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Angie Suárez
Angie Suárez
BBVA Research - Senior Economist

Angie Suárez has been an economist with BBVA Research since 2010, having spent her entire career so far in the BBVA Group. At present she is the senior economist in the Spain and Portugal Unit and is in charge of part of the analysis of the Spanish regions and the Portuguese economy in BBVA Research.


She gained a degree in Economics from ESPOL (Ecuador) in 2008 and also has a master’s degree in Macroeconometrics and Finance from the Menéndez Pelayo International University (joint programme with CECO-ICEX-IEF).

Latest publications

During the 2019-2022 period, sales of goods abroad have performed similarly to those seen in the rest of Europe (5.4% vs. 8.1% recorded in Europe), while it is exports of services that have shown the greatest increase (+33.9% in Spain vs. 10.1%).
Young Spaniards emancipate at the age of 30, some three years later than the European average. One of the main reasons for this delay is related to the difficulty of accessing low-cost housing in a location that meets the preferences of recent graduates.
BBVA Research has used decision trees to show that the difference in the Spanish provinces' productive structure was one of the fundamental determining factors in explaining the initial decrease in employment caused by the national lockdown.