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Financial Market Failure (Financial Economics)

Level:
A-Level, IB Diploma
Board:
AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas, IB, OCR, WJEC

Last updated 16 May 2019

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This study note looks at examples of market failure in the financial system. Market failure occurs when freely-functioning markets fail to deliver an efficient and/or socially optimum allocation of scarce resources.

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