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  2. Crowding out (economics) - Wikipedia

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    In economics, crowding out is a phenomenon that occurs when increased government involvement in a sector of the market economy substantially affects the remainder of the market, either on the supply or demand side of the market. One type frequently discussed is when expansionary fiscal policy reduces investment spending by the private sector.

  3. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment - Wikipedia

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    Kahneman, Sibony and Sunstein propose the following typology/components of noise: level noise (arises due to different holistic views on the decision task among judges), stable pattern noise (arises due to permanent or semi-permanent differences between judges on how they react to certain circumstances in what is being judged), and occasion ...

  4. Marginal cost - Wikipedia

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    In economics, the marginal cost is the change in the total cost that arises when the quantity produced is increased, i.e. the cost of producing additional quantity. [1] In some contexts, it refers to an increment of one unit of output, and in others it refers to the rate of change of total cost as output is increased by an infinitesimal amount.

  5. Baumol effect - Wikipedia

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    Note the modest increase in average wages in the middle. In economics, the Baumol effect, also known as Baumol's cost disease, first described by William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen in the 1960s, is the tendency for wages in jobs that have experienced little or no increase in labor productivity to rise in response to rising wages in other ...

  6. Inflation - Wikipedia

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    Due to a high rise of inflation, [Ströer Media 1] it has been seen to affect unemployment levels around the world. From 2005 to 2019, it was found that the wellbeing costs of unemployment was 5 times higher than inflation. The trust between the central banks and individuals has become more limited.

  7. Market risk - Wikipedia

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    Market risk is the risk of losses in positions arising from movements in market variables like prices and volatility. [1] There is no unique classification as each classification may refer to different aspects of market risk. Nevertheless, the most commonly used types of market risk are:

  8. Crime of opportunity - Wikipedia

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    Crime of opportunity. A crime of opportunity is a crime that is committed without planning when the perpetrator sees that they have the chance to commit the act at that moment and seizes it. Such acts have little or no premeditation .

  9. Barriers to entry - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In theories of competition in economics, a barrier to entry, or an economic barrier to entry, is a fixed cost that must be incurred by a new entrant, regardless of production or sales activities, into a market that incumbents do not have or have not had to incur. [1] Because barriers to entry protect incumbent firms and restrict ...