Harvard Business School found that the average duration for regular price changes fell to 3.65 months in 2014 to 2017 from 6.7 months in 2008 to 2010. It also investigated how prices at Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy and Safeway vary across geographic locations. Harvard’s Alberto Cavallo concludes that the paper’s most important finding is that
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A discussion of competition and “superstar” firms at an exclusive economic policy conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, threw up a spirited defense of global trade, while central bankers were also warned of the low level of trust they have among the public.

When thinking about the “Amazon Effect,” one may think invariably about retail, and the impact the eCommerce giant has on the sector — changing the very nature of how everything from books to clothes are bought and brought to end customers.

Harvard University professor Alberto Cavallo presents a paper at Kansas City Fed’s annual economic symposium

The increase in popularity and decrease in prices from Amazon may be to blame for the rise in inflation over the last few years, reports Reuters.

Retailers’ prices have grown more uniform across locations, finds a paper presented at Jackson Hole

It is an area rich in data waiting to be mined–and the results could bring more clarity to India’s perennial inflation debates.

Desbordado por las alzas, salidas de quicio, el gobierno de Maduro abandonó informes sobre precious.