Marta Portela Maseda

Marta Portela Maseda is a Professor in the Department of Financial Economy and Accounting at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She is affiliated with the Faculty of Administration and Business Management and the Interuniversity Research Center in Economics and Business for Society (ECOBAS). Her research focuses on financial valuation, econometrics, and regional economic development, combining both theoretical and applied perspectives.

She earned her PhD from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2011 with the thesis Social capital and development in Europe, supervised by Dra. Isabel Neira Gómez. Her academic work emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches bridging finance, sociology, and public policy.

Her research interests include exploring how social capital influences entrepreneurship and economic growth, analyzing cultural contexts in business expansion, investigating regional disparities in financial well-being, and assessing the role of trust and cooperation in societal development. She also examines gender differences in engineering professions and labor market integration.

Recent publications highlight trends in multilevel analysis methodologies, pandemic impacts on SMEs, and cross-regional comparisons of economic and well-being indicators. She has contributed to frameworks for evaluating internationalization strategies of Galician enterprises and Latin American development aid effectiveness.

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She collaborates with the VALFINAP research group focusing on applied financial valuation and the Economet group studying European and international economic development through econometric methods. Her work often integrates policy recommendations with empirical research findings.