Monica Carmona Arango

Monica Carmona Arango is a Professor in the Department of Business Management and Marketing at the Faculty of Business and Tourism, University of Huelva. She is affiliated with the Huelva Scientific and Technological Center and contributes to the Spanish Entrepreneurship Research Group (SEJ487) and the Virtual Dimension of Business (SEJ408).

Education:

• PhD in Economics from the University of Huelva (2003), with a thesis on Green Marketing supervised by Dr. Francisco Javier Leal López and Dr. José Angel Martín Leal.

Her research focuses on entrepreneurship, self-employment, and their macroeconomic implications. She has extensively studied the interplay between business cycles and self-employment, analyzing asymmetries across OECD countries. Additionally, her work explores energy economics, including market persistence, causality, and the energy-growth nexus, while addressing regional tourism convergence and eco-label dynamics.

Monica's publications span diverse fields such as entrepreneurship, labor economics, energy economics, and tourism. Her recent work emphasizes high-impact entrepreneurship strategies, market efficiency in energy pricing, and the role of intellectual property in entrepreneurship. She has contributed to academic journals and applied econometric models to regional innovation and economic trends.

She is associated with the Huelva Scientific and Technological Center and collaborates on interdisciplinary projects. For contact, her institutional email is monica@dem.uhu.es.