Ioana Marinescu
@imarinescu.bsky.social
Economist @PennSP2, former principal economist DOJ #Antitrust. #AI, labor, IO, public, macro. Member, Anthropic Economic Advisory Council. Better the world through knowledge. www.marinescu.eu
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(Artificial) Intelligence saturation and the future of work | Brookings
In a new working paper, UPenn's Konrad Kording and Ioana Marinescu present a novel framework for assessing AI and the future of work
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New @brookings.edu paper w. @kordinglab.bsky.social : Artificial Intelligence Saturation & the Future of Work. Wages can ↗️&↘️with #AI automation, as humans are pushed into physical jobs. In the longer run, intelligence saturation limits benefits from #AI. www.brookings.edu/articles/art... #EconSky
New @brookings.edu paper w. @kordinglab.bsky.social : Artificial Intelligence Saturation & the Future of Work. Wages can ↗️&↘️with #AI automation, as humans are pushed into physical jobs. In the longer run, intelligence saturation limits benefits from #AI. www.brookings.edu/articles/art... #EconSky
(Artificial) Intelligence saturation and the future of work | Brookings
In a new working paper, UPenn's Konrad Kording and Ioana Marinescu present a novel framework for assessing AI and the future of work
www.brookings.edu
November 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
New @brookings.edu paper w. @kordinglab.bsky.social : Artificial Intelligence Saturation & the Future of Work. Wages can ↗️&↘️with #AI automation, as humans are pushed into physical jobs. In the longer run, intelligence saturation limits benefits from #AI. www.brookings.edu/articles/art... #EconSky
Listen to our conversation on competition and #monopsony in the labor market, and the #antitrust policy implications. I had a lot of fun talking to David Fisher from AAI, like we had to cut out some of the laughing 🤭. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
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From Labor Market Theory to Antitrust Policy: A Conversation with Ioana Marinescu - American Antitrust Institute
On this episode of Ruled by Reason, AAI Senior Counsel David O. Fisher talks with leading economist Ioana Marinescu about the theoretical frameworks underpinning labor monopsony and how they apply … C...
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October 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Listen to our conversation on competition and #monopsony in the labor market, and the #antitrust policy implications. I had a lot of fun talking to David Fisher from AAI, like we had to cut out some of the laughing 🤭. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
www.antitrustinstitute.org/work-product...
www.antitrustinstitute.org/work-product...
Nice to see our work covered here 👇
New research from PSC researcher @pgonalon.bsky.social with @imarinescu.bsky.social shows that the high cost of U.S. childcare breeds family income inequality.
Learn more in OMNIA: bit.ly/48W3iOT
Read the study in American Sociological Review:
bit.ly/4h60nVY
Learn more in OMNIA: bit.ly/48W3iOT
Read the study in American Sociological Review:
bit.ly/4h60nVY
October 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Nice to see our work covered here 👇
Congratulations to my mentor and co-author Philippe Aghion!!!! His broad contributions to economics and boundless creative energy are truly inspiring.
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research on how technological innovation fuels economic growth and creative destruction. n.pr/4oh42lZ
3 share Nobel Prize in Economics for work on technology, growth and creative destruction
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research on how technological innovation fuels economic growth and creative destruction.
n.pr
October 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Congratulations to my mentor and co-author Philippe Aghion!!!! His broad contributions to economics and boundless creative energy are truly inspiring.
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AI Acquihires: Competition Risks, Talent Battles and Economic Spillovers Webinar - 8 October @ 17:00 CEST
🗣️Jonathan Kanter @lugaricano.bsky.social @imarinescu.bsky.social @igorletina.bsky.social Hans Zenger
Moderator: @florianederer.bsky.social
Register: cepr.org/events/ai-ac...
#EconSky
🗣️Jonathan Kanter @lugaricano.bsky.social @imarinescu.bsky.social @igorletina.bsky.social Hans Zenger
Moderator: @florianederer.bsky.social
Register: cepr.org/events/ai-ac...
