Professor Ioana Marinescu is a distinguished economist and Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice, with secondary appointments in the Economics Department and the Wharton School of Business. She is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and served as the Principal Economist at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division from July 2022 to June 2024, where she advised on high-stakes antitrust enforcement and labor market policy.
A leading scholar in labor economics, her research expertise includes monopsony power and antitrust law for the labor market. Ioana’s research is published in top-tier academic journals including the Review of Economic Studies and the Quarterly Journal of Economics where she is also an associate editor.
Professor Marinescu’s expertise is sought after in both public and private spheres. She has testified before Congress, the Federal Trade Commission, and White House roundtables, and her work is regularly featured in major media outlets like the New York Times and the Washington Post.
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