Sebastien Gay

Dr. Sebastien Gay is the Director of Financial Analysis at the Congressional Budget Office. He also teaches in the Department of Economics at Georgetown University.

Prior to joining CBO, Dr. Gay was on the faculty at the University of Chicago Department of Economics. He was also a Director at the Berkeley Research Group, where he served as an expert on litigation cases in finance and economics.

He specializes in financial economics, empirical industrial organization, and law and economics. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. More specifically, his research focuses on empirical analysis of commercial and residential real estate (buyers affordability, real estate agent expertise, and investment strategies), financial economics and corporate governance, and privacy.

Dr. Gay was also a George Mason University School of Law LEC (Law & Economics Center) Privacy Fellow and a faculty affiliate at the Center for Health and the Social Sciences (CHeSS) at the University of Chicago.

Expertise: Economics, Finance

Education

• The University of Chicago - Ph.D., Economics
• Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques Institut d'Études Politiques de Par - M.A., Political Science
• École Normale Supérieure Cachan - M.B.A., Finance & Accounting
• Paris Tech ENSAE - M.A., Finance