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Did greedflation fuel post-pandemic price rises?

Are digital regulations coming into focus?

Greedflation – companies exploiting a high inflation environment to raise prices relatively more than costs – has grabbed attention and headlines in economics commentary, but the evidence to prove definitively whether it took place on a wide scale in the post-COVID-19 period is not conclusive.
 

October 2024

In this episode of Street Signals, we chat with our academic partner Alberto Cavallo, professor at Harvard Business School and co-founder of PriceStats, about a new working paper in which he and his co-authors take a deep dive into cost and pricing dynamics during the pandemic years.

They employ unique data sets and analysis to determine whether, where and when excessive mark-ups on goods prices took place along the supply chains during the high inflation years of 2021-2023.
 

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