The phrase "artificially expensive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where the price of something is higher than it would normally be due to external factors or manipulation.
Example: "The new regulations have made the cost of raw materials artificially expensive, impacting the overall pricing of the final product."
Alternatives: "unjustifiably high" or "artificially inflated".
The electricity it produced was artificially expensive.
That, in turn, makes corn products and meats artificially expensive for consumers, not artificially cheap.
Some wonder whether the market is broken in some way, creating a bubble of artificially expensive oil.
International prices must be fairly set so exports are not artificially expensive and imports are not artificially cheap.
Some people cannot afford to buy the artificially expensive drugs they want to take and resort to theft.
The effect is to wreak havoc in trade, swamping neighboring countries with artificially cheap Uzbek products and making most exports to Uzbekistan artificially expensive.
He added: "This would artificially protect more expensive technologies and the big six energy companies from much-needed competition".
The list begins with a forbidding political culture characterised by deeply acrimonious five-hour city council meetings and culminates in the persistent "urbanophobia" that has kept the city's housing stock artificially low, scarce and expensive.
Bill Drayton and others have pointed out payroll taxes artificially make hiring too expensive and non-labor production factors (energy, natural resources/materials, land) too cheap, with the result that we underutilize the former and overconsume the latter.
Since this wood is more expensive, government policy artificially increases the costs of building materials in public projects, with taxpayers footing the bill.
The Volt, which costs $41,000 before a $7,500 federal tax credit for electric vehicles, has become a favorite target of conservative commentators and lawmakers, who say it is too expensive and is being artificially supported by taxpayer money.
