Chiara Salvatori

Chiara Salvatori is a third-year Ph.D. student in economics at Roma Tre University, where she obtained a master’s degree in Economics in 2015 with a thesis on capacity utilization. Since 2018 she has been a teaching assistant in Microeconomics. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the notion and measures of potential output within a demand-led growth approach.

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Slack in the Economy, Not Inflation, Should Be Bigger Worry

Article | May 19, 2021

Despite fear-mongering about the latest Consumer Price Index, unemployment remains elevated and stimulus is needed to prevent a collapse in demand

The Updated Okun Method for Estimation of Potential Output with Broad Measures of Labor Underutilization: An Empirical Analysis

Paper Working Paper Series | | May 2021

Despite fear-mongering about the latest Consumer Price Index, unemployment remains elevated and stimulus is needed to prevent a collapse in demand

Is it Really "Full Employment"? Margins for Expansion in the US Economy in the Middle of 2019

Article | Sep 6, 2019

Many indicators say the US is close to full employment: Hours of work tell a different story.

Why We Need New Measures of Potential Output—and What They Tell Us

Article | May 16, 2019

Everyone is waking up to the fact that estimates of what is possible in the economy are way off: this paper explains why