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How Price-Gouging Regulation Undermined COVID-19 Mitigation: Evidence of Unintended Consequences
1 Introduction The sudden emergence and rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020 incited a variety of public policy responses. Many states in the United States implemented mitigation policies such as “stay-at-home orders” to slow the spread.1For instance, Governor Northam of Virginia…