Marta Bengoa

Marta Bengoa is a Full Professor of Economics at the Colin Powell School, City College of New York (CUNY-CCNY), where she has served since 2020. She also holds an External Professor of Economics position at the South African Research Chair in Industrial Development (SARChI) at the University of Johannesburg since 2018.

• Senior Research Fellow, CIRANO Data Lab (Montreal, 2018–present)
• Senior Research Fellow, Open Political Economy Network (London, 2017–present)
• Senior Research Fellow, International Economics Institute (University of Valencia and University Jaume I, 2014–present)

Her research focuses on international economics, trade, growth, and innovation. She has extensively studied the impact of trade agreements on FDI, the relationship between R&D and productivity, and the health consequences of China's hukou policy for migrants. Her work combines theoretical modeling with empirical analysis using regional and firm-level data.

Current research projects include analyzing R&D tax credit effectiveness in South Africa, institutional influences on migrant entrepreneurship in the U.S., trade effects of non-tariff measures in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and employment shifts related to innovation in Uruguayan manufacturing. She has secured multiple research grants including funding from the South African Research Chair program and PSC-CUNY.

Recent publications include studies on:

• 2022: Firm innovation and employment dynamics in South Africa
• 2021: Environmental impacts of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement
• 2020: Trade-investment agreement effects on Latin American FDI
• 2020: Health outcomes of China's hukou policy
• 2017: R&D productivity impacts in regional economics
• 2016: EU trade integration and home bias

Her work appears in journals such as Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Journal of African Trade, and Economic Modelling. She serves as President of the International Trade and Finance Association in the U.S. and has over 1964 Google Scholar citations (h-index 11).

Scientific awards include:

• CCNY Provost’s Outstanding Teaching Award (2015)
• Named among 200 most relevant women in economics in Spain

She has advised PhD students at the University of Johannesburg and University of Cantabria, and mentored numerous MA and undergraduate students at CCNY in topics spanning trade theory, economic development, and pandemic-related policy analysis.