# Prof. Thomaï Serdari on price increases in luxury retail

1 Faculty News December 5, 2014 ![Marketplace Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/marketplace_logo.jpg?itok=IIav3Udj)>

Excerpt from [Marketplace](http://www.marketplace.org/topics/wealth-poverty/marketplace-inflation-calculator/think-it-exclusivity-tax) -- "'This is not inflation increases, this is something that is really extraordinary, and replicates the index of living extremely well,' says [Thomai Serdari](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/Thomai%20Serdari), a professor of marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business. She adds, 'it is a manufactured, namely, an artificial market that keeps going up, as long as there are people who are wiling to spend.'"

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