Salomé Baslandze
Research Economist and Associate Adviser
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Salomé Baslandze is a research fellow and associate adviser on the macroeconomics and monetary policy team in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and a research fellow at Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Her major fields of study are innovation, firm dynamics, growth, and entrepreneurship.
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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 fellow 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.
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Federal Reserve Bank work older than 6 years.
2020
Ufuk Akcigit, Salomé Baslandze, and Francesca Lotti. "Connecting to Power: Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics." Working Paper 2020-5. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. April 2020.
David Argente, Salomé Baslandze, Douglas Hanley, and Sara Moreira. "Patents to Products: Product Innovation and Firm Dynamics." Working Paper 2020-4a. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. January 2020 (revised September 2025).
External work by Atlanta Fed staff.
Book Chapters
2023
Van Reenen, John, and Ufuk Akcigit, eds. 2023. "Barriers to Creative Destruction: Large Firms and Non-Productive Strategies," in The Economics of Creative Destruction: New Research on Themes. Harvard University Press.
Publications
Accepted
"Foundational Processes and Growth" (with Wing Wah Tham, Elvira Sojli, and Leo Liu). Journal of Financial Economics.
2023
"The Expansion of Product Varieties in the New Age of Advertising" (with Jeremy Greenwood, Ricardo Marto, and Sara Moreira). Review of Economic Dynamics. 2023, Volume 50.
"Connecting to Power: Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics" (with Ufuk Akcigit and Francesca Lotti). Econometrica. 2023, 91(20).
2022
Comment on "Does the Cream Always Rise to the Top? The Misallocation of Talent in Innovation" Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, 2022, vol. 133(C), 129–131.
2016
"Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors" (with Ufuk Akcigit and Stefanie Stantcheva). American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (10): 2930–2981.