Alberto Cavallo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3960619 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alberto Cavallo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alberto |
| FAMILY NAME | Cavallo |
| SIGNATURE | CAVALLO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | MIT and NBER |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Targeted Price Controls on Supermarket Products
We study the impact of targeted price controls on supermarket products in Argentina. Using daily prices for controlled and noncontrolled goods, we examine the effects on inflation, product availability, entry and exit, and price dispersion. First, price controls have only a small and temporary effect on inflation that reverses soon after the controls are lifted. Second, contrary to common belief, controlled goods are consistently available for sa…
Scraped Data and Sticky Prices
I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price stickiness statistics. Relative to previous results, I find that online prices have longer durations, with fewer price changes close to 0, and hazard functions that initially increase over time. I show that time-averaging and imputed prices in scanner and CPI data can fully explain the differences with the literature.…
The Billion Prices Project: Using Online Prices for Measurement and Research
A large and growing share of retail prices all over the world are posted online on the websites of retailers. This is a massive and (until recently) untapped source of retail price information. Our objective with the Billion Prices Project, created at MIT in 2008, is to experiment with these new sources of information to improve the computation of traditional economic indicators, starting with the Consumer Price Index. We also seek to understand …
Sudden stops: Determinants and output effects in the first era of globalization, 1880–1913
The Billion Prices Project: Using Online Prices for Measurement and Research
A large and growing share of retail prices all over the world are posted online on the websites of retailers. This is a massive and (until recently) untapped source of retail price information. Our objective with the Billion Prices Project, created at MIT in 2008, is to experiment with these new sources of information to improve the computation of traditional economic indicators, starting with the Consumer Price Index. We also seek to understand …
Sudden stops: Determinants and output effects in the first era of globalization, 1880–1913
Sudden stops: Determinants and output effects in the first era of globalization, 1880–1913
The Billion Prices Project: Using Online Prices for Measurement and Research
A large and growing share of retail prices all over the world are posted online on the websites of retailers. This is a massive and (until recently) untapped source of retail price information. Our objective with the Billion Prices Project, created at MIT in 2008, is to experiment with these new sources of information to improve the computation of traditional economic indicators, starting with the Consumer Price Index. We also seek to understand …
Scraped Data and Sticky Prices
I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price stickiness statistics. Relative to previous results, I find that online prices have longer durations, with fewer price changes close to 0, and hazard functions that initially increase over time. I show that time-averaging and imputed prices in scanner and CPI data can fully explain the differences with the literature.…
Targeted Price Controls on Supermarket Products
We study the impact of targeted price controls on supermarket products in Argentina. Using daily prices for controlled and noncontrolled goods, we examine the effects on inflation, product availability, entry and exit, and price dispersion. First, price controls have only a small and temporary effect on inflation that reverses soon after the controls are lifted. Second, contrary to common belief, controlled goods are consistently available for sa…
Economics (4 works) · Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing (3 works) · Monetary economics (3 works) · Auction Theory and Applications (2 works) · Microeconomics (2 works) · Monetary Policy and Economic Impact (2 works) · Business (1 works) · Capital (architecture (1 works) · Capital account (1 works) · Capital flows (1 works)