Josep Maria Arauzo Carod is Full professor at the Department of Economics of Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). He has a Bachelor Degree in Economics from Universitat de Barcelona and a PhD in Economics from URV. He has been Visiting Fellow at University of Reading (UK).

His thesis analyzed location decisions of manufacturing firms in Catalan municipalities. He has published several articles, books and book chapters about firm demography, industrial location and some spatial economic issues.