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Economics and Finance
Spain
2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
65
Citations
26945
World Ranking
588
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Spain Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Spain Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Spain Leader Award
  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1992 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Xavier Vives is affiliated with the University of Navarra in Spain and has contributed extensively to the fields of economics, econometrics, and finance, as well as business, management, and accounting. Their research spans several subfields including economics and econometrics, finance, management science and operations research, accounting, and strategy and management.

The scientist has focused on a range of main research topics throughout their career. These include merger and competition analysis, banking stability, regulation, and efficiency, auction theory and applications, corporate finance and governance, digital platforms and economics, economic policies and impacts, and consumer market behavior and pricing.

The recent papers authored or coauthored by the scientist include:

  • Information technology and lender competition, 2024, Journal of Financial Economics
  • Costly Interpretation of Asset Prices, 2021, Management Science
  • Exchange Competition, Entry, and Welfare, 2021, Review of Financial Studies
  • Information Technology and Bank Competition, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Revisiting the Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Financial Economics
  • AEA Papers and Proceedings
  • Econometrica
  • Journal of Public Economic Theory

Collaborations have been a significant aspect of their work, with frequent coauthors including José Azar, Albert Banal-Estañol, Jo Seldeslachts, Annalisa Ferrando, and Peter McAdam.

Xavier Vives has been recognized as a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1992 and became a member of Academia Europaea in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Price and quantity competition in a differentiated duopoly

    Nirvikar Singh;Xavier Vives

  • Oligopoly Pricing: Old Ideas and New Tools

    Xavier Vives

  • Nash equilibrium with strategic complementarities

    Xavier Vives

  • COORDINATION FAILURES AND THE LENDER OF LAST RESORT: WAS BAGEHOT RIGHT AFTER ALL?

    Jean-Charles Rochet;Xavier Vives

  • Duopoly information equilibrium: Cournot and bertrand

    Xavier Vives

  • INNOVATION AND COMPETITIVE PRESSURE

    Xavier Vives

  • On the Strategic Choice of Spatial Price Policy

    Jacques-François Thisse;X. Vives

  • Imperfect competition, risk taking, and regulation in banking

    Carmen Matutes;Xavier Vives

  • Bank Runs as an Equilibrium Phenomenon

    Andrew Postlewaite;Xavier Vives

  • On the efficiency of Bertrand and Cournot equilibria with product differentation

    Xavier Vives

  • Infrastructure and education as instruments of regional policy: evidence from Spain

    Angel de la Fuente;Xavier Vives

  • Competition for Deposits, Fragility, and Insurance

    Carmen Matutes;Xavier Vives

  • Information and Learning in Markets: The Impact of Market Microstructure

    Xavier Vives

  • Complementarities and Games: New Developments

    Xavier Vives

  • STRATEGIC SUPPLY FUNCTION COMPETITION WITH PRIVATE INFORMATION

    Xavier Vives

  • Trade association disclosure rules, incentives to share information, and welfare

    Xavier Vives

  • Overlapping Ownership, R&D Spillovers, and Antitrust Policy

    Ángel L. López;Xavier Vives

  • Monotone equilibria in Bayesian games of strategic complementarities

    Timothy Van Zandt;Xavier Vives

  • Competition in the Changing World of Banking

    Xavier Vives

  • Why and where do headquarters move

    Vanessa Strauss-Kahn;Xavier Vives

  • Why market shares matter: an information-based theory

    Ramon Caminal;Xavier Vives

  • Cournot oligopoly: Duopoly information equilibrium: Cournot and Bertrand

    Unknown

  • Applied Industrial Economics: Spatial pricing schemes

    Jacques-François Thisse;Xavier Vives

Frequent Co-Authors

Giancarlo Corsetti
Giancarlo Corsetti European University Institute
Hans-Werner Sinn
Hans-Werner Sinn Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Gilles Saint-Paul
Gilles Saint-Paul Paris School of Economics
Michael P. Devereux
Michael P. Devereux University of Oxford
Lars Calmfors
Lars Calmfors Research Institute of Industrial Economics
Seppo Honkapohja
Seppo Honkapohja Aalto University
Luigi Guiso
Luigi Guiso Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Tim Jenkinson
Tim Jenkinson University of Oxford
Jean-Charles Rochet
Jean-Charles Rochet Toulouse School of Economics

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