Alberto Cavallo
@albertocavallo
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Professor - Harvard Business School. HBS Pricing Lab, InflacionVerdadera, The Billion Prices Project, and Pricestats.
Boston, MA
Joined April 2009
Huge congratulations to the PriceStats team and CEO Pilar Iglesias on the acquisition! 15 years of measuring inflation daily, in 25 countries, with only a 3-day lag — an extraordinary achievement that proved that inflation can be tracked in real time. 👏🎉 https://t.co/KXg2O0snbn
investors.statestreet.com
State Street will leverage PriceStats to develop new, proprietary data products designed to accelerate investment decision making State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) today announced the recent...
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We updated the HBS tariff tracker through November 1. Results remain stable: imported goods up 6.7 percent vs pre-tariff trends, domestic goods up 4 percent. The combined impact from these sectors is now estimated at 0.63 percentage points. See https://t.co/nPHKTLljJI
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With our acquisition of PriceStats, we are redefining investor decision-making. Our new #DataIntelligence suite is built to deliver sharper, quicker insights that help clients see what others can’t and stay ahead of market shifts. Learn more about our data intelligence
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I co-authored an article for this volume examining threats to the integrity of US economic data, including political pressure, and the importance of protecting credible official statistics.
Second revised edition out today:
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Tariff costs were gradually but steadily transmitted to US consumers, with additional spillovers to domestic goods, from @albertocavallo, Paola Llamas, and @VazquezFrancom
https://t.co/EAXM6ETNqK
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LISTEN (or read): @ChadBown joined @EconoFactOrg to discuss the rollout & consequences of Trump's sweeping tariffs since "Liberation Day," & how they compare to the tariffs enacted during the first Trump administration.
econofact.org
A discussion with Chad Bown on the rollout and consequences of the tariffs the Trump administration put in place in April 2025.
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I joined NPR's Planet Money with Kenny Malone to explain how tariffs are showing up in US retail prices. I come in at minute 18 🎧 Fun episode! https://t.co/8II1HqEEbi
npr.org
Tariffs. They’ve been announced, unannounced, re-announced, raised and lowered. It’s an on-going saga with billions at stake!On today’s episode, we run full-on at the twisty, turny drama of life with...
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We updated our US tariff paper last week with new evidence. Figure 7 shows the cumulative impact of the tariffs on headline CPI through September, measured as the deviation from pre tariff trends and weighted with official CPI expenditure data. Imported goods alone added about
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Imperdible reportaje de Jorge Fontevecchia a Larry Kotlikoff https://t.co/8ZibIxhaUz
perfil.com
Economista formado en Harvard, referente global en contabilidad generacional, considerado uno de los 25 economistas más influyentes del mundo por “The Economist” y candidato presidencial independie...
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👉 La propuesta de mi padre para Argentina: peso convertible y dolar como moneda de curso legal https://t.co/Q5dVe6LEqK
cavallo.com.ar
El contundente triunfo del presidente Milei en la elección de medio término abre la posibilidad de que los dos próximos años sean de estabilidad, reactivación y crecimiento sostenidos. Las señales …
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Big update to our US Tariffs Paper: 📦 Pass-through ≈20% (using applied tariff rates, accounting for exemptions) 💸 “Cheapflation”: cheaper goods within categories saw 2× higher inflation 📈 Cumulative CPI impact: +0.7 percentage points More details https://t.co/8yvIaQNnBN
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New piece by the Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS), featuring findings from our HBS Tariff Tracker and @jaya_wen_econ on the trade war. https://t.co/hYTrfxuxYp
hbs.edu
Prices are rising for both imported and domestic goods, according to a Harvard professor tracking 350,000 items in real time.
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Tariffs on imported goods are at their highest level since 1935. How are these tariffs impacting retail prices? @albertocavallo, Paola Llamas and Franco Vazquez explain. https://t.co/Ae0QwJsOVR
econofact.org
Prices of over 350,000 products at major U.S. retailers show a slow and gradual pass-through of tariffs to consumers. Both imports and U.S.-made goods are affected.
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Great new paper by my colleague @jaya_wen_econ: export restrictions meant to slow China’s technological rise ended up boosting innovation instead. https://t.co/JSKT0yyaO8
New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20690 Export Controls and Innovation in Sanctioned Countries Xueyue Liu @Fudan_SOE, Yu Liu @FudanUniv, @alexeymakarin @MITSloan, Jaya Wen @HarvardHBS
https://t.co/Jda8vc7LTB
#CEPR_DE #CEPR_IMF #CEPR_ITRE #CEPR_PoE #EconTwitter
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Web designers like @reijowrites bring powerful interactions to the web with one platform: Framer
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September’s #USInflation rise defied seasonal norms. @pricestats data shows a 0.24 percent monthly increase, lifting annual inflation to 2.66 percent, its highest since October 2023. Michael Metcalfe, head of Macro Strategy, warns that hopes for rate cut may be at risk.
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Congratulations to Philippe Aghion! A wonderful recognition for a scholar who redefined our understanding of economic growth and progress. I was fortunate to have him as a professor and one of my thesis advisors. His positivity, boundless curiosity, and rare gift for making
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr
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The US government shutdown raises questions, particularly around near-term economic impacts and the gap left when public data is delayed or unavailable. We take a deep dive on those questions, with a focus on the September US CPI release and alternative data sets. @pricestats
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Private data like @HarvardHBS Pricing Lab is now as important as ever. @JeffHorwich talked with @Harvard's @albertocavallo about their findings on tariffs and how to interpret them.
minneapolisfed.org
Prices are rising for U.S. consumers even as cautious retailers eat much of the tariffs for now
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Tariffs continue to show up in prices: • Imported goods: 6.5% above pre-tariff trends • Domestic goods: 4.5% above Updated charts and data available at https://t.co/4k4b8kcRrD
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