Alfonso Herranz-Loncan is a professor at the Economic History Department of the University of Barcelona. His main fields of research include the History of Transport and Infrastructure, the 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” and also a researcher at the Barcelona Economic Analysis Team Research Institute (BEAT), the Institute “Laureano Figuerola” of Economic History and Institutions (University Carlos III of Madrid), and ICREA Academia researcher. He is also the editor of Economic History of Developing Regions and the coordinator of the Master in Institutions and Political Economy at the University of Barcelona.