TY - JOUR AU - Martínez Meseguer, César PY - 2026 SN - 2190-8249 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12766/862 AB - This article advances a law-and-economics critique of fractional-reserve banking, focusing on the legal taxonomy of bank contracts and the risk externalities of maturity transformation. We argue that the conflation of custody-like deposits with mutuum... LA - eng PB - Cambridge University Press TI - Deposit or loan? (A Law-and-Economics Critique of Fractional-Reserve Banking, Fiduciary Media, and Systemic Risk) DO - 10.1017/err.2026.10083 T2 - European Journal of Risk Regulation KW - Financial regulation KW - Fractional-reserve banking KW - Systemic risk ER -