Salome Baslandze is a Research Economist and Assistant Adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and a Research Affiliate at CEPR. She received her Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. From 2015 to 2019, she was an assistant professor at the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF). Her research interests are in Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics.