Sunday, May 3, 2009

Causes of Market Failure

What exactly is Market Failure?
Market Failure occurs when the price mechanism fails to allocate resources efficiently and equitably. Usually the government has to take actions and provide a non market mechanism to allocate scarce resources.

INEFFICIENCY ARISES WHEN:
- existence of externalities
- missing markets
-market imperfections(information failure - merit + demerit goods and market power)

INEQUITY ARISES WHEN:
distribution of income and wealth in the market economy is unequal and unfair

By Puja

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