A native of Barcelona, after obtaining his bachelor's degree from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, received a doctorate from UC Berkeley under the supervision of Gérard Debreu, and moved to the University of Pennsylvania as an Assistant Professor. In 1987 moved back to Spain and headed for ten years the Institute for Economic Analysis in the decade of the 1990s. In 2001 he moved to the business school INSEAD in Paris and in 2005 went back to Barcelona with a research professorship at ICREA-UPF. He also taught at UAB and held visiting positions at Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley and New York University. He served as Director of the Industrial Organization Program of the in 1991-1997. He was editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization in 1993-1997, editor-in-chief of the European Economic Review and of the Journal of the European Economic Association. Currently he is editor of the ' and co-editor of the '. Since 2014 he is member of the Identification Committee of the European Research Council. He has participated extensively in the policy debate in Europe with contributions to a substantial number of reports published by CEPR and networks as well as columns in The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Spanish press. From 2011 to 2014 he was Special Advisor to the Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Competition, J. Almunia.
Research contributions
Vives' research concentrates on microeconomics and ranges from industrial organization, information economics, and game theory to banking and finance. Specifically, his most recent contributions have been related to topics such as dynamic rivalry, innovation and competition, and competition policy among others. His contributions started with seminal research in oligopoly theory and the study of price and quantity competition providing canonical models and results on price formation and competitiveness. The research extended to the interaction between private information and strategic behavior with the early study of information sharing among firms. This research has served as a basis for extensive theoretical and applied developments in industrial organization and international trade among other fields, as well as having implications for competition policy. A path breaking contribution was the pioneer application of lattice-theoretic methods to analyze games of strategic complementarities, and in general complementarities, in economics. His contribution opened the gates to numerous applications in a wide range of fields including macroeconomics and finance. Further work has studied incomplete information economies and the mechanisms of information aggregation and transmission in markets and learning by traders formalizing the ideas of Hayek. This work provides a bridge between the rational expectations and the herding literatures. and has been applied to study the dynamics of asset prices. Finally, Vives has contributed to the study of competition and regulation in banking and of financial stability with research that has policy implications for the financial crisis and European financial integration.
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Awards and honors
Vives is a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1992, of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2002, of the European Economic Association since 2004, of the :es:Asociación Española de Economía|Spanish Economic Association since 2010, of the Institute of Catalan Studies since 2011 and of the Academia Europaea since 2012. He has received several research prizes in Spain, among them the Premio Rey Jaime I de Economía in 2013. In 2008 he was awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant, and in 2015 a Wim Duisenberg Fellowship from the European Central Bank. President of for the period 2016-2018.
