Economics & Finance
Expectation-Reality Signal Mismatch
When market participants allocate resources based on historical patterns or official forecasts, but actual demand signals (prices, bookings, behavior) diverge from expectations, it reveals that decision-makers have underestimated the impact of 'institutional variables' (visa policies, political sentiment). This is a cross-domain identification problem: internal system signals (supply-side optimism) become decoupled from external system signals (demand-side policy constraints and psychological barriers).
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