Montserrat Lopez Jerez

Montserrat Lopez Jerez is a Visiting Research Fellow affiliated with the Department of Economic History at Lund University. Her work bridges development economics and economic history, focusing on colonial legacies, institutional impacts, and economic transformation in the Global South, particularly in Asia.

Her research interests include:

• Development economics and economic history
• Colonialism’s long-term institutional effects
• Factor endowments and extraction
• Rural transformation in Vietnam and Korea
• Equality of opportunities in early economic development

Her recent contributions include peer-reviewed articles on colonial fiscal states in Asia and involutionary processes in rural economies. She has been cited in 10+ publications and has 43 Mendeley readers for her work on Vietnam's growth patterns.

Key scientific awards:

• Asian Exceptionalism Prize (2017)
• Wallander Stipendium (2016)
• Board Representative Appointment (2016)

She supervises PhD-level research, including the active project Asian Exceptionalism? – The Institutional Impact of Japanese Colonial Extraction (2017–present), and participates in conferences like the World Economic History Congress and Asian Historical Economics Conference.