PHD: Economia della produzione e dello sviluppo, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria.

Marta Marson research is mostly oriented towards empirical works on development topics, including water access, China presence in Africa, economic freedom, trade and food security.

More recent works include modelling of georeferenced data about FDI, deforestation, infrastructure.

Bortolotti, L., Marson*, M., & Saccone, D. (2025). A crooked ‘smile curve’? Reassessing the relationship between foreign direct investment and development. Spatial Economic Analysis, 1-21.

Marson, M., & Saccone*, D. (2025). The effect of food price upsurges on income inequality: The richest win and the poorest lose. Food Policy, 131, 102830.

Bortolotti, L., Marson*, M., & Saccone, D. (2024). Food and the forest: A spatial analysis on the nexus between foreign direct investment and deforestation. Forest Policy and Economics, 169, 103353.

Marson*, M., Saccone, D., & Vallino, E. (2022). Total trade, cereals trade and undernourishment: new empirical evidence for developing countries. Review of World Economics, 1-34. DOI10.1007/s10290-022-00468-z

Marson*, M. & Savin I (2015) “Ensuring sustainable access to drinking water in Sub Saharan Africa: Conflict between financial and social objectives”, World Development Vol 76, pp 26-39, 2015.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.06.002