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Market Failures

Market Failures. Frederick University 2014. Questions What and how much How For Whom. Problems Efficiency in allocation Efficiency in motivation Efficiency in distribution. Main Economic problems. Market Functions. Achieve: Efficiency in allocation Efficiency in motivation

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Market Failures

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  1. Market Failures Frederick University 2014

  2. Questions What and how much How For Whom Problems Efficiency in allocation Efficiency in motivation Efficiency in distribution Main Economic problems

  3. Market Functions Achieve: • Efficiency in allocation • Efficiency in motivation • Efficiency in distribution

  4. Market failures Market failures are all cases when • markets fail to perform their functions - functional market failures, or • markets perform their functions, but the outcomes do not fit the system of social values - social market failures

  5. Public goods I won’t use it and I am not gonna pay for it! Public Goods – goods, which are nonrival and nonexcludable in consumption

  6. Externalities What about our rivers? A chemical company would like to build a plant here We’ll make them any color you want

  7. Externalities Externalities – cases where social costs and benefits differ from private costs and benefits Social cost D P S – private cost ps p1 qs Q q1

  8. Merit goods P S P3 Merit goods – goods, whose utility consumers tend to underestimate subsidy D P1 p2 q2 Q q1

  9. Demerit goods Demerit goods – goods whose utility consumers tend to overestimate P D p2 S tax p1 q2 Q q1

  10. Asymmetric Information Racing? Let me just get my car insurance!!!

  11. Incomplete Markets • Bounded rationality • Moral hazard and adverse selection

  12. Monopoly vs. Pure Monopoly • Monopoly – an ability to produce a good or a service that others are not able or allowed to. • Pure monopoly – a market structure, determined by only one producer of a good with no close substitutes

  13. Natural Monopoly • Natural monopoly – a monopoly position, determined by factors, which cannot be replicated • Types of natural monopoly: • Monopoly, created by a possession of resources, inaccessible to competitors • Monopoly, justified by economies of scale • Local monopoly

  14. AC Economies of Scale AC P Q

  15. Institutional Monopoly • Institutional monopoly – a monopoly, deliberately created by economic decision makers • Types of institutional monopoly: • Monopoly, created by a collusion, or a merger • Monopoly, created by institutional barriers to entry to the industry • Government monopoly

  16. Instability Unstable macroeconomic equilibrium, creating cyclical fluctuations in employment and price level

  17. The Role of Government Musgrave’s Three Branches • stabilization • allocation • distribution

  18. The government failure Of course you may register a complaint about all the government paperwork, sir, ... But it has to be in writing.

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