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HOSTILE ACQUISITION: In the world of mergers, the acquisition of one company by another against the wishes of the company being acquired. Also termed a hostile takeover, this is accomplished by purchasing controlling interest in the stock of the acquired company, usually by offering to pay a price exceeding the current market price. A hostile takeover might be motivated to eliminate competition, to sell off the assets of the company for more that the takeover payment, or to temporarily inflate the price of the stock.

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Lesson 21: Factor Demand | Unit 5: Taking Stock Page: 23 of 24

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  • A few topics you can look forward to in other lessons.

    • Factor Supply: Factor demand is only one side of the factor market. The other side, as you might suspect, is factor supply.

    • Factor Market Equilibrium: The balance of factor demand and factor supply in the factor market, like any market, generates equilibrium.

    • Labor Markets: Labor represents the most widely used factor service throughout the economy.


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ADVERSE SELECTION

An inefficient, bad, or adverse outcome of a market exchange that results because buyers and/or sellers make decisions based on asymmetric information. This commonly results in a market that exchanges a lesser quality good, what is termed the market for lemons. Two related problems resulting from asymmetric information are moral hazard and the principal-agent problem. Two methods of lessoning the problem of adverse selection are signalling and screening.

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