Ioana Marinescu

Ioana Marinescu is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice, with secondary appointments in the Economics Department and the Wharton School of Business. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and served as Principal Economist at the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division (2022–2024). Her work bridges labor economics, antitrust, and technological change to analyze how market power and innovation affect wages, employment, and inequality.

• Labor Economics
• Industrial Organization
• Public Policy
• Artificial Intelligence Economics
• Social Policy

Marinescu’s research focuses on labor market monopsony, antitrust enforcement in labor markets, and policy tools like universal cash transfers and competition policy to promote economic equity. Recent projects include analyzing AI’s economic implications and labor market concentration using job vacancy data.

Her publications appear in top journals like the Review of Economic Studies and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. She contributes policy analysis to outlets such as the New York Times and The Economist, and writes a monthly op-ed for Liberation. She co-developed antitrust guidelines for labor market impacts and advises Anthropic’s Economic Advisory Council.