spillover effect
Unintended secondary impact
A spillover effect is an unintended consequence that spreads beyond its original context.
Economic spillovers occur when activity in one sector affects another: The tech boom had spillover effects on local housing prices.
The term applies broadly—a conflict's spillover effects might destabilize neighboring countries, or a parent's stress might have spillover effects on children.
- externalityUncompensated effect on others
- unintended consequencesUnanticipated outcomes of actions
- marginalizationRelegation to powerless periphery
- social inequalityUneven distribution of opportunity
- leakageUnintended fluid escape
feedback loop · herd mentality · cross-pollination · confounding · second-hand smoke · diffusion · emotional contagion · brain drain · capital flow · capital flight · economic ripple · trade imbalance · urban sprawl · housing bubble · peer influence · apartheid · chain reaction · fiscal policy
- consequencesconsequence, consequences, result, results, outcome
- effectsconsequence, result, outcome, aftereffect, vignette
- EU Integrationeuro, EU membership, European Central Bank, free movement, monetary union
- financial crisesfinancial collapse, bank run, economic collapse, bank failure, bank failures
spillover effectcontainment
Preventing hostile expansion
isolation · insulation · quarantine · compartmentalization · ring-fencing
spillover effectdecoupling
Removal of interdependence
insulation · independence · autonomy · separation · disconnection
spill, spillover, spills, spilled, spilling, spillage, over, effect, effects