Category: News

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China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers

Brookings – “Hutchins Roundup: State estate taxes, occupational licensing, and more”

Forbes – “Trump Still Doesn’t Know Who Pays Tariffs”

The New York Times – “Trump’s China Deal Leaves the Global Economy as Uncertain as Ever”

The Economist – “Technology is making inflation statistics an unreliable guide to the economy”

BBC News – “Trump’s tariffs puts Apple’s golden goose at risk”

Today – “Get smart about shopping online and save money”

The Times – “Dynamic pricing may look like a rip-off but has benefits for us all”

USA Today – “Low online prices are great for shoppers. But they’re killing small businesses”

HBS Working Knowledge – “Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More”

Supply Chain Dive – “Rapid price changes make retailers more vulnerable to shocks”

Digital Commerce 360 – “Prices are becoming more uniform and that’s to Amazon’s advantage”

DNA India – “The Amazon effects and monopsony”

Bloomberg – “The ‘Amazon Effect’ Can Drive Prices Up, Too”

StockNews – “Amazon, Inc. (AMZN) Making Comparison Shopping Less Interesting These Days”

LSA Commerce Connecté – “How Amazon is standardizing prices in US retail (Fr.)”

Evening Standard – “Russell Lynch: Topsy-turvy world of rising interest rates and falling mortgage costs won’t last for ever”

Mint – “Snap Fact: The link between online prices and inflation”

Market Watch – “How Amazon is killing comparison shopping”

MIT Management Sloan School – “Measuring the Facts: Using Data to Tell the True Story of Inflation”

The Media Line – “The Rise Of E-Commerce In The Middle East”

Brookings – “Hutchins Roundup: Monetary policy response to labor market slack, online competition, and more”

Browse Live News – “The ‘Amazon Effect’ Might Have An Impact Over The Dynamics Of Inflation”

The Conversation – “Vital Signs: online retailing is changing our lives, whether we use it or not”

CNBC – “Under ‘Amazon effect’ retailers could be more exposed to supply shocks”

Taipei Times – “Central banks hear warnings about trade, low trust”

PYMNTS – “How The Amazon Effect Affects Inflation, eCommerce”

Devdiscourse – “REUTERS NEWS SCHEDULE AT 10 a.m.”

Axios – “Amazon’s low pricing may be to blame for cause of inflation”

The Wall Street Journal – “The Other Amazon Effect: How Prices Have Become Less Insulated From Supply Shocks”

Mint – “What e-commerce could mean for inflation in India”

El Tiempo – “El arte de medir ‘por control remoto’ la inflación venezolana”

UCLA Anderson Review – “Citizens not fooled by inflation statistics”

INews – “The music we listen to can tell us a lot about the state of the economy”

Financial Times – “Mapping the economy in real time is almost ‘within our grasp’”

The Wall Street Journal – “Can’t Wait a Month for Inflation Data? Daily Gauge Shows Prices in Real Time”

Financial Times – “Can big data revolutionise policymaking by governments?”

Central Banking – “Economics in central banking: Alberto Cavallo and Roberto Rigobon – Billion Prices Project/PriceStats”

The Wall Street Journal – “As the Fed Deliberates, Amazon Is Making Its Job More Difficult”

New York Times – “An Economist Explains: How to Sort Facts From Fictions”

ECB Press – “Policy analysis with big data”

Nexo – “Como a América Latina pode superar a inflação, segundo este economista do MIT.”

El Nacional – “En busca de la (hiper) inflación oculta”

Marketwatch – “This is how much Americans would save if they did all their shopping online”

Bloomberg – “Prices Keep Falling Faster Online. But for How Long?”

América Economía – “Big data y la ciencia económica”

Project Syndicate – “Economic Forecasts in the Age of Big Data – Project Syndicate”