Xavier
Vives
Professor Emeritus of Economics and
Financial Management
鈥⒙燩h.D. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley
鈥⒙燚octor en Ciencias Econ贸micas y Empresariales, Universidad Aut贸noma de Barcelona
鈥⒙燤.A. Economics, University of California
鈥⒙燣icenciado en Ciencias Econ贸micas, Universidad Aut贸noma de Barcelona
Xavier Vives is Professor Emeritus in the Economics and Financial Management Departments, and he was Abertis Chair of Regulation, Competition and Public Policy聽and academic director of the Public-Private Research Center. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley.
He is research fellow of CESifo, and was member of its European Economic Advisory Group from 2001 to 2011. Research fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research, where he served as Director of the Industrial Organization Program in 1991-1997. Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1992 and elected member of its Council in 2006-2008; of the European Economic Association since 2004 and elected member of its Council 1991-1995; and research associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He was member of the Advisory Board for Economic Recovery of the Government of Catalonia (2011-2015), and from 2011 to 2014 he was special advisor to the Vicepresident of the European Commission and Commissioner for Competition, Mr Joaqu铆n Almunia. President of the Spanish Economic Association in 2008, Duisenberg Fellow of the European Central Bank in 2015, and president of EARIE for 2016-18 and current vicepresident of EFA.
From 2001 to 2005 he was Professor of Economics and Finance and The Portuguese Council Chaired Professor of European Studies at INSEAD, and from 1991 to 2001, Director of the Institut d’An脿lisi Econ貌mica, CSIC. He has taught at Harvard University, Universitat Aut貌noma de Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania, and New York University (King Juan Carlos I Chair). From 2003 until 2013, he was member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy at the European Commission.
His fields of interest are industrial organization and regulation, the economics of information, and banking and financial economics. He has published in the main international journals and is the author of 鈥淐ompetition and Stability in Banking: the Role of Regulation and Competition Policy鈥� (Princeton University Press, 2016), 鈥淚nformation and Learning in Markets: the Impact of Market Microstructure鈥� (Princeton University Press, 2008), 鈥淥ligopoly Pricing: Old Ideas and New Tools鈥� (MIT Press, 1999), editor of 鈥淐ompetition Policy in Europe: Fifty Years on from the Treaty of Rome鈥� (OUP, 2009), 鈥淐orporate Governance: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives鈥� (CUP, 2000), and co-editor of 鈥淐apital Markets and Financial Intermediation鈥� (CUP, 1993). He has been editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization in 1993-1997, of the Journal of the European Economic Association in 1998-2008 and of the Journal of Economic Theory in 2013-2020. Currently, he is co-editor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy.
His current research interests include dynamic rivalry, innovation and competition, banking crisis and regulation, information and financial markets, and competition policy.
He has received several research awards: King Juan Carlos I Prize in 1988; the Catalan Society for Economics Prize in 1996; the Narc铆s Monturiol Medal in 2002; the Catalonia Economics Prize in 2005; an European Research Council Advanced Grant in 2008 and in 2017, the Jaime I Prize in Economics in 2013 and the Premio Nacional de Investigaci贸n Pascual Madoz 2020. He is member of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans since 2011 and of the Academia Europaea since 2012.
Professor Vives has been an advisor and consultant on competition, regulation, and corporate governance issues for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the European Commission, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as well as for major international corporations. He has been a member of the board of CaixaBank from 2008 to May 2020. He is a columnist for La Vanguardia and Project Syndicate, and occasionally for 贰虫辫补苍蝉颈贸苍, El Pa铆s, VoxEU, Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Areas of interest.
鈥⒙燚ynamic games of complementarities
鈥⒙營nnovation and competition
鈥⒙燘anking crisis and regulation
鈥⒙營nformation and financial markets
鈥⒙燙ompetition policy
鈥⒙燭he location of headquarters