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Alberto Cavallo
Alberto Cavallo
Alberto Cavallo is the Edgerley Family Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Professor Cavallo's research focuses on the behavior of prices and its implications for macroeconomic measurement and policies. His work is based on the use of daily data collected from hundreds of online retailers around the world. He co-founded The Billion Prices Project, an academic initiative at Harvard and MIT that pioneered the use of online data to conduct research on high-frequency price dynamics and inflation measurement. He also created Inflacion Verdadera to measure the real inflation rate in Argentina and Venezuela and co-founded two private companies: Dineromail, the first online-payments company in Latin America, and PriceStats, the leading private source of inflation and PPP statistics. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2010, an MBA from MIT Sloan in 2005, and a B.S. from Universidad de San Andres in Argentina in 2000.
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