Xavier Vives

MSc in Economics

Xavier Vives is Professor of Economics and Finance, Abertis Chair of Regulation, Competition and Public Policy, and academic director of the Public-Private Research Center at IESE Business School.

From 2001 to 2005 he was Professor of Economics and Finance and The Portuguese Council Chaired Professor of European Studies at INSEAD, Research Professor at ICREA-UPF, 2003-2006, and from 1991 to 2001, Director of the Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica, CSIC. He has taught at Harvard University, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania, and New York University (King Juan Carlos I Chair).

Professor Vives is a member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy at the European Commission; of the European Economic Advisory Group at CESifo; Vicepresident of the Spanish chapter of the International Association for Energy Economics; and Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research, where he served as Director of the Industrial Organization Program in 1991-1997. He is also a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1992, and Fellow of the European Economic Association since 2004.

Professor Vives has won the following research prizes: Premio Juan Carlos I (1988), the Societat Catalana de Economia Prize (1996), the Narcís Monturiol Medal (2002), and the Premi Catalunya d'Economia (2005).

His current research interests include dynamic rivalry, innovation and competition, banking crisis and regulation, information and financial markets, competition policy, and the location of headquarters.

Professor Vives has published in the main international journals and is the author of Information and Learning in Markets: the Impact of Market Microstructure (Princeton University Press, 2008), Oligopoly Pricing: Old Ideas and New Tools (MIT Press, 1999); editor of Corporate Governance: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives (CUP, 2000), and co-editor of Capital Markets and Financial Intermediation (CUP, 1993).