Alessandro Iaria

Alessandro Iaria is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Bristol. Before joining Bristol, he was an Assistant Professor at CREST (ENSAE). He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Warwick in 2014. Dr. Iaria's research focuses on empirical industrial organization and the economics of science and innovation. His work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Econometrics, and Econometric Theory.

Innovation Suffers When Governments Can Alter Their Contracts

In new research, Michele Fioretti and Alessandro Iaria discuss how a landmark Norwegian court ruling shows how constitutional constraints on the government’s ability to retroactively change contracts can encourage private innovation and reshape entire industries.

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