Daniel Barron
Associate Professor of Strategy at Kellogg School of Management
Schools
- Kellogg School of Management
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Biography
Kellogg School of Management
Daniel Barron is an Associate Professor of Strategy. He received his PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013. Before coming to Kellogg, he spent a year as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Cowles Foundation at Yale University. Professor Barron's interests include contract theory and organizational economics. His research focuses on how firms and other organizations use relational contracts to motivate their long-term partners.
Research Interests
- Relational Contracts, Economics of Organizations, Contract Theory
Education
- Ph.D., 2013, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- B.A., 2008, Economics, Indiana University
- B.S., 2008, Mathematics, Indiana University
Academic Positions
- Visiting Professor, Economics, Harvard University, 2019-2019
- Associate Professor, Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2018-present
- Assistant Professor, Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2014-2018
- Postdoctoral Associate, Economics, Yale University, 2013-2014
Awards
- AER: Insights Excellence in Refereeing Award, American Economic Association
- Chairs' Core Course Teaching Award, 2019-2020
- ThReD Associate, Theoretical Research in Development Economics
- JEEA Excellence in Refereeing Award 2017, The European Economic Association
- CESifo Prize in Applied Microeconomics - Distinguished CESifo Affiliate, CESifo
- Kellogg Faculty Impact Award (STRT-431)
- Kellogg Faculty Impact Award (STRT-431), Kellogg School of Management
- Deutsche Bahn Prize For Outstanding Research in Organisation and Management ("Relational Adaptation under Reel Authority"), Centre for Economic Policy Research
- James A and Ruth Levitan Teaching Award, Massachussetts Institute of Technology
- Massachussetts Institute of Technology Fellowship
Editorial Positions
- Referee, Review of Economic Studies, 2021
- Referee, Journal of Finance, 2020
- Referee, European Economic Review, 2020
- Referee, Theoretical Economics, 2019
- Referee, American Economic Review: Insights, 2018
- Referee, Econometrica, 2017
- Referee, RAND Journal of Economics, 2017
- Referee, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017
- Referee, American Economic Review
- Referee, Journal of Economic Theory
- Referee, Journal of the European Economic Association
- Referee, Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization
- Referee, Management Science
- Referee, Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Referee, International Economic Review
- Referee, Scandinavian Journal of Economics
- Referee, Games and Economic Behavior
- Referee, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
- Referee, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
- Referee, Economic Theory
- Referee, Journal of Law and Economics
- Referee, International Journal of Industrial Organization
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