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Alberto Cavallo
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 69
Citations - 1956
Alberto Cavallo is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Inflation & Exchange rate. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 60 publications receiving 1481 citations. Previous affiliations of Alberto Cavallo include International Monetary Fund & Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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The Billion Prices Project: Using Online Prices for Measurement and Research
Alberto Cavallo,Roberto Rigobon +1 more
TL;DR: The Billion Prices Project as discussed by the authors collects 5 million prices from over 300 retailers in 50 countries and uses them to study price stickiness and investigate the "law of one price" in international economics.
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Are Online and Offline Prices Similar? Evidence from Large Multi-channel Retailers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relation between online prices and prices collected offline, where most retail transactions take place in the US. But little is known about their relation to prices collected online.
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Currency Unions, Product Introductions, and the Real Exchange Rate*
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use a data set of online prices of identical goods sold by four large global retailers in dozens of countries to study good-level real exchange rates and their aggregated behavior.
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Inflation Expectations, Learning, and Supermarket Prices: Evidence from Survey Experiments
TL;DR: This article found that cognitive limitations also appear to be a source of information frictions: even when information about inflation statistics is available, individuals still place a significant weight on inaccurate sources of information, such as their memories of the price changes of the supermarket products they purchase.
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Online and official price indexes: Measuring Argentina's inflation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the ability of online retailers to match official inflation estimates in five Latin American countries, with a focus on Argentina, where official statistics have been heavily criticized in recent years.