Freixas
Xavier Freixas
Spanish economist of banking, systemic risk, and lender-of-last-resort policy
Official Source Note
The Barcelona School of Economics identifies Freixas as Emeritus Research Professor and Emeritus Professor of Universitat Pompeu Fabra. It describes his research on banking under asymmetric information, relationship banking, systemic risk, contagion, and lender-of-last-resort policy.
Freixas is included because the legal design of banking supervision, liquidity assistance, resolution, and payment systems depends on the interbank and contagion mechanisms his research makes explicit.
Source: Barcelona School of Economics
Relevance to the Archive
Freixas provides the mechanisms needed to analyze why bank regulation cannot stop at individual solvency: interbank links, liquidity provision, contagion, and central-bank intervention create system-level legal design problems.
Representative Contributions
- Microeconomics of Banking (with Jean-Charles Rochet, 1997)
- Systemic Risk, Interbank Relations, and Liquidity Provision by the Central Bank (with Bruno M. Parigi and Jean-Charles Rochet, 2000)
- Corporate Finance and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism (with Patrick Bolton, 2006)
Works Included Here
2000
Advanced
Systemic Risk, Interbank Relations, and Liquidity Provision by the Central Bank
Xavier Freixas, Bruno M. Parigi, and Jean-Charles Rochet
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
2008
Advanced