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    María Martínez
    María Martínez
    Principal Economist
    Madrid

    Maria Martinez obtained a Master’s in Quantitative Finance at the Escuela de Finanzas Aplicadas (AFI) and a Master´s in Economics and Finance at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She obtained her degree in Economics at Universidad de Oviedo.


    She joined BBVA Research in 2009, and she is currently Principal Economist in the Financial Global Markets Unit. Prior to this position she was a Research Assistant in the Financial Stability Department at the Bank of Spain and an analyst and consultant in the Transfer Pricing Department in KPMG.

    Latest publications

    March 21, 2022

    Global | The Fed and the ECB, on course for normalization at different speeds
    The main central banks have brought forward the withdrawal of their monetary stimulus measures (rolled out during the COVID-19 crisis) to anchor inflationary expectations, and are now inclined toward raising interest rates earlier, and possibly even faster, than expected.

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    March 10, 2022

    Europe | Being predictable during uncertain times
    Overall, the relatively modest downward revision in growth projections and the delinking of the tapering from the rate rise scenarios allows the ECB to convey a hawkish message while freeing itself to make the decision on rates more data dependent

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    February 3, 2022

    Europe | Readying to act but not overreact on inflation risks
    The ECB left all its key monetary policy settings unchanged today, in turn confirming the decisions taken at the previous meeting, but clearly sounded more concerned about rising upside risks to the inflation outlook. Mrs. Lagarde postponed any eventual reaction to these risks to be addressed during the March meeting

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