How do governments solve market failure?

Answer 1

First of all the economy failure can be divided under two categories, namely macroeconomic and micro-economic failure. Macroeconomic failures are more grave than the latter and can only be corrected by the government by ensuring policies. For example a new tax policy or wages policy can ensure a new source of income to resolve the failures temporarily. If a micro-economic failure occurs, this can be very easily solved by providing goods, funds or services directly to the affected party. Another way of solving micro-economic failures, this time on the market, can be by creating parallel markets, which will then provide competitive ways of restoring the affected market.