Susana Iranzo Sancho

Susana Iranzo Sancho is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Davis, and previously worked at the University of Sydney (Australia) from 2006–2009.

• Education: BA in Economics (University of Barcelona), PhD in Economics (University of California, Davis)

Her research focuses on productivity, labor economics, and international trade. Key subfields include empirical industrial organization, human capital spillovers, and migration economics. She has published in top journals like Review of Economics and Statistics and Journal of International Economics.

Recent work explores immigrant entrepreneurship trends, environmental Kuznets curves, and firm-level productivity dynamics. Her empirical studies span both developed economies (e.g., U.S. wine markets) and developing contexts (e.g., water systems in Peru).

She participates in multiple competitive R&D projects funded by institutions including:

• Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN)
• Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MEYC)
• Generalitat de Catalunya (DIUE, AGAUR)

As a member of the qure research group, she contributes to collaborative studies on economic institutions and policy design.