PeydrÓ Alcalde, JosÉ Luis

Biography

Peydró is ICREA Research Professor at UPF, Professor of Economcis at UPF, Barcelona GSE Research Professor, CREI Research Associate, CEPR Research Fellow, member of the advisory scientific committee at the European Systemic Risk Board, research advisor of the Bank of Spain, IESE research fellow and consultant in several central banks and international organizations. He has been a visiting scholar at Banque de France, Becker Friedman Institute at Chicago University, MIT Sloan, Bank of Spain, IMF, De Nederlandsche Bank and the World Bank. At present, he is recipient of an ERC Consolidator grant, a senior Houblon-Norman Fellowship from the Bank of England and two MINECO grants. He serves as an associate editor for the Review of Finance and the Spanish Review of Financial Economics, and as a panel member of Economic Policy. He has presented his research in the main universities and central banks in the world.

Research Interest

Specializing in Finance and Macroeconomics, mainly on systemic risk, financial crises, endogenous risk, central bank policies, monetary and prudential policy, financial globalization, financial contagion, financial innovation, macroeconomics and credit markets, capital and liquidity. He is also working on the effects of financial distress on households' welfare. He has recently coauthorized a book on Systemic Risk, Crises and Macroprudential Policy at MIT Press.