marknadsmissade

Marknadsmissade is a Swedish term that is not standardized in economic literature. In common usage, it can refer to two related ideas: (1) missed market opportunities by a firm or industry, meaning an inability to capture potential demand or value in a market; or (2) a broader sense of market failure, where markets fail to allocate resources efficiently on a systemic level. When used in academic or policy contexts, marknadsmissade is more often understood in the second sense as an illustration of suboptimal outcomes in competitive markets.

In economics, market failure occurs when free markets do not produce an optimal allocation of resources, leading to welfare losses. Typical causes include externalities (where the costs or benefits of a transaction affect third parties), public goods (non-excludable and non-rivalrous goods that markets underprovide), information asymmetries (imperfect information that distorts decision-making), and market power (monopolies or oligopolies that restrict output or raise prices). Other factors include incomplete markets, high transaction costs, and principal–agent problems.

Remedies to address marknadsmissade, in its market-failure sense, commonly involve government intervention or policy measures. Examples include taxes or subsidies to align private incentives with social costs and benefits, regulation to curb negative externalities, provision of public goods, enforcement of property rights, and information disclosure to reduce asymmetries. Antitrust actions and market design improvements can also enhance competitive outcomes.

See also: market failure, externality, public good, information asymmetry, monopoly, regulatory policy.