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A manager of a savings and loan association responds to reports of a likely increase in federal deposit insurance coverage. She directs loan officers to extend mortgage loans to less creditworthy borrowers. This situation poses

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By allowing the loans to the less creditworthy borrowers than this situation poses a moral hazard.

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Moral hazard can be defined as a situation where one party ( who is insured ) takes more risks, which it has protection against, and the other party would be bear the risk.

In the given situation, a manager who sees that there is increase in federal deposit insurance coverage , has directed the loan officers to provide loans to the less creditworthy borrowers , now this decision of his poses a moral hazard because manager knows that by providing loan to such people, there are high chances of default on these loans and here manager is acting in a much more riskier way than he should be.

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