Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Economics Ch.17
Information, Taxes, and Distribution of Income
5
Economics
Undergraduate 1
12/06/2009

Additional Economics Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Asymmetric information
Definition
A situation in which one party to an economic transaction has less information than the other party.
Term
Adverse selection
Definition
The situation in which one party to a transaction takes advantage of knowing more than the other party to the transaction.
Term
Moral hazard
Definition
The actions people take after they have entered into a transaction that make the other party to the transaction worse off.
Term
Principal-agent problem
Definition
A problem caused by agents pursuing their own interests rather than the interests of the principals who hired them.
Term
Winner's curse
Definition
The idea that the winner in certain auctions may have overestimated the value of the good thus ending up worse off than the losers.
Supporting users have an ad free experience!