Marta Portela Maseda

Marta Portela Maseda is a Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, affiliated with the Department of Financial Economy and Accounting within the Faculty of Administration and Business Management. She holds a PhD from the same institution (2011), with a thesis titled Social capital and development in Europe, supervised by Dra. Isabel Neira Gómez. Her research focuses on social capital, entrepreneurship, economic development, and well-being, with particular attention to regional disparities and contextual effects.

She is a member of the VALFINAP research group (Applied Financial Valuation) and the Interuniversity Research Center in Economics and Business for Society (ECOBAS). Her work intersects econometrics, policy analysis, and cross-cultural studies, emphasizing Latin America and European contexts. Recent publications explore entrepreneurship internationalization, financial well-being in Spain, and the role of democracy and trust in Latin American well-being.

Marta’s research bridges macroeconomic frameworks with micro-level social dynamics, often employing multilevel modeling and quantile approaches. She has contributed to policy recommendations during economic crises and has analyzed gender participation in high-performance work practices in Spain and Portugal. No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned in the provided texts.