Maria Emilia Vazquez Rozas

Maria Emilia Vazquez Rozas is a Professor at the Department of Quantitative Economics, Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). She holds a Doctorate from USC with a thesis titled La distribución comercial en España: un estudio regional econométrico de productividad (1998), supervised by Dra. Maria del Carmen Guisán Seijas. Her research focuses on regional economic development, applied econometrics, and social economy, particularly in Galicia. She leads the research group Economet: Econometrics and Quantitative Studies of European and International Economic Development.

Key research areas include regional productivity analysis, cooperatives and labor societies, tourism economics, and the socio-economic impact of crises like the Covid-19 pandemic. Her work often employs econometric models to analyze regional disparities and policy effectiveness. Notable contributions include studies on post-pandemic digitalization in small enterprises, employment dynamics in cooperatives, and gender-based homelessness in Galicia.

Her publications span over three decades, with a focus on European regional economics, entrepreneurship, and education policy. She has authored studies on undergraduate dissertation processes and teaching methodologies, emphasizing the role of academic work in student development.