Professor of Econometrics at USC:
Short CV: Maria-Carmen Guisan was born in the city of A Coruña (Spain) in year 1947, where she lived for the period 1947-1965. For 1965-1970 she studied Economics (Licenciatura of 5 years, equivalent to current Graduate and Master) at te Faculty of Economics of Bilbao (Spain). She got Doctorate degree in year 1975, with a Thesis on Aggregated Production Funcions in OECD countries, inspired by the book by Denison and supervised by Professor J.Bernardo Pena Trapero (UAH, Madrid). She teached Economic Stattistics and Econometrics at the Faculty of Economics of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) since year 1970 until year 2017. She was named Full Professor of Econometrics in year 1987. Since year 2017, after age retirement for teahcers, she become Honorary Professor of Applied Economics (Econometrics).
Her complete name in Spanish is: María-Carmen Guisán-Seijas.
1) Teaching and Doctoral supervisor: She has been teacher of Econometrics since year 1970, Professor since 1987. Director of Master for the period 1997-2007. She has taught Applied Econometrics (general, advanced and specialized on econometric models of development at international, national and regional levels, having into account demand and supply.
For the period 1987-2026 she has supervised 16 Doctoral Dissertations, has been Editor of prestigious academic journals, Is one of the Top women economists, in the international comparison of the article by Guisan(2018) by the number of Dissertations supervised.
2) Editorial tasks: She has dedicated thousands of hours to editorial activities, as Editor of the 4 journals published by the Euro-American Association of Economic Development Studies, the journal RGE of the Faculty of Economics of the university of Santiago de Compostela (USC), and the Working Paper series EcoDev published by the Econometrics Team of the Faculty of Economics of the USC (Spain). Besides, she has been member of the Editorial Board and reviewer of several international journal.
AEID (Applied Econometrics and International Development) for 2001-2024
EEDI (Estudios Económicos de Desarrollo Internacional) for 2001-2010
IJAEQS (International Journal of Applied Econometrics and Quantitative Studies,2004-2009
RSES (Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies) for 2001-2024
RGE (Revista Galega de Economía/Galician Journal of Economics) 2014-2018
Publications at Rankings of Ideas-Repec: journals AEID, RSES and RGE are included at Scopus of Elsevier and other prestigious indexes. These journals and the Working paper series EcoDev were availble at Ideas.Repec for many years, reaching, very often, top positions by the number of downloads per item: EcoDev was among Top 25 working paper series (out of 5600 series of the World), until May of 2026, and the journals AEID, RSES, EEDI and IJAEQS reached also high positions.
3) Links to her research activities :
University: R&D Portal (Portal de I+D) of USC, with links to Wikipedia, Scopus, Google Scholar and other Websites. (active on May of 2026)
Ideas.Repec: lists and abstracts of articles, ,books and chapters of books. Temporarily broken links, since 4th May of 2026, due to informatic changes at the server of the USC More information on new links will be updated at Entries 54 and 65 of this Blog.
Dialnet (active links to books and articles). By the end of July 2026 we have hosted all the articles of journals AEID (600 articles), EEDI (100 articles) and RSES (465 articles) at Dialnet. The articles were previously hosted at the USC with links to bibliographical databases, until the informatic changes of the Informatic Services of our university, as explained at Entry 65 of this Blog
RG: Research Gate includes several active links to articles by M.C. Guisan, published in year 2024 and before in journals AEID, RSES and other publications. See list and links below.
SSRN. Social Science research networks includes active links to articles in English by Maria-Carmen Guisan, published in journal AEID and to IDER reports of years 2021 to 2024 published in EcoDev
At Entry 54 we include links to articles by M.C. Guisan published in journals AEID and RSES for 2021-2024.
Articles by Maria-Carmen Guisan, available at Research Gate
RSEs-24-2-14-Informes de Desarrollo de Galicia y España 2024: IDEG e IDEE
Maria-Carmen GuisanPilar Exposito
R24-2-17: English Contents of Journal RSES for 2001-2024
Farewell message from the Editor of AEID
Farewell from the Editor of RSES
Mujeres economistas investigadoras en España, Europa, América y otras áreas
geográficas, 1970-2020
ICE Revista de Economía
Articles, by Maria-Carmen Guisan available at SSRN, published in Applied Econometrics and International Development for
2001-2009
Books, Blogs and Videos (to be updated by the end of May of 2026).
