Assessment of the Deadweight Loss Arising from the Information Asymmetry in The Banking Market
Abstract
Market failures lead to the deadweight (welfare) loss for the society. Assessment of the deadweight loss started with so called the Harberger Triangles, where Harberger offered a clear and persuasive derivation of the triangle method of analyzing the deadweight loss and applied the method to estimate deadweight losses due to income taxes in the United States. Harberger’s approach is based on the deviation of market equilibrium measured in terms of price and quantity. When analyzing the information asymmetry as one of the market failures authors have identified in the literature variables for “price” and “quantity”. Research hypothesis is that there is the deadweight loss arising from the information asymmetry in euro area. Research then presents the approach how to calculate the deadweight loss arising from the information asymmetry using the following variables: “price” – interest rates (loans). quantity” – exposure of loans on banks’ balance sheets. Research methods used: literature analysis, regression analysis, mathematical analysis tools (integrals).
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banking market; deadweight loss; information asymmetry; market regulation; model construction
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DOI: 10.7250/scee.2022.005
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