The Billion Prices Project: Using Online Prices for Measurement and Research
New data-gathering techniques, often referred to as “Big Data” have the potential to improve statistics and empirical research in economics. In this paper we describe our work with online data at the Billion Prices Project at MIT and discuss key lessons for both inflation measurement and some fundam...
Main Authors: | Cavallo, Alberto F., Rigobon, Roberto |
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Other Authors: | Sloan School of Management |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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American Economic Association
2016
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105176 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9701-3507 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9054-3804 |
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