Xavier Freixas

Scientific Director, MSc in Finance; Faculty member, MSc in Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets; MSc in Competition and Market Regulation; GPEFM

Xavier Freixas is a full professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and a research fellow at CEPR. He is former president of the European Finance Association and chairman of Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) Risk Based Regulation Program. He has previously been Deutsche Bank Professor of European Financial Integration at Oxford University, Houblon Norman Senior Fellow of the Bank of England and joint executive director of Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA), and a professor at Montpellier and Toulouse Universities.

He has been a consultant for the European Investment Bank, the New York Fed, the European Central Bank, the World Bank, the Interamerican Development Bank, and MEDD.

Professor Freixas is associate editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation and the Journal of Financial Services Research.

Payment risk, contagion, the lender of last resort, banking

- "The role of interbank markets in monetary policy: A model with rationing" (with J. Jorge) Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 40(6): 115-1176, 2008.

- "Corporate Finance and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism" (with P. Bolton) Review of Financial Studies, 19: 829-870, 2006.

- "Microeconomics of Banking", MIT Press, 1997. (with J-Ch. Rochet)