Maturity Mismatching and “Market Failure”

The present article is a continuation of the debate two sets of authors (Bagus and Howden vs. Barnett and Block) have been engaging in regarding one type of maturity mismatching: borrowing short and lending long (BSLL). All four authors had agreed that this practice can set up the Austrian Business...

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Auteurs: Block, Walter 1941- (Auteur) ; Barnett, William T. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: 2017
Dans: Journal of business ethics
Année: 2017, Volume: 142, Numéro: 2, Pages: 313-323
Sujets non-standardisés:B Fractional reserve banking
B Deposit
B ABC
B P16
B Borrow
B E59
B Banking ethics
B Maturity mismatching
B Lend
B E2
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Résumé:The present article is a continuation of the debate two sets of authors (Bagus and Howden vs. Barnett and Block) have been engaging in regarding one type of maturity mismatching: borrowing short and lending long (BSLL). All four authors had agreed that this practice can set up the Austrian Business Cycle; the present author denies that BSLL would be a legitimate commercial interaction in the free society; Bagus and Howden continue to maintain that it would be licit. Our main criticism of Bagus and Howden is a reductio ad absurdum: that this opens them up to the charge of embracing the doctrine of market failure; this is something highly problematic for the two of them, since all four contributors to this debate are well-known supporters of laissez faire capitalism.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-015-2706-1