Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Market failure

What is market failure?
public and merit goods(missing markets)
immobility of factors of production
lack of competition
poverty and inequality in an economy
information failure
externalities in production&consumpyion

market can fail for lots of reason and the main causes of market failure are summarized below:
1 negative externalities
2 positive externalities
3 imperfect information
4 pure public goods and quasi-public goods
5 market dominance by monopolies
6 factor immopolies
7 equity(fairness)issues

market failure results in
-productive inefficiency
-allocative inefficiency

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