| Why has CEO pay increased so much? X Gabaix, A Landier Quarterly Journal of Economics 123 (1), 49-100, 2008 | 2258 | 2008 |
| Zipf's law for cities: an explanation X Gabaix Quarterly journal of Economics 114 (3), 739-767, 1999 | 2199 | 1999 |
| Shrouded attributes, consumer myopia, and information suppression in competitive markets X Gabaix, D Laibson Quarterly Journal of Economics 121 (2), 505-540, 2006 | 1626 | 2006 |
| The granular origins of aggregate fluctuations X Gabaix Econometrica 79, 733-772, 2011 | 1400 | 2011 |
| A theory of power-law distributions in financial market fluctuations X Gabaix, P Gopikrishnan, V Plerou, HE Stanley Nature 423 (6937), 267-270, 2003 | 1379 | 2003 |
| The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions over the Life Cycle and Implications for Regulation S Agarwal, JC Driscoll, X Gabaix, D Laibson Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 51-117, 2009 | 1125* | 2009 |
| Power laws in economics and finance X Gabaix Annual Review of Economics 1, 255-93, 2009 | 1124 | 2009 |
| Variable rare disasters: An exactly solved framework for ten puzzles in macro-finance X Gabaix Quarterly Journal of Economics 127 (2), 645-700, 2012 | 889 | 2012 |
| Rank− 1/2: a simple way to improve the OLS estimation of tail exponents X Gabaix, R Ibragimov Journal of Business & Economic Statistics 29 (1), 24-39, 2011 | 876* | 2011 |
| The evolution of city size distributions X Gabaix, YM Ioannides Handbook of regional and urban economics 4, 2341-2378, 2004 | 702 | 2004 |
| Costly information acquisition: Experimental analysis of a boundedly rational model X Gabaix, D Laibson, G Moloche, S Weinberg The American Economic Review 96 (4), 1043-1068, 2006 | 652* | 2006 |
| A multiplicative model of optimal CEO incentives in market equilibrium A Edmans, X Gabaix, A Landier The Review of Financial Studies 22 (12), 4881-4917, 2009 | 582 | 2009 |
| Institutional investors and stock market volatility X Gabaix, P Gopikrishnan, V Plerou, HE Stanley Quarterly Journal of Economics 121 (2), 461-504, 2006 | 577 | 2006 |
| A sparsity-based model of bounded rationality X Gabaix Quarterly Journal of Economics 129 (4), 1661–1710, 2014 | 546 | 2014 |
| Rare disasters and exchange rates E Farhi, X Gabaix Quarterly Journal of Economics 131 (1), 1-52, 2016 | 466 | 2016 |
| International Liquidity and Exchange Rate Dynamics X Gabaix, M Maggiori Quarterly Journal of Economics 130 (3), 1369-1420, 2015 | 438 | 2015 |
| Statistical properties of share volume traded in financial markets P Gopikrishnan, V Plerou, X Gabaix, HE Stanley Physical Review E 62 (4), R4493-R4496, 2000 | 403 | 2000 |
| Zipf's Law and the Growth of Cities X Gabaix American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings 89 (2), 129-132, 1999 | 379 | 1999 |
| The area and population of cities: new insights from a different perspective on cities HD Rozenfeld, D Rybski, X Gabaix, HA Makse American Economic Review 101 (5), 2205-2225, 2011 | 348 | 2011 |
| The dynamics of inequality X Gabaix, JM Lasry, PL Lions, B Moll Econometrica 84 (6), 2071–2111, 2016 | 316 | 2016 |
David LaibsonProfessor of Economics, Harvard UniversityVerified email at fas.harvard.edu
