Georgios Petropoulos

Georgios Petropoulos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Data Sciences and Operations of the USC Marshall School of Business. He is also a Digital Fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and the Digital Economy Lab of Stanford University and a Network Affiliate at the CESifo. His research focuses on the economic implications of information technologies on innovation, market competition, and labor markets. He is studying how we should regulate big digital platforms as well as how the adoption of artificial intelligence affects market structures, labor productivity and work.

His papers have been nominated twice for the best paper award at the WISE conference. He has received two antitrust writing awards for his research work on information technologies and competition policy and a teaching award for a course on Advanced Microeconomics. He was a member of the High-Level Panel of Economic Experts of the European Commission providing his advice and guidance on how the European Union should regulate big tech platforms through the Digital Markets Act. He has also been a member of the Transatlantic Expert Group on the Future of Work addressing the disruptive impact of information technologies on the workforce and proposing concrete policy recommendations for the US and EU labor markets. He has served as an external expert at the Hellenic Competition Commission and at the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Global Innovation Index 2022.