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Yolanda Blasco Martel

Profesora de Historia Económica, Universitat de Barcelona

I’m Associate Professor in Economic History at University of Barcelona (UB). My research focuses on banking and financial history in Spain. I’m very interested in Banking Origins in Latin America. I have published in refereed books and journals such as Oxford University Press, Rouledtge, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, Business History, as well as in various Spanish and other academic journals (Historia Social, Revista de Historia Industrial, Atlantic Studies, Tiempo&Economía, Ayer (provided special “Financial Elites” 2023)).
I’m coeditor, member of the Editorial Board of Investigaciones de Historia Económica/ Economic History Research.
Last Awards: Vicens Vives Prize 2017 awarded by the Spanish Association of Economic History (AEHE) to the best book on Economic History published in Spain: El Banco de Barcelona 1874-1920: Decadencia y quiebra (Ed. Marcial Pons), with C. Sudrià. And Catalan Economy Price 2019, awarded by the Societat Catalana de Economia.
My research is available in: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3772-3408

Experience

  • –present
    Profesora de Historia Económica, Universitat de Barcelona

Education

  • 1996 
    Universidad de Barcelona, Historia Contemporánea

Honours

Premio Felipe Ruiz Martín 2014. Premio Vicens Vives 2017. XVI Premio Sociedad Catalana de Economía 2019.