• Associate Professor with Tenure (Prof. Titular) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Department of Economics and Business), Barcelona, since October 2011

• Affiliated Professor at Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, since October 2011
• Research Advisor at Bank of Spain, Financial Stability Department, November 2011-November 2012
• Research Fellow at IESE Public-Private Sector Research Center, since November 2011
• Visiting Scholar at International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, April 2012
• Economist at the European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main (Germany), May 2005-October 2011. On leave 
• Contact details: jose.peydro@gmail.com and jose.peydro@upf.edu  
• Link to my Curriculum Vitae; link to my Google Scholar page

Education:

• PhD in Finance, INSEAD, 2005
• Main advisor: Xavier Vives; Scholarships from INSEAD and Bank of Spain
• MSc in Finance, INSEAD, 2002
• Master in Economics, CEMFI, 1999 (Scholarship from Bank of Santander)
• B.A. in Economics, Universitat de Barcelona, 1997
• Ranked # 1 Nationwide for the Undergraduate in Economics in 1997 in Spain - National Award (Premio Nacional) given by the Government of Spain

Research Interests:

• Banking; Financial Crises; Contagion; Credit; Macroeconomics and Credit Markets; Monetary Policy; International Finance; Financial Innovation; Public Policy (Macro- & Micro-Prudential Supervision and Regulation, Central Bank Policies, Financial Liberalization, Law and Finance, the Euro)

Teaching:

• Financial Institutions Management, Master in Finance, 2011/12, Barcelona GSE - UPF
• Banking Theory, Master in Finance, 2011/12, Barcelona GSE - UPF (with Xavier Freixas)
• Empirical Banking and Financial Crises, Master in Finance, 2011/12, Barcelona GSE - UPF
• Systemic Risk and Prudential Policy, Continuing Education, May 16-19 2012, Barcelona GSE - UPF (co-director with X. Freixas. Also teaching C. Brownlees, J. García-Montalvo, N. Gennaioli and J. Ventura)

Publications:

• "Financial Regulation, Globalization and Synchronization of Economic Activity" (with Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Elias Papaioannou), forthcoming in Journal of Finance.
• "Credit Supply and Monetary Policy: Identifying the Bank Balance-Sheet Channel with Loan Applications" (with Gabriel Jiménez, Steven Ongena and Jesús Saurina), American Economic Review, August 2012.
• "Bank Risk-Taking, Securitization, Supervision, and Low Interest Rates: Evidence from the Euro Area and U.S. Lending Standards" (with Angela Maddaloni), Review of Financial Studies, 24, 2121-65, 2011.
• “Interbank Contagion at Work: Evidence from a Natural Experiment” (with Rajkamal Iyer), Review of Financial Studies, 24, 1337-77, 2011.
• "What Lies Beneath the Euro's Effect on Financial Integration? Currency Risk, Legal Harmonization, or Trade" (with Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Elias Papaioannou), Journal of International Economics, 81, 75–88, 2010. 
• “Combating Corruption in International Business Transactions” (with Marco Celentani and Juan-José Ganuza), Economica, 71, 417-448, 2004.

Working Papers:

• "Hazardous Times for Monetary Policy: What do 23 Million Loans Say About the Impact of Monetary Policy on Credit Risk-Taking?" (with Gabriel Jiménez, Steven Ongena and Jesús Saurina), revise and resubmit Econometrica.
• "The Interbank Liquidity Crunch and the Firm Credit Crunch: Evidence from the 2007-09 Crisis" (with Rajkamal Iyer, Samuel Lopes and Antoinette Schoar), revise and resubmit Review of Financial Studies.
• "Monetary Policy, Risk-Taking and Pricing: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment" (with Vasso Ioannidou and Steven Ongena), revise and resubmit American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.
•  "Trusting the Bankers: Another Look at the Credit Channel of Monetary Policy" (with Matteo Ciccarelli and Angela Maddaloni), submitted to a journal. 
• "Local versus Aggregate Lending Channels: The Effects of Securitization on Corporate Credit Supply"(with Gabriel Jiménez, Atif Mian and Jesús Saurina), submitted to a journal.
• "The Low Monetary Rates Paradox, Banking Stability and Credit: Evidence from the Euro Area," (with Angela Maddaloni). To be presented at the Fourth IJCB Financial Stability Conference to be held in Hong Kong, May 2012.
• "Credit Supply versus Demand: Bank and Firm Balance-Sheet Channels in Good and Crisis Times," (with Gabriel Jiménez, Steven Ongena and Jesús Saurina), submitted to a journal. 
• "Macroprudential Policy, Countercyclical Bank Capital Buffers and Credit Supply:  Evidence from the Spanish Dynamic Provisioning Experiments," (with Gabriel Jiménez, Steven Ongena and Jesús Saurina), submitted to a journal.

