Economics
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Financial Market Failure (Financial Economics)
- Level:
- A Level, IB
- Board:
- AQA, Edexcel, OCR, IB, Eduqas, WJEC
Last updated 16 May 2019
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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