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Xavier Gabaix

Professor of Finance
Joined Stern: 2007
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Kaufman Management Center
44 West 4th Street, KMC 9-75
New York, NY 10012
Email: xgabaix@stern.nyu.edu
Research, publications, honors, and more
Teaches Research Interests
Academic Background
M.A., MathematicsEcole Normale Supérieure
Ph.D., EconomicsHarvard University
Biography
Xavier Gabaix joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Associate Professor of Finance in September 2007. Before joining NYU Stern, Professor Gabaix was an Associate Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Professor Gabaix’s research interests focus on asset pricing, executive pay, the causes and consequences of seemingly irrational behavior, the origins scaling laws in economics, and macroeconomics. His research has been published in many journals including the Journal of Finance, American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics and Nature.

Professor Gabaix is also a Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He earned his M.A. in mathematics from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.