3 Lessons From Hyperinflationary Periods: References

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Authors:
(1) Mark Bergen, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota;
(2) Thomas Bergen, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota;
(3) Daniel Levy, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics, Emory University, and ISET at Tbilisi State University, 0108 Tbilisi, Georgia;
(4) Rose Semenov, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.
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Abstract
Reduce the company’s costs of changing prices (“menu cost”)
Reduce customers’ “stress of uncertainty”
Reduce societal fears of “shrinkflation, greedflation, and doubtflation"
References
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This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license.
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