Xavier Gabaix is Pershing Square Professor of 福利导航s and Finance at Harvard鈥檚 economics department. He received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from the Ecole Normale Sup茅rieure (Paris) and obtained his PhD in economics from Harvard University. His research focuses on finance, macroeconomics, and behavioral economics. He received the Fischer Black prize given every two years to the best financial economist under 40, the Bernacer prize given to the best European economist under 40 working in macroeconomics and finance, and the Lagrange and Allais Prizes. His research has been published in the American 福利导航 Review, Econometrica, the Quarterly Journal of 福利导航s, the Journal of Finance, and Nature. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of 福利导航 Research and of the Center for 福利导航 Policy Research.
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