other fields, as well as having implications for competition policy. A path breaking contribution was the pioneer application of lattice-theoretic methods to analyze games of strategic complementarities (or supermodular games), and in general complementarities, in economics. His contribution opened the gates to numerous applications in a wide range of fields including macroeconomics and finance. Further work has studied incomplete information economies and the mechanisms of information aggregation and transmission in markets and learning by traders formalizing the ideas of Hayek. This work provides a bridge between the rational expectations and the herding literatures. and has been applied to study the dynamics of asset prices. Vives has contributed to the study of competition and regulation in banking and of financial stability with research that has policy implications for the financial crisis and European financial integration. More recently, he has examined the implications for competition, innovation and the macroeconomy of the rise of common ownership. Books Oligopoly Pricing: Old Ideas and New Tools (MIT Press, 1999). Information and Learning in Markets: the Impact of Market Microstructure (Princeton University Press, 2008). Competition and Stability in Banking: the Role of Regulation and Competition Policy (Princeton University Press, 2016). Awards and honors Vives is a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1992, of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2002, of the European Economic Association since 2004, of the Spanish Economic Association since 2010, of the Institute of Catalan Studies since 2011 and of the Academia Europaea since 2012. He has received several research prizes in Spain, among them the Premio Nacional de Investigación Pascual Madoz 2020, the Premio Rey Jaime I de Economía in 2013. In 2009 and 2018 he was awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant, and in 2015 a Wim Duisenberg Fellowship from the European Central Bank. President of EARIE (European Association for Research in Industrial Economics) for the period 2016–2018 and current Vicepresident of the European Finance Association. Distinguished Fellow of the Luohan Academy since 2020. References External links 1955 births Living people Spanish economists Autonomous University of Barcelona alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Academic staff of the University of Navarra Fellows of the Econometric Society Fellows of the European Economic Association Directors of CaixaBank