thin market
noun
ukusFINANCE,STOCK MARKET
→narrow market
Examplesofthin market
thin market
He hypothesises that this phenomenon is due to athinmarketexternality created by the fact that workers lose skills when unemployed.
From theCambridge English Corpus
But the fact is that, despite recent bidding in athinmarket, the two-tier system has worked smoothly since it was introduced a year ago.
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Towards the end of the month there was a slight further fall in athinmarket.
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I believe therefore that fears expressed that there will be under-valuations in an artificallythinmarketare unjustified.
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It is athinmarket, perhaps, when they come to hand.
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Thin markets with few participants can result from fluctuations in water supply.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, thin markets lead to important additional risks of opportunism.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Typical market imperfections include missing markets, seasonal markets, rationing, thin markets, and interlinked markets.
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Thin markets are both a cause and a consequence of the fact that while volumes traded are low, the costs and risks of trading are high.
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Economic coordination risks, and associated risks of opportunism, are particularly problematic in poor rural areas, with their very low levels of economic activity, poor transport and thin markets.
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