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