Work in Progress:

• "Shocks Abroad, Pain at Home? Bank-Firm Level Evidence on Financial Contagion during the 2007-2009 Crisis," (with Steven Ongena and Neeltje van Horen). Presented by co-authors in Chicago Fed and AEA 2012 Chicago. Working Paper soon.
• "Interbank Stress, Private & Public Liquidity Provision," (with Javier Mencía, Jesús Saurina and Xavier Vives). 
• "Financial Fragility in the Euro Area," (with Matteo Ciccarelli and Angela Maddaloni), in preparation for Economic Policy.

Other Publications:

• Discussion of "Risk Heterogeneity and Credit Supply: Evidence from the Mortgage Market," in Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference on Macroeconomics, NBER Macroeconomics Annual, Daron Acemoglu, Jonathan Parker and Michael Woodford, Editors.
• “Loose Monetary Policy and Excessive Credit and Liquidity Risk-taking by Banks” (with Steven Ongena) in The Future of Banking, ed. T. Beck, CEPR Vox EU, 2011.
• "Interbank Markets as a Source of Contagion" (with Raj Iyer) in Financial Contagion: The Viral Threat to the Wealth of Nations, ed. R. Kolb, forthcoming from Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• "Discussion of The Effects of Bank Capital on Lending: What Do We Know, and What Does It Mean?” International Journal of Central Banking, 2010.
• "The Euro Area Bank Lending Survey Matters: Empirical Evidence for Credit and Output Growth" (with Gabe de Bondt, Angela Maddaloni and Silvia Scopel), European Central Bank WP 1160, 2010.
• "Summary of Low Interest Rates, Bank Risk and the Recent Crisis: Evidence from the Euro Area and the U.S. Lending Standards," (with Angela Maddaloni) Evanoff D. (ed.), Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Conference on Bank Structure and Competition Proceedings, 2010.
• "Euro Area Household Credit Growth: Demand or Supply Driven?" (with Gabe de Bondt, Angela Maddaloni and Silvia Scopel), Revue Bancaire et Financière - Bank- en Financiewezen, 2010.
• "Systemic Risk in Banking: an Update" (with Olivier de Bandt and Philipp Hartmann) Oxford Handbook of Banking, ed. by A. Berger, P. Molyneux and J. Wilson, Oxford University Press, 2009.
• "Financial Integration and Risk Sharing: The Role of Monetary Union" (with Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Simone Manganelli, and Elias Papaioannou) in: Mackowiak, B., Mongelli, F. P., Noblet, G., Smets, F. (Ed.), The Euro at Ten: Lessons and Challenges, 116-155, European Central Bank, 2009.
• "The Impact of Short-Term Interest Rates on Risk-Taking: Hard Evidence" (with Vasso Ioannidou and Steven Ongena) The First Global Financial Crisis of the 21st Century, VoxEU CEPR, ed. by A. Felton and C. Reinhart, 2008.
• "Evidence on the Impact of Monetary Policy on Bank Credit Risk," (with Gabriel Jiménez, Steven Ongena and Jesús Saurina) in Evanoff D. (ed.), Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Conference on Bank Structure and Competition Proceedings, 417-421, 2008.
• “Bank Lending Standards and the Origins and Implications of the Current Banking Crisis,” (with Angela Maddaloni), ECB Research Bulletin, 2010.
• "Contagion through Interbank Markets: Evidence from India," (with Raj Iyer), Vox EU, CEPR, 2010. 
• "The Euro’s Financial Integration of Europe," (with Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Elias Papaioannou), Vox EU, CEPR, 2009.
• "The Impact of Short-Term Interest Rates on Risk-Taking: Hard Evidence" (with Vasso Ioannidou and Steven Ongena), Vox EU, CEPR, 2007.
• "Contagion via Interbank Markets: a Survey" Committee on Global Financial Stability-Bank of Japan-Fed Board-ECB 2007.

