Master in Finance

    Prof. Xavier Freixas – Program 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 Master in Finance consists of four members including the Program Director and the Academic Advisor, all of whom teach courses in the Master.

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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