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Asymmetric information occurs when A. people engaging in a transaction are uncertain about future events. B. the information available to the people in a transaction is misleading or incomplete. C. everyone has the same information. D. one person in a transaction has more information than the other.

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D. one person in a transaction has more information than the other.

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Asymmetric information

It is also referred to as the information failure , it occurs when one of the party during an economic transaction has more material knowledge than the other party .

For example,

When the seller of the goods and service have more knowledge than the buyer , but the reverse can also be true , i.e. , the buyer having more knowledge .

In most of the economic transaction , the information asymmetries are observed .

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