Inflación Verdadera
No longer active, this was the original academic project to show the real inflation rate in Argentina during 2007–2015, and later Venezuela during 2017–2018.
Visit the projectThe Billion Prices Project
The BPP was an academic initiative founded in 2008 by Alberto Cavallo at Harvard and Roberto Rigobon at MIT to conduct research on macro and international economics. It is no longer active, but its datasets are available on this website and this type of research continues at the HBS Pricing Lab.
Where the work continues
Related Initiatives
HBS Pricing Lab
The HBS Pricing Lab conducts academic research on firm-level pricing decisions and their impact on the economy.
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Current indicators
Daily Inflation
The micro data used in the BPP were collected by PriceStats, a private company now part of State Street’s Data Intelligence unit. For current real-time inflation indicators, visit State Street PriceStats.
State Street PriceStats