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What does moral hazard mean?

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Noun
  1. (economics) The prospect that a party insulated from risk may behave differently from the way it would behave if it were fully exposed to the risk.
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There are, however, important aspects to address such as moral hazard and potential implicit public support in very turbulent times.
It also minimizes moral hazard, by centralizing negotiations over fee structures, and eliminating the collective action problem in enforcement.
This is, of course, deeply morally unsatisfying, and it raises real questions about moral hazard.
The pattern of bailouts since 1995 has distorted the operation of financial markets by creating moral hazard.
These theories highlight the problems of moral hazard in the principal-agent relation.
We are using IMF as shorthand for the entire grouping of moral hazard intensifiers we listed at the outset!

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