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A moral hazard

A moral hazard is a situation where a party protected from risk (owing to having superior information) behaves differently than if they were fully exposed to the risk.

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The syllabus topics that use this term.

  • 2.10Adverse Selection
  • 2.10Moral Hazard

Taught in Market Failure: Asymmetric Information

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