María Cadaval Sampedro is lesturer on Applied Economy Department at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She is a specialist in fiscal federalims, rexional & local fianances. Leads a professorship in the Applied Economy Department at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Ejecutive co-director of the Axenda Urbana 2030 of Santiago de Compostela. Assistant director of RIFDE (Red de Investigadores en Financiación autonómica y Descentralización financiera en España. member of the GEN (Governance and Economics Research Network). Member of the Foro Económico de Galicia.

As researcher in the applied economic field, her work is cross-cutting, combines economic, social and politics aspects. The most recent magazin's publications of big impact are about topic such as the impact of the fiscal consolidation with the objective of obtaining the votes ou political factors, extreme events & the decentralization, expenses of centralization in urban areas, fiscal evaluation over wind energy or the Bono Social Eléctrico efectivity

&She is member of the IP in projects and scientific contracts of the Ministerio de Ciencia & Innovación de España (2023-2026), the Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, da Axencia Estatal de Investigación, da Xunta de Galicia or Consello de Contas.

In the area of transferens ans divulgation, takes part in different media -radio, journal, TV-
Na área de transferencia e divulgación participa en diversos medios de comunicación -radio, prensa e televisión- to promote scientific-academic activities.

His most outstanding bibliographic contributions include:

• Cadaval, M.; Herrero, A.; Lago-Peñas, S.; Martínez-Vázquez, J. (2023). "Extreme Events and the Resilience of Decentralized Governance". Regional Studies, online first.
• Cadaval, M., Vaquero, A. (2023). “Centrality and capital cost in urban areas. Policy watch for Spain”. Hacienda Pública Española, 244 (1), 57-78.
• Cadaval, M., Regueiro, R., Calvo. S. (2022). “The role of the public sector in the mitigation of fuel poverty in Spain (2008-2019). Modeling the contribution of the Bono social de Electricidad”, Energy, 258, 124717.
• Cadaval, M., Calvo, S. (2022). “The impact of soft Budget constraint of the fiscal coresponsibility of the autonomous communities in Spain. The case of extraordinary liquidity funds (2012-2019)” Review of Public Economics, 240 (1), 151-190.
• Lago-Peñas, S., Cadaval-Sampedro, M., Herrero-Alcalde, A. (2024). “Fiscal Consolidation and Voting: on the electoral cost of budgetary stability”, Fiscal Studies, online first.
• Regueiro, R., Cadaval, M. (2023). “Renewable energy taxes and environmental impacts: a critical reflection from the wind tax in Spain” Energy and Environment, 34 (5), 1722-1744.
• Vaquero-García, A., Cadaval, M., Lago-Peñas, S. (2022). “Do political factors affect fiscal consolidation? Evidence from Spanish regional governments” Sage Open, 12 (1), 1-12