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D-Index
77
Citations
39041
World Ranking
317
National Ranking
229

Xavier Gabaix publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Xavier Gabaix sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 191 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Xavier Gabaix D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Xavier Gabaix sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 77 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 2011 - Fischer Black Prize, American Finance Association (AFA)

Overview

Xavier Gabaix is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with 29 publications recorded in these fields. Subfields of their work include Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Accounting, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Management Science and Operations Research.

The main topics covered in Gabaix's research encompass:

  • Economic theories and models
  • Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
  • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism

Gabaix has published extensively in a range of academic venues, including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (15 papers)
  • American Economic Review (1 paper)
  • Journal of Political Economy (1 paper)
  • Journal of the European Economic Association (1 paper)

Among recent notable papers by Xavier Gabaix are:

  • "A Behavioral New Keynesian Model," 2020, American Economic Review
  • "Granular Instrumental Variables," 2023, Journal of Political Economy
  • "In Search of the Origins of Financial Fluctuations: The Inelastic Markets Hypothesis," 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "In Search of the Origins of Financial Fluctuations: The Inelastic Markets Hypothesis," 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Asset Demand of U.S. Households," 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent collaborators in Xavier Gabaix's research include:

  • Ralph S. J. Koijen
  • Motohiro Yogo
  • Federico Mainardi
  • Sangmin Oh
  • Robert Richmond

Gabaix has received recognition within the academic community, as evidenced by awards such as:

  • Fellows of the Econometric Society, 2011
  • Fischer Black Prize, American Finance Association (AFA), 2011

Best Publications

  • Zipf's Law for Cities: An Explanation

    Xavier Gabaix

  • Why has CEO Pay Increased So Much

    Xavier Gabaix;Augustin Landier

  • The Granular Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations

    Xavier Gabaix

  • SHROUDED ATTRIBUTES, CONSUMER MYOPIA, AND INFORMATION SUPPRESSION IN COMPETITIVE MARKETS

    Xavier Gabaix;David I. Laibson

  • A theory of power-law distributions in financial market fluctuations

    Xavier Gabaix;Parameswaran Gopikrishnan;Parameswaran Gopikrishnan;Vasiliki Plerou;H. Eugene Stanley

  • Power Laws in Economics and Finance

    Xavier Gabaix

  • Variable Rare Disasters: An Exactly Solved Framework for Ten Puzzles in Macro-Finance

    Xavier Gabaix

  • International Liquidity and Exchange Rate Dynamics

    Xavier Gabaix;Matteo Maggiori

  • A Sparsity-Based Model of Bounded Rationality*

    Xavier Gabaix

  • The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions over the Life Cycle and Implications for Regulation

    Sumit Agarwal;John C. Driscoll;Xavier Gabaix;David I. Laibson

  • The Evolution of City Size Distributions

    Xavier Gabaix;Yannis M. Ioannides

  • Institutional Investors and Stock Market Volatility

    Xavier Gabaix;Parameswaran Gopikrishnan;Vasiliki Plerou;H. Eugene Stanley

  • Costly Information Acquisition: Experimental Analysis of a Boundedly Rational Model

    Xavier Gabaix;David Laibson;Guillermo Moloche;Stephen Weinberg

  • A Multiplicative Model of Optimal CEO Incentives in Market Equilibrium

    Alex Edmans;Xavier Gabaix;Augustin Landier

  • Rank-1/2: A Simple Way to Improve the OLS Estimation of Tail Exponents

    Xavier Gabaix;Rustam Ibragimov

  • A Behavioral New Keynesian Model

    Xavier Gabaix

  • Rare Disasters and Exchange Rates

    Emmanuel Farhi;Xavier Gabaix

  • Crash Risk in Currency Markets

    Emmanuel Farhi;Samuel Paul Fraiberger;Xavier Gabaix;Romain Ranciere

  • The Dynamics of Inequality

    Xavier Gabaix;Jean Michel Lasry;Pierre Louis Lions;Benjamin Moll

  • Executive Compensation: A Survey of Theory and Evidence

    Alex Edmans;Xavier Gabaix;Dirk Jenter

  • The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions over the Life-Cycle with Implications for Regulation

    Sumit Agarwal;John C. Driscoll;Xavier Gabaix;David Laibson;David Laibson

Frequent Co-Authors

David Laibson
David Laibson Harvard University
Alex Edmans
Alex Edmans London Business School
H. Eugene Stanley
H. Eugene Stanley Boston University
Emmanuel Farhi
Emmanuel Farhi Harvard University
Augustin Landier
Augustin Landier Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Paris
Sumit Agarwal
Sumit Agarwal National University of Singapore
Ralph S. J. Koijen
Ralph S. J. Koijen University of Chicago
H. E. Stanley
H. E. Stanley Boston University
Matteo Maggiori
Matteo Maggiori Stanford University
Casper G. de Vries
Casper G. de Vries Erasmus University Rotterdam

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