The 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 It is no longer active, but its datasets are available on this website and this type of research continues at the HBS Pricing Lab.
Related Initiatives
Inflacion Verdadera
No longer active, this was the original academic project to show the real inflation rate in Argentina during 2007 and 2015 (and later Venezuela in 2017-2018). See www.inflacionverdadera.com
HBS Pricing Lab
The HBS Pricing Lab conducts academic research on firm-level pricing decisions and their impact on the economy. See www.pricinglab.org.