Finance Program

    Prof. Javier Gil-Bazo – Program Director

Javier Gil-Bazo holds a doctorate in Economics from the University of the Basque Country. He is currently an Associate Professor of Finance at University Pompeu Fabra. He has previously held an Associate Professor position and an Assistant Professor position at University Carlos III. He has also undertaken research at Tilburg University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

His research results have been published in academic journals such as Journal of Finance, Quantitative Finance, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of Financial Econometrics, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. His research has been awarded with the Best Paper Award at the European Conference of the Financial Management Association, the Honorable Mention of the Moskowitz Prize for outstanding research in socially responsible investing and the Best Derivatives Paper Award at the Annual Meeting of the Spanish Finance Association.

Prof. Gil-Bazo has served as referee for Journal of Banking and Finance, Management Science, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Quantitative Finance, European Journal of Finance, Computational Intelligence, Applied Intelligence, Spanish Economic Review, Moneda y Crédito, Revista de Economía Financiera, and Revista de Economía Aplicada. He has also belonged to the program committee of the Annual Meeting of the European Finance Association, the European Conference of the Financial Management Association and the Annual Meeting of the Spanish Finance Association.

email:  javier.gil-bazo@upf.edu

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    Prof. Xavier Freixas – Scientific Director

Xavier Freixas (PhD, Toulouse 1978) is Dean of the Undergraduate School of Economics and Business Administration, Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Research Fellow at CEPR. He is Chairman of the Risk Based Regulation Program of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) and former president of the European Finance Association. 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 at the Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA), and Professor at Montpellier and at 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, MEFF and the European Investment Bank.

He is Associate Editor of Journal of Financial Intermediation, Review of Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance and Journal of Financial Services Research. He has published a number of papers in the main economic and finance journals (Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, …). His is renowned for his research work in the banking area as well as for his book Microeconomics of Banking (MIT Press, 1997), co-authored with Jean-Charles Rochet.

email: xavier.freixas@upf.edu

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     Master in Finance - Advisory Committee

The Advisory Committee of the Finance program consists of four members including the Program Director and the Scientific Director, all of whom teach courses in the program.

Francisco Peñaranda is Assistant Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. He has a PhD in Economics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and CEMFI. His research has focused on financial econometrics, asset pricing, and portfolio management. His paper "Portfolio Choice Beyond the Traditional Approach" is forthcoming in the Revista de Economía Financiera.

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Ander Perez is Assistant Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics. His research has focused on macroeconomics, monetary economics, and corporate finance. His paper "Financial Innovation, Macroeconomic Stability, and Systemic Crises" (with P. Gai, S. Kapadia, and S. Millard) is forthcoming in the Economic Journal.

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