Earned Degrees:

• Ph.D. (Economics, Gerard Debreu supervisor), University of California, Berkeley, 1983.

• M.A. (Economics), University of California, Berkeley, 1982.

• Licenciado (Economics), Universitat Autònoma, Barcelona, 1978.

Present Positions:

• Professor of Economics and Finance, IESE Business School

• Academic director of the Public-Private Sector research center

• Director of the Abertis Chair of Regulation, Competition and Public Policy

• Adjunct Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

• Research Professor of the Spanish High Research Council, CSIC (on leave)

Past Academic Positions:

• Research Professor, ICREA-UPF, 2004-2005.

• Professor of Economics and Finance, and The Portuguese Council Chaired Professor in European Studies, INSEAD, 2001-2005.

• Director, Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica, CSIC, 1991-2001, Vice-Director 1990-1991, and Research  Professor since 1990 (on leave).

• King Juan Carlos I of Spain Chair of Spanish Culture and Civilization, New York University, Fall 1999.

• Visiting Professor, Harvard University, 1997-1998

• Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania, November 1994.

• Visiting Scholar, MIT, November 1991; Boston University, November 1992; New York University,  November 1995; University of Bonn, January 1997.

• Senior Researcher, Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA), October 1988-August 1989.

• Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica, CSIC, 1987-1990, Research Professor (contract)

• Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1983 - 1986.

• Visiting Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

• Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, August 1984 - December 1984.

• Research Assistant, University of California, Berkeley, July 1982.

• Reader/Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Mathematical Economics, University of California, Berkeley, March 1982 – June 1982

• Assistant Professor, Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, October 1978 – September 1979.

• Cooperator, Centro de Estudios de Planificación of Barcelona, July 1975 – January 1976.

Honors:

• Research Associate, ECGI, 2009-

• European Research Council Advanced Grant, 2009-2013.

• President of the Spanish Economic Association, 2008.

• Research Fellow, CESifo, 2006-

• Vice President of the Asociación Española para la Economía Energética (AEEE), 2006-

• Elected member of the Council of the Econometric Society, 2006-2008

• Premi Catalunya d’Economia, 2005.

• Fellow of the European Economic Association, 2004.

• Narcís Monturiol Medal of the Generalitat de Catalunya, 2002.

• Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2002-

• Premi Societat Catalana d'Economia, 1996.

• Fellow of the Econometric Society, 1992.

• Elected member of the Council of the European Economic Association, 1991-1995.

• King Juan Carlos I Prize for research in social science, Spain, 1988.

• Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, 1988-

• Premio Extraordinario de Licenciatura, Universitat Autònoma, Barcelona, 1978.

Editorial Services:

• Co-editor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (1992-).

• Associate editor of the Recherches Economiques de Louvain (1991-).

• Member of the editorial board of Economía Industrial (1987-).

• Member of the editorial board of Nota d’Economia (2004-).

• Member of the Editorial Board for Finance at ECGI (European Corporate Governance Institute), 2006-

• Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association (July 2003-December 2008).

• Editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization, (1993-1997) and the European    Economic Review (1998-2002).

• Associate editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization (1988-1992), the Journal of Industrial Economics (1991-1992), the Journal of the Japanese and International Economies (1993-1995), the Journal of Financial Markets (1997-2000), the Rand Journal of Economics (1995-2002) and  the European Economic Review (1991-1996). Member of the editorial board of Investigaciones Económicas (1988- 1991), Revista Española de Economía (1989-1994), the Journal of Industrial Economics (1992-1998), and Economic Policy (1993-1994).

• Referee for American Economic Review, Econometrica, Economic Behavior and Organization, Economic  Journal, Games and Economic Behavior, Information Economics and Policy, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economics (Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie), Journal of Economics and Business, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of the Japanese and International Economics, Management Science, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Mathematical Social Sciences, Rand Journal of Economics, and Review of Economic Studies.

Research Direction:

• Member of the steering committee of the European Symposium in Economic Theory (ESSET) at Gerzensee, 1992-

• Member of the Board of Governors of Economic Policy, 2000-.

• Member of the Steering Committee of the Association for Competition Economics, 2003-2006.

• Program Director, Applied Microeconomics / Industrial Organization, CEPR, 1991-7.

• Director of the Research Program for Banking at Fundación BBV, 1991-1996.

Scientific and Advisory Committees:

• Member of the Scientific Council of the IN3 at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2007-

• Member of the Academic Board of the Iberdrola Training Center, 2006-

• Member of the Advisory Council of the Research Department of “la Caixa”, 2005-

• Member of the Conseil Scientifique de l’Autorité des Marchés Financiers (Paris), 2004-.

• Member of Scientific Committee of the Europlace Institute of Finance, 2003-

• Member of Scientific Advisory Committee of CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2001-

• Member of the Scientific Council of ECARE (European Center for Advanced Research in Economics), Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1991.

Policy, Community and Other Professional Services:

• Member of the Commission for the I Pla Director d’Industria i Empresa, Generalitat de Catalunya, 2007-

• Member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy of DG Competition of the European Commission, 2003-

• Member of the European Economic Advisory Group at CESifo (Munich), 2001-

• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Fundació Empresa i Ciència of the Universitat Autònoma de  Barcelona, 1995-2004.

• President of the Commission on Leadership and Globalisation of the Barcelona Strategic Metropolitan  Plan, 2002.

• Member of the Commission about the Future of the University System in Catalonia, 2000-2.

• Member of the Editorial Board of Expansión and Actualidad Económica, 2000-2 and 2004-2005.

• Member of the Economic Advisory Group of DG Industry of the European Commission, 1995.

• Consultant for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the European Commission, the Spanish government, the Generalitat de Catalunya, and for other regulatory bodies as well as    for major international corporations.

• Contributor to Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal Europe, La Vanguardia, Expansión, El País and El Mundo.

Evaluation Panels:

• Member of the European Research Council evaluation panel SH1, Individuals and Organizations, 2007-2009.

• Advisor for Social Sciences to CIRIT, Generalitat de Catalunya, 2000-1.

• Member of the CIRIT Evaluation Board, Generalitat de Catalunya, 1994-1996.

• Member of the Comisión de Área de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, CSIC, 1993-1996.

• Member of the Fellowship Committee of IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research),  Milano, 1991-1994.

• Member of the ACE panel of the European Community, 1991.

• Member of the Comisión Nacional Evaluadora de la Actividad Investigadora del Profesorado    Universitario, 1990.

• Referee for: the SPES program of the European Community; the National Science Foundation, USA; the Social and Humanities Research Council of Canada; the Comisión Asesora Investigación Científica y Técnica, Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.