Question

Lucy is trying to sell her CyberPowerPC Gamer Xtreme MSAAG1000 Gaming PC; however, none of the potential buyers is willing to pay the price Lucy desires. Lucy's friend Zeynep, an economist, thinks this might be due to a lack of information on the part of buyers. Zeynep uses the concept of __________ to explain to Lucy why she cannot sell her computer at the price she is asking

Answer 1

Answer: Adverse selection

Explanation:

From the above, we can deduce that Zeynep uses the concept of adverse selection to explain to Lucy why she cannot sell her computer at the price she is asking.

Adverse selection simply refers to a situation whereby there is information failure or asymmetric information. In this situation, the seller have more information than the information that the buyers about the product and this led to the situation whereby none of the potential buyers was willing to buy the product.