Xavier Sala-i-Martin

In this Catalan name, the first or paternal surname is Sala and the second or maternal family name is Martín; both are generally joined by the conjunction "i".
Xavier Sala i Martín
Born (1962-06-17) June 17, 1962 (age 62)
Cabrera de Mar, Catalonia, Spain
Academic career
FieldMacroeconomics
School or
tradition		Neo-classical economics
Doctoral
advisor		Robert J. Barro[1]
N. Gregory Mankiw[1]
ContributionsEconomic growth
Libertarianism
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Xavier X. Sala i Martín[2] (also Sala-i-Martin in English) is a Catalan economist and professor of economics at Columbia University. Sala i Martin is one of the leading economists in the field of economic growth.[3]

In addition to working at Columbia, he has been a professor at Yale University, Harvard University, and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, where he usually visits for a term every summer.

  1. ^ a b "Thesis". www.columbia.edu.
  2. ^ "Xavier Sala-i-Martin". www.nber.org. Retrieved 2019-08-29.
  3. ^ "The Enduring Elixir of Economic Growth" (PDF). World Economics. 7 (1). 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 Mar 2022. Retrieved 2 Mar 2023.