Market failure: Possible causes of market failure may be externalities (external effects) i.e. influence of an uninvolved party on a situation; problems related to social goods or public goods (e.g. overfishing); natural monopolies (e.g. access to the sea); information asymmetry (between seller and buyer, between entrepreneurs and employees)._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. |