Moral Hazard Is

question 9

Multiple Choice

Moral hazard is

• A) the tendency for people to enter into agreements in which they can use their private information to their own advantage and to the disadvantage of the less informed party.
• B) when one of the parties to an agreement has an incentive after the agreement is made to act in a manner that brings additional benefits to himself or herself at the expense of the other party.
• C) a situation in which only bad quality items are bought and sold.
• D) absent after a person who dislikes risk buys insurance against the risk.
• E) an action taken outside a market that conveys information that can be used by that market.

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Definitions:

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