Edexcel A Level · 9EC0 · Theme 4: A global perspective
4.4.2 Market failure in the financial sector
Everything you need for questions on market failure in the financial sector, in the words examiners reward. An interactive seven-step lesson goes with it.
What's on this sheet
- Five sources of market failure
- Anatomy of a bubble
- Why banks are fragile
- Classic question: should governments rescue failing banks?
- Side 2: practice tasks, where the marks go, and exam-style questions
- Separate answer key
The lesson in seven steps
- Speculation, credit and crashes
- What went wrong?
- Winners and losers
- Fragility trainer
- Rescue or let fail?
- Build the chain
- Exam practice
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