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Salomé Baslandze is a research economist and assistant adviser on the macroeconomics and monetary policy team in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and a research affiliate at Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Her major fields of study are innovation, firm dynamics, growth, and entrepreneurship.
Prior to joining the Bank in 2019, Dr. Baslandze was an assistant professor of economics at the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance in Rome, Italy. Dr. Baslandze obtained her doctorate degree in economics in 2015 from the University of Pennsylvania. She received her master's degree in economics in 2009 from ISET, Georgia, and her bachelor's degree in mathematics in 2007 from the Tbilisi State University, Georgia.
2023-15
The Expansion of Varieties in the New Age of Advertising
Salomé Baslandze, Jeremy Greenwood, Ricardo Marto, and Sara Moreira
September 2023
2022-10
Entrepreneurship through Employee Mobility, Innovation, and Growth
Salomé Baslandze
September 2022
2021-23
Barriers to Creative Destruction: Large Firms and Nonproductive Strategies
Salomé Baslandze
September 2021
2020-5
Connecting to Power: Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics
Ufuk Akcigit, Salomé Baslandze, and Francesca Lotti
April 2020
2020-4
Patents to Products: Product Innovation and Firm Dynamics
David Argente, Salomé Baslandze, Douglas Hanley, and Sara Moreira
April 2020
Salomé Baslandze, Camelia Minoiu, Veronika Penciakova, and Jonathan L. Willis. "Do Credit Supply Shocks Constrain Employment Growth of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises?" Policy Hub (2023-5).
M. Melinda Pitts, John Robertson, and Salomé Baslandze. "Labor Supply, Wages, and Inequality Conference: Day 2 Overview" Policy Hub: Macroblog. December 1, 2022.
Salomé Baslandze, Simon Fuchs, Indrajit Mitra, and Veronika Penciakova. "The Atlanta Fed's Early Career Visitor Program Workshop: A Synopsis," Policy Hub: Macroblog. October 20, 2022.
Salomé Baslandze. ""Some Firms Are Just Born Different": A Discussion of Firms and Innovation." Economy Matters podcast. March 30, 2023.
"Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors" (with Ufuk Akcigit and Stefanie Stantcheva). American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (10): 2930–2981.