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by gozur88 3566 days ago
I don't think so. Getting companies to lend to students was the whole point of the program. Normally you'd use the term to describe unwanted side effects.
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The term describes the situation in which the cost of one party's risks are born by another party. Whether it's "unwanted" doesn't actually seem that relevant. If foolish incentives create a moral hazard, the moral hazard still exists regardless of the intent behind the incentives.