Xavier Freixas#
| Membership Number: | 5231 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.upf.edu/web/xavier-freixas |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5849-6668 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 Professor Emeritus
- 1990 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
- 1989 - 1991 Deputy Executive Director, FEDEA, Madrid
- 1987 - 1988 Université de Toulouse: Professor
- 1984 - 1987 Université de Montpellier, Professor
- 1980 - 1983 Associate Professor, University of Toulouse
- Fall 2002 Deutsch Bank Chair of European Financial Integration, Saïd Business School, Oxford University
- July 98 - June 99 Houblon-Norman Senior Fellow of the Bank of England, also Visiting Research Fellow, Financial Market Group, LSE
Fields of Scholarship
- Banking economics
- Regulation
- Financial markets
- Imperfect information
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Jaume I Economics and Management Award (most prestigious Spanish award)
- 2016 President of the Spanish Finance Association
- 2013 Execellency award from the Institut d’Estudis Financers (Barcelona)
- 2010 ICREA Academia award to research excellence.
- 2007 Barclays Global Investors Michael Brennan Award for best paper published in Vol. 19 of The Review of Financial Studies
- 2002 President of the European Finance Association
- 1998 P.D. Jacobs prize for the most significant paper published in the Journal of Financial Intermediation.
