adverse selection
Americannoun
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“The credit providers are going to try to offset that adverse selection, and the only way they can do that is raise prices.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Zillow may simply have realized before anyone else that adverse selection is intractable.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2021
This phenomenon, also known as adverse selection, could collapse the market.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2020
In an odd twist, the administration notes in the proposed rule that the ACA has provisions that could protect the marketplace from that type of adverse selection, which can drive up prices.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2018
The idea that MoviePass would be particularly attractive to the consumers who bled the most money from the company has a name: adverse selection.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2018
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