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Xavier Vives is Professor of Economics and Finance and The Portuguese Council Chaired Professor of European Studies at INSEAD and Senior Researcher at ICREA-UPF. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley. He is a member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy at the European Commission and of the European Economic Advisory Group at CESifo; Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research, where he served as Director of the Industrial Organization Program in 1991-1997, and Director of the Industrial and Financial Program of the Fundación BBVA. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Fundació Empresa i Ciència of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was Director of the Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC) in 1991-2001 and has taught at Harvard University, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania, and New York University. His fields of interest are industrial organization, the economics of information, and banking and financial economics. He has published in the main international journals and is the author of Oligopoly Pricing: Old Ideas and New Tools (MIT Press, 1999), editor of Corporate Governance: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives (CUP, 2000), and co-editor of Capital Markets and Financial Intermediation (CUP, 1993). He has been editor of main international academic journals and currently he is the Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association, and Co-editor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. His current research interests include dynamic oligopoly pricing, banking crisis, regulation of insider trading, competition policy, and the location of headquarters. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1992 and has received several research prizes ("Premio Juan Carlos I" in 1988; the "Societat Catalana de Economia" Prize in 1996; and the “Narcís Monturiol” Medal in 2002). Dr. Vives has been a consultant on competition and regulation issues for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the European Commission as well as for major international corporations. He has also taught specialized courses for Central Banks.