Market imperfections

Another imponant consideration is that getting prices right is not the end of the stoiyi. Many market imperfections and transaction costs affecting energy... 

See also Economic Externalities Market Imperfections Subsidies and Energy Costs. 

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA Market Imperfections... 

The low rate of 1 % annual energy-efficiency improvement over the last 35 years raises more questions. What are the major obstacles and market imperfections that have to be addressed by policy measures in order to speed up the realisation of energy and material efficiency potentials Since obstacles and market imperfections have been the object of study for a long time (IPCC, 2001), are there any additional concepts of motivation or opportunities which have not yet been applied but which are likely to speed up activities and markets for realising energy efficiency options ... 

Obstacles and market imperfections - but also motivations and opportunities... 

The externality-only public subsidy would address this market imperfection. However, since private insurers and ultimately premium payers would be at financial risk for the cost of vaccinations not covered by the subsidy, there may be substantial political opposition to an externality-only subsidy. Ironically, because vaccines create widely diffused benefits that are experienced only by the lack of disease, political support is likely to be limited because of the lack of a political constituency, especially compared to concentrated, well-organized groups wary of changes. 

Other reasons, such as the incidence of non-optimal behaviour among power producers, market imperfections, time lags or other constraints, including the incidence of risks, uncertainties, lack of information, and the immaturity or lack of transparency of the carbon market. 

With regard to the importance of corrosion to the community at large, a significant market imperfection is that the community s conception of corrosion is different from the effects of corrosion in reality. In general, the community at large perceives corrosion as unimportant. 

Another significant market imperfection is the lack of technology transfer that leads to the lack of awareness about corrosion and the available methods to combat corrosion. There are many instances where unnecessary costs are incurred because of incorrect specification of materials or where inadequate corrosion protection measures have been applied to proprietary equipment. The information that is required to avoid the corrosion problem was available and could have been used to control the corrosion problem. 

In a perfect market, the shadow price for any resource would be its market price in the real world, market imperfections - caused, for example, by tariffs, quotas, and monopolies - distort prices so that true economic values are not represented by market prices. The estimation of border prices and shadow prices attempts to remove these distortions. A central issue in economic pricing is tradability of goods and services. The major categories related to tradability are as follows ... 

Various disciplinary perspectives have their own distinct perspectives on these questions. For example, lawyers are interested in how laws may be framed to be more effective political scientists are interested in ose interests are being represented in the political processes influencing law economists are interested in the impact of the law on the market imperfections which provided the rationale for government intervention. This study is primarily sociological. 

Market power and bargaining power are analysed as cases of market imperfection, i.e. cases in which the market (intended as the basic institution of capitalist economies) fails to perform its function of coordination. It has been the Hterature on market failure together with the modern theory of firm that have opened the way to the power issue in economics. There are at least two important strands of Hterature that directly address the issue the contested exchange approach within the neo-behavioural economics the literature on the internal poHtics of firms, within the managerial theories of the firm. 

When valuing negative consequences of market imperfections, distortions stemming from forms of power other than market power should be seriously taken into account. 

The business environment, in which the healthcare network operates, can be described in terms of the knowledge-intensiveness that makes healthcare supply driven, payer s inability to control outcomes, risky investment in new drugs and treatments, defensive practice of medicine, paucity of investment in preventive healthcare, industry-fragmentation, and market imperfections. 

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