Ilaria Natali

BIO

Ilaria Natali is a Visiting Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Before joining UC3M, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Toulouse School of Economics. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where she was affiliated with ECARES and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Innovation in Healthcare (I3h). Her research lies at the intersection of health economics, environmental economics, and industrial organization. Her current work examines the determinants of antimicrobial resistance, the effects of environmental and health policies, and incentives for pharmaceutical innovation.

Main publications

«Prescription Opioids and Economic Hardship in France», with Mathias Dewatripont, Victor Ginsburgh, Michel Goldman and Patrick Legros, European Journal of Health Economics, 2023.
«COVID-19 and the Role of Inequality in French Regional Departments», with Victor Ginsburgh and Glenn Magerman, European Journal of Health Economics, 2021.
«Social Science Contributions to the Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance», with Mathieu J. P. Poirier et al., Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2026.

Recent research

«Economic Opportunity and Opioid Regulation: the Case of Codeine in France», TSE Working Paper No. 24-1563, R&R at Health Economics.
«Invisible Threat: How Airborne Pollution Fuels Antimicrobial Resistance in the EU», TSE Working Paper No. 25-1610.
«Dynamic Investment Decisions in the Pharmaceutical Pipeline», with Pierre Dubois.
«Estimating Pull Incentives for Antibiotic Development», with Pierre Dubois and Kevin Outterson.
The Impact of Consumption of Antibiotics on AntiMicrobial Resistance (AMR): Within and Double/debiased Machine Learning Estimates (Temporary Title), with Pierre Dubois and Thierry Magnac.
Marketing Intensity and Opioid Access, with Patrick Legros.

Teaching

Principles of Economics; Mathematics for Economics I