Rate My Professor Susana Peralta

Susana Peralta is an Associate Professor with Agregação at the Nova School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in the Business & Economics faculty, a position she has held since joining the institution in 2004. She earned her PhD in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain in 2004, a Master of Arts in Economics from the same university in 1999, and a BSc in Economics from Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics in 1997. Peralta's research centers on Public Economics and Political Economy, with particular emphasis on taxation, fiscal federalism, multi-layered governments, tax competition, decentralization, and political accountability. She has served as academic director for the MSc in Economics, Research Master, and PhD in Economics, and is currently on the managing committee of the PhD in Economics and Finance. Her teaching portfolio includes Public Finance, Microeconomics, Ethics and Economic Policy, Poverty: Concepts and Challenges, and economics courses in executive education programs.

As Principal Investigator, Peralta has obtained funding from the Portuguese Science Foundation for multiple research projects. She is a Research Associate at CEPR and CORE-UCL, and contributes scientifically to the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos in economics. A regular op-ed writer for Público, she has published extensively in top journals such as the European Economic Review, International Tax and Public Finance, Electoral Studies, Journal of Regional Science, Public Choice, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of International Economics, and Regional Science and Urban Economics. Key publications include “Cousins from overseas: How the existing workforce adapts to a massive forced return migration shock” (European Economic Review, 2025), “The determinants of political selection: A citizen-candidate model with valence signaling and incumbency advantage” (International Tax and Public Finance, 2025), “Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment” (Electoral Studies, 2023), “Regional and sectorial impacts of the Covid-19 crisis: Evidence from electronic payments” (Journal of Regional Science, 2022), and the chapter “The economy” in Portugal in the 21st Century (2024).