The impact of the food embargo on consumer preferences and cross-border practices in the Kaliningrad region
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The study consisted of several blocks. The first was a comparative retrospective analysis of consumer price indices for food products in the Kaliningrad region and in the neighbouring countries of Poland and Lithuania<1> before the imposition of sanctions and counter-sanctions (2012—2013) and between 2014 and 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began, with its impact overlapping the consequences of 2014 restrictions. The aim was to identify the changes in price gradients encouraging cross-border food shopping ...