpret that Mises preferred free banking...