#EconSky
September 25, 2025 at 7:55 AM
AI Acquihires: Competition Risks, Talent Battles and Economic Spillovers Webinar - 8 October @ 17:00 CEST
🗣️Jonathan Kanter @lugaricano.bsky.social @imarinescu.bsky.social @igorletina.bsky.social Hans Zenger
Moderator: @florianederer.bsky.social
Register: cepr.org/events/ai-ac...
#EconSky
🗣️Jonathan Kanter @lugaricano.bsky.social @imarinescu.bsky.social @igorletina.bsky.social Hans Zenger
Moderator: @florianederer.bsky.social
Register: cepr.org/events/ai-ac...
#EconSky
Fellow economists, what kind of question would you most like to be asked when meeting someone at a conference? #EconSky
1. What are your working on?
2. What is your field?
3. What is exciting in your field?
4. Other: spill the beans!
1. What are your working on?
2. What is your field?
3. What is exciting in your field?
4. Other: spill the beans!
September 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Fellow economists, what kind of question would you most like to be asked when meeting someone at a conference? #EconSky
1. What are your working on?
2. What is your field?
3. What is exciting in your field?
4. Other: spill the beans!
1. What are your working on?
2. What is your field?
3. What is exciting in your field?
4. Other: spill the beans!
Reposted by Ioana Marinescu
Common Ownership & Employee Earnings
updated & improved
Consider a pair of companies that sell into the same product market. If pair shares common owners, the owners have incentive for pair to soften competition.
Same with local labor market competition
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
updated & improved
Consider a pair of companies that sell into the same product market. If pair shares common owners, the owners have incentive for pair to soften competition.
Same with local labor market competition
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
September 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Common Ownership & Employee Earnings
updated & improved
Consider a pair of companies that sell into the same product market. If pair shares common owners, the owners have incentive for pair to soften competition.
Same with local labor market competition
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
updated & improved
Consider a pair of companies that sell into the same product market. If pair shares common owners, the owners have incentive for pair to soften competition.
Same with local labor market competition
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Proud to support @anthropic.com’s new Economic Futures Program as a member of their Economic Advisory Council!
• Research grants up to $50,000 (rolling basis)
• Policy proposal competition
• Expanded Economic Index data access
Apply: www.anthropic.com/economic-futures
#AI #EconSky
• Research grants up to $50,000 (rolling basis)
• Policy proposal competition
• Expanded Economic Index data access
Apply: www.anthropic.com/economic-futures
#AI #EconSky
Anthropic Economic Futures
A multidisciplinary program funding research grants, policy development, and data infrastructure to help society understand and navigate AI's economic transformation.
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July 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Proud to support @anthropic.com’s new Economic Futures Program as a member of their Economic Advisory Council!
• Research grants up to $50,000 (rolling basis)
• Policy proposal competition
• Expanded Economic Index data access
Apply: www.anthropic.com/economic-futures
#AI #EconSky
• Research grants up to $50,000 (rolling basis)
• Policy proposal competition
• Expanded Economic Index data access
Apply: www.anthropic.com/economic-futures
#AI #EconSky
“Us vs. them” mentality is not the way to intellectual progress nor to a healthy democratic debate.👇
This would be an extremely bad idea. It will not satisfy them. It will acknowledge that they are right about something. It will empower them. Literally nothing that anyone should do, should be oriented towards placating this administration.
Exclusive: Harvard leaders have discussed creating a center for conservative scholarship as the school fights the Trump administration’s accusations that it is too liberal.
July 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“Us vs. them” mentality is not the way to intellectual progress nor to a healthy democratic debate.👇
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Very excited that our paper (joint with Jarkko Harju and @schoefer.bsky.social) on "Voice at Work" is published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. We study what happened when workers in Finnish firms got a right to worker voice on the corporate board. 👇
July 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Very excited that our paper (joint with Jarkko Harju and @schoefer.bsky.social) on "Voice at Work" is published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. We study what happened when workers in Finnish firms got a right to worker voice on the corporate board. 👇
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🧨 New draft dropped:🧨
"Cash Transfers,
Mental Health and Agency:
Evidence from an RCT in Germany"
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...
Companion paper to our paper on basic income and labor supply.
