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  • Market Failure
    • externalities
      • negative externalities arise when
        • private benefits exceed social benefits
          • social costs exceed private costs
      • demerit goods
        • goods with negative externalities
      • merit goods
        • positive externalities
      • production and consumption
      • market does not reflect social costs or benefits
    • public goods
      • these goods are not provided in a market economy
        • non-rivalrous
          • consumption of the good does not reduce anohter consumption
        • non-excludability
          • once provided no person cannot be excluded from benefitting
      • free rider problem
        • one who recieves the benefits
          • allows others to pay for it
      • quasi-public goods
        • roads
          • tolled
            • they are excludable
          • non-rival
            • one motorists does not reduce consumption of another
          • revenue does not outweigh cost
            • state provision
    • information gaps
      • information asymmetry
        • buyer or seller knows more information
        • George Akerlof
          • second hand cars
            • argued that market would collapse
              • consumers would not pay for above average car as they are prepared to pay average
              • consumer protection laws
                • road worthy
              • mileage, age
        • moral hazard
          • when an economic agent
            • bank
            • make a decision in their best interest
              • with potential risks
              • if problems result, the cost is partly borne by other agents
    • monopoly
      • one firm dominates the market share
      • sources of monopoly power
        • barriers to entry
          • legal
            • pharmacies
          • resources
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        • capital costs
          • car manufacturing
        • product differentiation
        • anti-competitive action
        • economies of scale
          • purchasing economies
            • in greater volumes the per unit cost is lower
          • marketing economies
            • greater volume of ads the lower the costs
          • financial economies
            • larger firms easier to raise investment
          • managerial economies
            • greater efficiency
              • specialist staff
          • technical economies
      • benefits
        • invention and innovation
          • can invest
            • creative destruction
        • natural monopolies
          • lower prices
    • factor immobility
      • land lobaour or capital
        • land
          • train once built
        • housing market
          • prices may be higher in low unemployment area
        • skills
          • coal miner
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