About Me

Ioana Marinescu is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice, with secondary appointments in the Economics Department and the Wharton School of Business (BEPP), and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Marinescu examines labor markets, market power, and technological change, with current work focusing on artificial intelligence. Her pioneering research on wages and monopsony power led to her Congressional testimony on labor market competition and her subsequent appointment as principal economist at the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division (2022-2024). There, she helped integrate labor market analysis into the 2023 Merger Guidelines, the first version to explicitly address worker impacts. Her current projects focus on the economic implications of artificial intelligence and on policy tools, such as safety nets and competition policy, that can foster broad-based prosperity in an AI-driven economy. She was appointed to Anthropic’s Economic Advisory Council in 2025 to advise on the economic implications of AI, and provides briefings and expert insights on labor markets, antitrust, and AI to policymakers, journalists, and private-sector leaders. Marinescu publishes in top journals including the Review of Economic Studies and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, where she serves as an associate editor. Her research and expertise are regularly featured in outlets like the New York Times and Fortune. DOWNLOAD ALL HER RECENT WORKING PAPERS FOR FREE ON SSRN.