Price Gauging or Market Forces? Fairness Perceptions of Price Hikes during the Pandemic
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Keywords
Dual Entitlement; Fairness Perceptions; Consumer Antagonism; COVID-19; Pandemic; Price Level; Price Adjustment; Price Increase; Price Rigidity; Sticky Prices;All these keywords.
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- E3 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles
- C9 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments
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