CV
A pdf version of my CV may be found here.
Employment
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
- Associate Professor in Strategy (with tenure), 2022-present
- Associate Professor in Strategy (without tenure), 2018-2022
- Assistant Professor in Strategy, 2015-2018
- Donald P. Jacobs Scholar in Management and Strategy, 2014-2015
Harvard University Economics Department
- Visiting Professor, 2019
Yale University Economics Department, Cowles Foundation
- Postdoctoral Associate, 2013-2014
Education
PhD in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013
BA in Economics, Indiana University, 2008
BS in Mathematics, Indiana University, 2008
Publications
[1] Andrews, Isaiah, and Daniel Barron. 2016. "The Allocation of Future Business: Dynamic Relational Contracts with Multiple Agents." American Economic Review 106 (9): 2742-2759.
[2] Barron, Daniel. 2017. "Attaining Efficiency with Imperfect Public Monitoring and One-Sided Markov Adverse Selection." Theoretical Economics 12 (3): 957-978.
[3] Barron, Daniel, and Michael Powell. 2019. "Policies in Relational Contracts." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 11 (2): 228-249.
[4] Barron, Daniel, Robert Gibbons, Ricard Gil, and Kevin J. Murphy. 2020. "Relational Adaptation under Reel Authority." Management Science 66 (5): 1868-1889.
[5] Barron, Daniel, George Georgiadis, and Jeroen Swinkels. 2020. "Optimal Contracts with a Risk-Taking Agent." Theoretical Economics 15 (2): 715-761.
[6] Barron, Daniel, and Yingni Guo. 2020. "The Use and Misuse of Coordinated Punishments." Quarterly Journal of Economics 136 (1): 471-504.
[7] Barron, Daniel, Jin Li, and Michal Zator. 2022. "Morale and Debt Dynamics." Management Science 68 (6):4496-4516.
[8] Barron, Daniel, Yingni Guo, and Bryony Reich. 2022. "Wealth Dynamics in Communities." Forthcoming, Review of Economic Studies.
Working Papers
[9] Barron, Daniel, and Michael Powell. 2021. "Markets for Rhetorical Services."
Awards
Excellence in Refereeing Award, AER: Insights, 2020
Chair's Core Course Teaching Award, Strategy, 2020
Excellence in Refereeing Award, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017
CESifo Distinguished Affiliate Award in Applied Microeconomics for the paper "The Allocation of Future Business: Dynamic Relational Contracts with Multiple Agents," 2017
Kellogg Faculty Impact Award for STRT-431, 2016
Kellogg Faculty Impact Award for STRT-431, 2015
CEPR Deutsche Bahn Prize for Outstanding Research in Organisation and Management for the paper "Relational Contracts Under Reel Authority," 2015
James A. and Ruth Levitan Teaching Award at MIT, 2012
Professional Activities
Editor, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (2022-present)
Pennsylvania State University Mini-Course on "Cooperation in Organizations" (2022)
IOEA Summer Workshop on Organizational and Institutions Invited Presenter (2019)
Junior Organizational Economics Workshop committee member (2018)
Relational Contracting Workshop conference organizer (2017), committee member (2015-2022)
Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE) session organizer (2017, 2020)
Theoretical Research in Development Economics (ThReD) Associate
CESifo Network research affiliate
Refereeing Activities: American Economic Review; American Economic Review: Insights; Quarterly Journal of Economics; Econometrica; Journal of Political Economy; Review of Economic Studies; American Economic Journal: Microeconomics; Journal of Labor Economics; Theoretical Economics; Journal of Economic Theory; Management Science; RAND Journal of Economics; Journal of the European Economic Association; Journal of Finance; Journal of Financial Economics; Journal of Law, Economics, and Organizations; Games and Economic Behavior; Economic Journal; International Economic Review; International Journal of Industrial Organization; Journal of Law and Economics; Journal of Economics and Management Studies; and others
Seminar and Conference Presentations
2021-2022: Aalto University; Pennsylvania State University (including weeklong mini-course); MIT Sloan
2020-2021: SIOE Annual Conference; CETC virtual seminar series; JKU-Linz; ThReD Conference; Relational Contracting Workshop; Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE); Discussant for VSET virtual seminar
2019-2020: Harvard Law School; Harvard Contracts lunch; Stanford; Berkeley; UC Davis; Cornell; University of New South Wales; NBER Organizational Economics Working Group; Cowles Conference on Economic Theory; ThReD Conference; Queens Organizational Economics Conference (invited speaker); Org Econ Workshop in Australia (invited speaker); IOEA Workshop (invited speaker)
2018-19: Arizona State University; University of Waterloo; Michigan State University; University of Michigan; Relational Contracting Workshop; Columbia Junior OE Workshop
2017-18: University of Chicago; University of Southern California; University of Toronto – Rotman; SIOE Annual Conference; ASSA Annual Meeting (discussant); CSIO-IDEI (discussant)
2016-17: NYU Stern School of Business; University of Utah (Eccles Finance); Queens University; CESifo Applied Microeconomics Conference; CSIO-IDEI IO Conference; SIOE Annual Conference (session organizer); Columbia/Duke/MIT/Northwestern IO Theory Conference (discussant)
2015-16: SIOE Annual Conference; Utah Business Economics Conference (discussant)
2014-15: Purdue University; University of Bonn; LMU Munich; Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE); NBER Organizational Economics Workshop; ISNIE/SIOE Annual Conference; Relational Contracting Workshop; ASSA Annual Conference
2013-14: Yale; Columbia; ISNIE Conference; Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Conference (SAET)
2012-13: Northwestern University (Kellogg Strategy); Northwestern University (Kellogg MEDS); UCSD; Rochester (Simon); Harvard Business School (Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets); Boston University; Notre Dame; London School of Economics (MESG); Washington University of St Louis (Olin); Yale