MIT Sloan - Alberto Cavallo

Alberto Cavallo

Assistant Professor
Applied Economics Group

Alberto Cavallo's research focuses on the micro-level behavior of prices and its implications for macroeconomic models and policies. His empirical 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 at MIT, a research initiative that uses online data to conduct research on high-frequency price dynamics and inflation. Prior to Sloan, he co-founded Dineromail, the leading online-payments company in Latin America. Alberto received a B.S. fron Universidad de San Andres in Argentina in 2000, an MBA from MIT Sloan in 2005 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2010. He is married and has a son.

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Office Address
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sloan School of Management
100 Main Street, Office E62-512
Cambridge, MA 02142

Research Fields
Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics

Teaching
15.012 Applied Macro and International Economics

Articles in the Press and Blogs

• Price in a trice The Economist, June 23rd 2011

• Soaring inflation? Not with 9% unemployment USA Today, June 9th 2011

• A Billion Prices Now The New Yorker. May 30th 2011

• The Prices Are Right Scientific American. May 2011

• The Billion Price Preview- Paul Krugman's Blog, March 28th 2011

• New Indications of Inflation EconBrowser - by James Hamilton. February 20th 2011

• The Billion Price Index- Paul Krugman's Blog, February 18th 2011