Susana Peralta

Susana Peralta is an Associate Professor with Tenure at Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), where she has been a faculty member since 2004. Specializing in Public Economics and Political Economy with a focus on taxation and fiscal federalism, she contributes to academic discourse through publications in top journals including Journal of Public Economics and The Economic Journal. Her teaching portfolio spans Public Finance, Microeconomics, and Ethics and Economic Policy at both degree and executive levels.

Education:

• PhD in Economics, Catholic University of Louvain (2004)
• Master's in Economics, Catholic University of Louvain (1999)
• Degree in Economics, Catholic School of Business and Economics, Lisbon (1997)

Her research centers on political economy of taxation, fiscal federalism, and public finance, examining how institutional arrangements affect policy outcomes. Key contributions analyze political selection mechanisms, migration impacts on labor markets, and crisis responses in dual labor systems. Recent work leverages natural experiments and electronic payment data to study pandemic effects on regional economies.

Peralta's publication trajectory reveals consistent focus on tax competition, political economy, and fiscal decentralization, with increasing attention to migration shocks and crisis resilience since 2020. Her empirical work in European Economic Review and Journal of Regional Science demonstrates methodological versatility across theoretical modeling and real-world data analysis.

No scientific awards were explicitly documented in source materials.

She has held significant academic leadership roles including Academic Director for Master's in Economics, Master's in Research, and PhD in Economics programs. Currently serving on the PhD in Economics and Finance management committee, she mentors future economists while securing research funding as Principal Investigator from the Portuguese Science Foundation.

Affiliated with Nova SBE's Economics for Policy Knowledge Center, she bridges academic research and policy formulation, contributing evidence-based insights to Portuguese economic debates through Público newspaper columns.