Xavier Freixas is an Emeritus Research Professor of the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) and an Emeritus Professor of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), where he was a member of the Department of Economics and Business, one of BSE’s academic units. He is also a Research Fellow at CEPR.

His main research contributions concern the analysis of banking in an asymmetric information framework, and more specifically the issues of relationship banking, systemic risk, contagion and the lender of last resort.

His work has been published in the main journals in the field, such as Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy. Together with Jean-Charles Rochet, he is the author of the book Microeconomics of Banking (MIT Press, 1997).

Professor Freixas has been President of the European Finance Association, Chairman of the Risk Based Regulation Program of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP), Deutsche Bank Professor of European Financial Integration at Oxford University, Houblon-Norman Senior Fellow of the Bank of England, and Professor at Montpellier and Toulouse Universities.

He has been a consultant for the European Investment Bank (EIB), the New York Federal Reserve Bank, the European Central Bank (ECB), the World Bank, and the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB).

Xavier Freixas holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Toulouse.