Sandeep Baliga

Sandeep Baliga is the John L and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences in the MEDS Department at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Professor Baliga uses game theory and the theory of incentives to study fundamental issues in economics and political science. He is writing a book bringing together much of the game-theoretic research in international relations into one over-encompassing framework. He is currently studying how the strategic nature of conflict changes with the technology of war and how the the logic of deterrence changes when there is an attribution problem as in cyberattacks.

Professor Baliga read Economics at St. John's College, Cambridge University and received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University. He has been on sabbatical at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, Boston University, MIT and, most recently, Harvard. He was a Fulbright Scholar and an invited Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

Professor Baliga teaches Managerial Economics, Competitive Strategy and Industrial Structure, and Leadership and Crisis Management at the MBA level and "Conflict and Cooperation" at the PhD level. Baliga was the Managing Editor of the Berkeley Electronic Press Journals in Theoretical Economics and Associate Editor of the European Economic Review. He has published in top journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Political Economy, RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies and the Review of Financial Studies. He is the co-creator of Purple Pricing, an innovative auction method that has been used by Northwestern University to sell football and basketball tickets. He started a consulting company with two partners to commercialize these ideas. In his spare time, Professor Baliga likes learning guitar and going to concerts and the theatre.

Research Interests

• Game-theoretic approach to international relations; game theory; mechanism design; contract theory; theory of the firm;

Education

• PhD, 1993, Economics, Harvard University
• BA, 1988, Cambridge University, Double First Class Honors

Academic Positions

• Visiting Associate Professor, Economics, Boston University and M.I.T., 2009-2010
• Visiting Professor, Economics, Harvard University, 2015-2016
• Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1-present
• Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, 2000-2001
• Berry-Ramsey Junior Research Fellow, King's College, Cambridge University, 1993-1997

Awards

• Excellence in Refereeing Award for the AER, American Economic Review
• Excellence in Refereeing Award, American Economic Review
• Excellence in Refereeing, American Economic Review, 2014
• Google Research Award, Google, 2014-2016
• Excellence in Refereeing, The American Economic Review, 2013

Editorial Positions

• Editor, Berkeley Electronic Press Journals in Theoretical Economics, 2011-2013
• Associate Editor, European Economic Review, 2003-2009