Corresponding author Freddie Schwerter (@freddieschwerter.bsky.social).
#basicincome #UBI
"Cash Transfers,
Mental Health and Agency:
Evidence from an RCT in Germany"
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...
Companion paper to our paper on basic income and labor supply.
Corresponding author Freddie Schwerter (@freddieschwerter.bsky.social).
#basicincome #UBI
July 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🧨 New draft dropped:🧨
"Cash Transfers,
Mental Health and Agency:
Evidence from an RCT in Germany"
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...
Companion paper to our paper on basic income and labor supply.
Corresponding author Freddie Schwerter (@freddieschwerter.bsky.social).
#basicincome #UBI
"Cash Transfers,
Mental Health and Agency:
Evidence from an RCT in Germany"
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...
Companion paper to our paper on basic income and labor supply.
Corresponding author Freddie Schwerter (@freddieschwerter.bsky.social).
#basicincome #UBI
Yes, continuing unemployment claims are up, but the US labor market remains remarkably stable across most indicators in 2025. Context matters: this is a slight softening, not a crisis. My analysis in @Forbes.com explains the full picture www.forbes.com/sites/zachar... #EconSky
More Americans Staying On Unemployment Amid ‘Slight Slowdown’ Of Economy
Losses in service jobs sparked the first negative job growth in two years.
www.forbes.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Yes, continuing unemployment claims are up, but the US labor market remains remarkably stable across most indicators in 2025. Context matters: this is a slight softening, not a crisis. My analysis in @Forbes.com explains the full picture www.forbes.com/sites/zachar... #EconSky
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Huge sleeper issue is how states will (or won’t) be able to absorb huge SNAP cuts in BBB. www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...
Gov. Josh Shapiro said he’s not sure SNAP will be able to exist in Pa. under President Trump’s megabill
Pennsylvania won't be able afford the cost of federal food assistance if Trump's tax and spending plan becomes reality, Shapiro said.
www.inquirer.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Huge sleeper issue is how states will (or won’t) be able to absorb huge SNAP cuts in BBB. www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...
Reposted by Ioana Marinescu
The report looks strong. The Powell attack was disconnected.
+147K jobs gained last month (mid-May to mid-June).
+16K jobs in revisions of prior 2 months
The big picture
+147K jobs gained last month (mid-May to mid-June).
+16K jobs in revisions of prior 2 months
The big picture
July 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The report looks strong. The Powell attack was disconnected.
+147K jobs gained last month (mid-May to mid-June).
+16K jobs in revisions of prior 2 months
The big picture
+147K jobs gained last month (mid-May to mid-June).
+16K jobs in revisions of prior 2 months
The big picture
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EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn.
BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS.
#EconSky
BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS.
#EconSky
June 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn.
BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS.
#EconSky
BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS.
#EconSky
So excited to witness the opening of a new pedestrian bridge in Philadelphia!!! This was a special preview event and the official opening is on Saturday: schuylkillbanks.org. #Philly proud!
May 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
So excited to witness the opening of a new pedestrian bridge in Philadelphia!!! This was a special preview event and the official opening is on Saturday: schuylkillbanks.org. #Philly proud!
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JM update: it's been a while that I should have announced here that this summer I'll join @upenn.edu
as a postdoc working with @imarinescu.bsky.social . I really look forward to it and I am immensely grateful to my letter writers for support on this #econjobmarket !
as a postdoc working with @imarinescu.bsky.social . I really look forward to it and I am immensely grateful to my letter writers for support on this #econjobmarket !
May 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
JM update: it's been a while that I should have announced here that this summer I'll join @upenn.edu
as a postdoc working with @imarinescu.bsky.social . I really look forward to it and I am immensely grateful to my letter writers for support on this #econjobmarket !
as a postdoc working with @imarinescu.bsky.social . I really look forward to it and I am immensely grateful to my letter writers for support on this #econjobmarket !
I’m excited to join @Anthropic.com’s Advisory Council, to provide guidance on the economic implications of #AI. I’m thrilled to be part of this illustrious group, including @johnjhorton.bsky.social @akorinek.bsky.social @johnlist.bsky.social. #EconSky www.anthropic.com/news/introdu...