Publications in Spanish Journals and Seminars in Spain:

• "Bank Credit Standards, Demand, Pro-cyclicality and the Business Cycle," (with Angela Maddaloni), Moneda y Crédito, #230, 2010.
• “Las Implicaciones Macroeconómicas de la Integración Financiera,” Papeles de Economía Española, November, 2009.
• “Bancos, Crédito y Mecanismo de Transmisión de la Política Monetaria: Nuevas Perspectivas,” (with Santiago Carbó Valverde and David Marqués), Perspectivas del Sistema Financiero, #95, 2009.
• "Interbank Contagion," Moneda y Crédito, #224, 2007.
• Seminars: Banco de España, Banco Santander, La Caixa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Universidad Carlos III, IESE, ESADE, Instituto de Empresa.

Selected Recent Seminars/Conferences:

• NBER Summer Institute 2012 "Finance & Macro Meeting"; CEPR Gerzensee Corporate Finance week; EEA invited session on “New Approaches to Financial Regulation"; European System of Central Banks Day Ahead Conference (discussion) (Summer 2012)
• AFA 2013 (paper+discussion);  LBS (Econ);  Bank for International Settlements;  U of Amsterdam Tinbergen Institute (Fall-Winter 2012-13 scheduled)
• NBER Macro Annual 2012 (discussant); EUI Florence (Macro); Duke Fuqua (Finance); UNC Kenan-Flagler (Finance); AEA 2012 Chicago (co-author presents); Corporate Finance Conference at U. of Minnesota  (Jan-May 2012)
• CEPR Banca d´Italia "Macroprudential Policies, Regulatory Reform and Macroeconomic Modeling" at Rome; CEPR CREI on "Asset Prices and the Business Cycle"; CEPR National Bank of Belgium "Financial Intermediation and Macroeconomics: Directions Since the Crisis" at Brussels (discussant); IMF Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference on "Monetary and Macroprudential Policies"; Bocconi Carefin on "Bank Competitiveness in the Post-Crisis World: Implications of Regulatory Reforms and Exit Strategies"; IX Trobada Barcelona GSE at CSIC IAE (October-December 2011)
• CEPR 20th ESSET Gerzensee "Financial Intermediation, Regulation, and the Crisis" week (morning session);  CEPR-EBC-HEC-NYSE/Euronext-RoF "Financial Intermediation and the Real Economy" @ Paris NYSE/Euronext (discussant); CEPR-CREI Conference on Institutions and International Capital Flows (attended, co-author presented); ECB (Summer 2011)  
• Harvard (applied theory);  MIT (micro applications/ labor);  Federal Reserve Board at DC;  IMF (research);  IESE (February-April 2011)
• AEA (3 papers + discussion), AFA (1 paper) (scheduled) 2011 Denver 
• Bank of Santander (discussant) (November 2010)  
• Universitat Pompeu Fabra; ECB (September-October 2010)
• EFA Frankfurt 2010 (discussion); Econometric Society World Congress 2010 Shanghai (August 2010)
• NBER Summer Institute 2010, Monetary Economics group, July 2010
• WFA 2010 Victoria; Review of Financial Studies and Kauffmann Foundation "Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation" Conference (June 2010)    
• CEPR conference on “Bank Crisis Prevention and Resolution” Amsterdam (discussion) (May 2010)  
• IESE & ESADE joint seminar;  BIS Basel;  Goethe University (April-May 2010) 
• CEPR conference on "Procyclicality and Financial Regulation" Tilburg (discussion); Workshop on Industrial Organization and Banking at IESE (March 2010)
• New York Fed;  Darmouth College (econ);  De Nederlandsche Bank (February 2010)
• AFA Atlanta 2010 (discussion) 
• ECARES-Université Libre de Bruxelles;  University of Amsterdam-Tinbergen Institute  (October 2009)
• NBER Summer Institute, Risk and Financial Institutions group, July 2009
• NBER Summer Institute, Capital Markets and the Macroeconomy group, July 2009
• Review of Financial Studies Financial Crisis Conference at Yale, July 2009
• CEPR conference on Financial Crisis, Barcelona, May 2009
• CEPR conference on Money, Banking and Finance, Rome, October 2009
• CEPR conference on Global Interdependence, Florence, March 2009
• Financial Intermediation Research Society, Prague, May 2009
• AFA San Francisco 2009
• ECB Staff Paper on The Euro at Ten - 5th ECB Central Banking Conference, 13-14 Nov 2008

Referee:

• American Economic Review, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Applied Econometrics, International Journal of Central Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, ECB Working Papers, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, La Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva.