Online and official price indexes: Measuring Argentina's inflation

Prices collected from online retailers can be used to construct daily price indexes that complement official statistics. This paper studies their ability to match official inflation estimates in five Latin American countries, with a focus on Argentina, where official statistics have been heavily cri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cavallo, Alberto F.
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107462
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9701-3507