Alfonso Herranz is Associate Professor at the Economic History Department of the University of Barcelona. His main fields of research include History of Transport and Infrastructure, History of Public Policies, Market Integration and Long-Run Economic Growth.
He is the Director of the UB Economics and Economic History Research Centre “Antoni de Capmany”. He is also a researcher at the Barcelona Economic Analysis Team Research Institute (BEAT), and a research fellow of the Institutions and Political Economy Research Group (UB) and the Institute “Laureano Figuerola” of Economic History and Institutions (University Carlos III of Madrid).