market failure

market failure
The inability of arm's length markets to deliverer goods or services. A multinational corporation's market internalization advantages may take advantage of market failure. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary

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market failure UK US noun [S or U] ECONOMICS
a situation in which a market does not operate as it should, for example where the supply of a product is not related to the level of demand for it: »

Protecting car production in the face of market failure has, far from helping them, locked the people of the area into an economy which cannot sustain itself.


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