Peydró is ICREA Research Professor at UPF, Professor of Economcis and Finance 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, Bundesbank Research Professor, 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, Financial Management and the Spanish Review of Financial Economics. He has presented his research in the main universities and central banks in the world.

Research interests

Specializing in Finance and Macroeconomics, mainly on banking, systemic risk, financial crises, central bank policies (monetary and prudential policy), financial globalization, contagion, 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.