The phrase "balloon effect" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the phenomenon where an action or change in one area has a domino effect, causing a larger or unexpected reaction or consequence. Example: The government's tax cut had a balloon effect, leading to an increase in consumer spending and a boost in the economy.
There's the balloon effect".
The tendency of a crackdown in one area to stimulate production in another is now known as the "balloon effect".
But, like the war on drugs, there are early signs that the war on poaching is plagued by the so-called "balloon effect".
The balloon effect plays out here too – if planting and transporting are disrupted in one part of Latin America the problem goes away – to a neighbouring country.
The balloon effect — and its consequences — is coming full circle in the jungle valleys of central Peru, the cocaine industry's storied cradle.
Scholars of the Andean drug war call this the balloon effect, bringing to mind a balloon that swells in one spot when another is squeezed.
For decades, balloon effects have been the object of study in other disciplines, most notably international drug control and, more recently, carbon leakage.
Here, it is suggested that marine resource exploitation has reached such a saturated state that few new frontiers exist, and that the paradigm of serial depletion will increasingly be replaced by balloon effects squeezing both licit and illicit fishing activities into areas of least statehood.
"The socially corrosive impacts of the illicit market would be dramatically reduced and the balloon effects of localized or drug-specific enforcement ended," he says.
Sometimes the leaflet appears distorted with a "ballooning" effect at its extremity and loss of its homogenous curvature (Fig. 2).
c AP plain radiograph of the left humerus showing a large expansile cystic lesion causing total destruction of the bone with ballooning effect.
