History

January 2024
The China Aggregate Inflation Series is released.
August 2022
The Poland Inflation Series and the US Dollar PPP Series released.
May 2022
The Canada and Mexico PPP Series are released.
January 2022
The Mexico Inflation Series and US Apparel Inflation Series are released.
October 2020
The New Zealand Inflation Series is released.
September 2020
PriceStats celebrates its 10-year anniversary!
April 2020
Item-level data is offered for free to statistical offices to help out during the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.
March 2020
The Out of Stock Series is released for key economies in response to the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
October 2019
The France, Spain and Eurozone PPP Series are released.
July 2018
The Inflation Series is upgraded to increase the robustness of the series, widen sector and sub-sector coverage, and better capture seasonality in apparel.
May 2016
The Germany & Japan PPP Series are released.
April 2015
The United States Ex-Fuel Series is released.
May 2014
The PPP Series is released with charts on real exchange rates, relative prices, and over/undervaluation for Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, South Africa and the UK vs. the US.
February 2014
The Turkey Inflation Series is released.
January 2014
PriceStats Uruguay opens its office in Montevideo.
August 2013
The Venezuela Index was removed due to the significant reduction in the number of prices available online. We continue to collect available data and hope to publish the index again soon.
January 2013
The Global Inflation series is released, including the World Inflation series, the Food Inflation series and the Fuel Inflation series.
November 2012
United States sector series are released.
October 2012
The Canada, Greece and South Korea Inflation Series are released.
February 2012
The Economist begins using the State Street PriceStats Argentina Daily Inflation Series in replacement of Argentina’s official inflation figures.
November 2011
The Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Russia, South Africa, Uruguay and Venezuela Inflation Series are released.
September 2011
The Ireland, Italy, Spain and Netherlands Inflation Series are released.
August 2011
The China Fresh Food and China Supermarkets Inflation Series are released.
July 2011
The Japan and Australia Inflation Series are released.
May 2011
PriceStats establishes a partnership with State Street to bring its indices to the financial sector. Five inflation series are released first: US, UK, Brazil, Germany & France.
March 2011
PriceStats gets its first formal office and moves into the Cambridge Innovation Center.
September 2010
Pilar Iglesias, Roberto Rigobon, and Alberto Cavallo found PriceStats with the objective of bringing the academic research to market, with Pilar as CEO.
January 2009
Roberto starts using BPP indicators in conferences and predicts the end of the 2009 US recession by using the US BPP Inflation Index.
April 2008
Alberto publishes an alternative inflation index for Argentina which is updated on a daily basis in the website Inflacion Verdadera.
March 2008
Alberto Cavallo & Roberto Rigobon expand the data collection to 50 countries, starting an MIT academic initiative called the Billion Prices Project to conduct academic research using online data.
October 2007
Alberto Cavallo develops daily inflation statistics using online prices for Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and Colombia as part of his Ph.D. thesis at Harvard University, “Scraped Data and Sticky Prices: Frequency, Hazards, and Synchronization.”