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Alberto Cavallo

Associate Professor of Applied Economics at Sloan School of Management

Associate Professor at Harvard Business School

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  • Harvard Business School
  • Sloan School of Management

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Sloan School of Management

Alberto Cavallo is the Douglas Drane Career Development Professor in Information Technology and Management and an Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Alberto'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 cofounded the Billion Prices Project at MIT, an academic initiative that pioneered the use of online data to conduct research on high-frequency price dynamics and inflation measurement.  He is also a cofounder of PriceStats, the leading global provider of inflation statistics, and Dineromail, the first online-payments company in Latin America,

Alberto received a BS fron Universidad de San Andres in Argentina in 2000, an MBA from MIT Sloan in 2005 and a PhD from Harvard University in 2010. He is married and has a son.

Harvard Business School

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).

Cavallo's research focuses on the behavior of prices and its implications for macroeconomic measurement, models and policies. He pioneered the use of online data to measure inflation and conduct research on high-frequency pricing dynamics during his Ph.D. at Harvard. He created Inflacion Verdadera in 2007 to measure the real inflation rate in Argentina and co-founded The Billion Prices Project in 2008 to expand the measurement of online inflation globally. He also co-founded PriceStats in 2011, the leading private source of inflation and PPP statistics in over 20 countries.

Cavallo earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics with summa cum laude from the Universidad of San Andres in Buenos Aires in 2000. In 2005, he earned an Masters in Business Administration from MIT, and in 2010 he earned a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two sons.

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