Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, The, Business School Edition (5th Edition) (What's New in Economics)
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Chapter 8, Problem 3LO
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Why asymmetric information leads to adverse selection and moral hazard?

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Asymmetric information means that one of the parties in a financial transaction has more information about the product than the other party. Such information can lead to many problems to the second party. Here, the two parties are the buyer and the seller. The sellers usually have information about the product, asset, services, etc. that they are selling to the buyer which can prove to be a loss-making transaction for the buyer. On the other hand, buyer usually has more information about its assets than the seller covering it.

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