Standout Papers

Zipf's Law for Cities: An Explanation 1999 2026 2008 2017 1.1k
  1. Zipf's Law for Cities: An Explanation (1999)
    Xavier Gabaix The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  2. Why Has CEO Pay Increased So Much?* (2008)
    Xavier Gabaix, Augustin Landier The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  3. Shrouded Attributes, Consumer Myopia, and Information Suppression in Competitive Markets (2006)
    Xavier Gabaix, David Laibson The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  4. A theory of power-law distributions in financial market fluctuations (2003)
    Xavier Gabaix, Parameswaran Gopikrishnan et al. Nature
  5. The Granular Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations (2011)
    Xavier Gabaix Econometrica
  6. Power Laws in Economics and Finance (2009)
    Xavier Gabaix Annual Review of Economics
  7. Variable Rare Disasters: An Exactly Solved Framework for Ten Puzzles in Macro-Finance * (2012)
    Xavier Gabaix The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  8. The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions over the Life Cycle and Implications for Regulation (2009)
    Sumit Agarwal, John C. Driscoll et al. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
  9. International Liquidity and Exchange Rate Dynamics* (2015)
    Xavier Gabaix, Matteo Maggiori The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  10. A Sparsity-Based Model of Bounded Rationality * (2014)
    Xavier Gabaix The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  11. A Behavioral New Keynesian Model (2020)
    Xavier Gabaix American Economic Review

Immediate Impact

10 by Nobel laureates 14 from Science/Nature 75 standout
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Citing Papers

The universal visitation law of human mobility
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12 intermediate papers

Works of Xavier Gabaix being referenced

The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions over the Life Cycle and Implications for Regulation
2009 Standout
Limits of Arbitrage: Theory and Evidence from the Mortgage‐Backed Securities Market
2007
and 3 more

Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Xavier Gabaix 9224 5298 3571 93 13.6k
José Scheinkman 8610 5008 2309 107 13.8k
Douglas Gale 6849 7829 3748 106 11.7k
Glenn Ellison 5676 3031 2916 65 10.6k
Burton G. Malkiel 9721 12118 6276 99 17.0k
David M. Kreps 8639 4730 2241 63 16.0k
Ivo Welch 6366 10479 11497 102 18.6k
Paul A. Samuelson 12625 3514 2128 303 18.8k
Hyun Song Shin 6645 9180 2721 236 12.8k
Andrew W. Lo 14331 17745 5199 323 24.8k
Harrison Hong 6842 11040 9585 110 15.9k

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