Introducing the Anthropic Economic Advisory Council
Today, we’re announcing the formation of the Anthropic Economic Advisory Council, a group of distinguished economists who will provide Anthropic with expert guidance on the economic implications of AI...
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April 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I’m excited to join @Anthropic.com’s Advisory Council, to provide guidance on the economic implications of #AI. I’m thrilled to be part of this illustrious group, including @johnjhorton.bsky.social @akorinek.bsky.social @johnlist.bsky.social. #EconSky www.anthropic.com/news/introdu...
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Breaking News: Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising technology, a federal judge ruled.
Google Is a Monopolist in Online Advertising Tech, Judge Says
The ruling was the second time in a year that a federal court had found that Google had acted illegally to maintain its dominance.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Breaking News: Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising technology, a federal judge ruled.
Reposted by Ioana Marinescu
Registration for the @cleforum.bsky.social conference (April 25 & 26 in Toronto, in partnership with @stone-centre-ubc.bsky.social ) open until April 15. Join us for a keynote lecture by @imarinescu.bsky.social and papers on wide variety of labour topics: stonecentre.economics.ubc.ca/call-for-pap...
April 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Registration for the @cleforum.bsky.social conference (April 25 & 26 in Toronto, in partnership with @stone-centre-ubc.bsky.social ) open until April 15. Join us for a keynote lecture by @imarinescu.bsky.social and papers on wide variety of labour topics: stonecentre.economics.ubc.ca/call-for-pap...
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If you do this since 1929, it's even worse.
Today was worse than 99.6% of trading days since 1929. It was the 95th worst day of all time (out of >24,000 days), and the 35th worst day since 1945.
Today was worse than 99.6% of trading days since 1929. It was the 95th worst day of all time (out of >24,000 days), and the 35th worst day since 1945.
April 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
If you do this since 1929, it's even worse.
Today was worse than 99.6% of trading days since 1929. It was the 95th worst day of all time (out of >24,000 days), and the 35th worst day since 1945.
Today was worse than 99.6% of trading days since 1929. It was the 95th worst day of all time (out of >24,000 days), and the 35th worst day since 1945.
Reposted by Ioana Marinescu
The Stone Centre is proud to be a sponsor of the upcoming @cleforum.bsky.social conference, featuring presentations from @imarinescu.bsky.social, Stone Centre Director, Thomas Lemieux, and many others. Registration is now open: stonecentre.economics.ubc.ca/news-and-eve...
March 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The Stone Centre is proud to be a sponsor of the upcoming @cleforum.bsky.social conference, featuring presentations from @imarinescu.bsky.social, Stone Centre Director, Thomas Lemieux, and many others. Registration is now open: stonecentre.economics.ubc.ca/news-and-eve...
Reminder: you have until March 31 to apply for this #AI funding opportunity, Looking forward to reading your proposals! #EconSky 👇
🚀 Funding opportunity (now with correct link)! 🚀
What does #AI mean for the labor market? 🤔
I'm excited to partner with Schmidt Sciences to offer up to $200,000 in funding for early-career researchers!
🗓️ Deadline March 31 2025 🗓️
🙏 Share! #EconSky
🔗 Learn more & apply: schmidtsciences.org/ai-at-work/
What does #AI mean for the labor market? 🤔
I'm excited to partner with Schmidt Sciences to offer up to $200,000 in funding for early-career researchers!
🗓️ Deadline March 31 2025 🗓️
🙏 Share! #EconSky
🔗 Learn more & apply: schmidtsciences.org/ai-at-work/
March 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Are the 2020s the disaster decade? David Brooks thinks every historical time has its own disaster, except maybe the 1990s. I grew up in the 1990s, so maybe that’s one more way I’ve been very lucky. What do you think? 1990s yay or nay? 🤔
March 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Are the 2020s the disaster decade? David Brooks thinks every historical time has its own disaster, except maybe the 1990s. I grew up in the 1990s, so maybe that’s one more way I’ve been very lucky. What do you think? 1990s yay or nay? 🤔