MARIO MARINIELLO

Digital Economics - Bridging Research, Practice And Policy

Mario Mariniello is the author of "Digital Economic Policy", OUP 2022. Mario is currently a member of the Future of Work unit at the European Commission DG-Employment and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Natolin, Poland, and the University of Namur, Belgium. He has also been Senior Fellow at the Brussels-based independent economic think-tank Bruegel and Digital Adviser at the European Political Strategy Centre, former European Commission President Juncker’s in-house think-tank.

DIGITAL ECONOMIC POLICY

The Economics of Digital Markets from a European Union Perspective

Digital Economic Policy is a first-of-its-kind textbook covering all policy dimensions of the digital economy at the European level. It is a journey during which students may learn about telecom markets, the data economy, the digitization of the public sector, cybersecurity, the platform economy, liability for online content, e-commerce, the sharing economy, the impact of technology on labour markets, digital inequality, disinformation, and artificial intelligence.

The book's primary goal is to prepare students to give informed and economically sound advice to an EU policymaker for digital affairs.

Outreach

Blogs

A selection of Mario's opinion pieces and blogs on the digital economy, such as: online platform work, the Data Governance Act, competition and regulation in the EU Single Market

Media

A collection of podcasts and videos by Mario Mariniello on topics such as digital skills, telework, artificial intelligence, Chinese antitrust, the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act 

Where I speak

Teaching & Research

Teaching

Since 2016, Mario has taught a course on the Digital Economy to Master students at the College of Europe in Natolin, Poland. More recently, Mario has been giving a similar course at the University of Namur, Belgium.

The course covers aspects of European digital integration from an economist's perspective; it provides students with an analytical framework to understand and discuss the European Commission’s digital agenda. 

Research

Mario has been publishing extensively, including in leading academic journals, on various issues related to the European economy.  For example, he wrote about: the application of competition law to intellectual property rights and standard-setting procedures; the optimal design of competition policy authorities; the use of state aid in the single market; the regulation of public procurement markets; the use of artificial intelligence in the workplace; and the economic implications of the increased use of telework as induced by the Covid-19 pandemic