Associate Professor of Strategy @ Northwestern Kellogg. He/Him. Economist that studies cooperation among firms, workers, and communities. Climber, hiker, nerd.

Joined June 2015
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Hot off the press! Optimal dynamic contests with endogenous feedback. Big thank you to all who helped improve this paper!
A principal monitors effort via coarse binary signals and designs a contest, comprising termination and prize allocation rules, and a real-time feedback policy to induce the maximum possible effort in the shortest possible time. From @Jeffely, @gjgeorgiadis, Khorasani and Rayo:
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Kellogg School of Management PhD Candidate Théo Durandard’s research interests are Microeconomic Theory, Economics of Organizations. Learn more about Theo & other Northwestern Economics Job Market Candidates at economics.northwestern.edu/p…
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This paper uses game theory to study how favor exchange influences household wealth dynamics. It identifies a tension between accumulating wealth and relying on favors, which can exacerbate wealth inequality. From @dvbarron, @YingniGuo and Reich: restud.com/paper/wealth-dyna…
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*New working paper* “Monitoring Harassment in Organizations,” w/ @SylvainChassang, @adagt3, and @RachelMHeath. I'm excited to present it tomorrow at #NBERSI Personnel @ 2:40 pm! Watch here: youtube.com/nbervideos. Also, a thread about our paper. 1/13 dropbox.com/s/lt0r4jgeovuh1d…

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I'm super excited to announce that I got tenure at Northwestern @KelloggSchool! So grateful for colleagues, friends, family, and the awesome economics community.
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We are optimistic that this year we will finally be able to meet again in person. Of course, this will depend on the Covid situation, so let us keep our fingers crossed! See relationalcontracts.net/ for more info on this year's and past workshops. @dvbarron @FahnMatthias
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Energy/enviro econ job market candidates: just found out that postdoc at Berkeley in natural resource econ did not make it into JOE. Deadline is this Friday (w no flexibility). Pay is light, but duties are even lighter. Great colleagues. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03…

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Kellogg School of Management PhD Candidate Ruozhou Yan’s research interest is Microeconomic Theory, Economics of Organizations, Political Economy. Learn at kelloggphds.northwestern.edu… & other Northwestern Economics Job Market Candidates at economics.northwestern.edu/p…
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Kellogg School of Management PhD Candidate Henrique Castro-Pires’s research interest is Microeconomic Theory, Economics of Organizations. Learn more about Henrique at sites.northwestern.edu/kello… & other Northwestern Economics Job Market Candidates at economics.northwestern.edu/p…
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Kellogg School of Management PhD Candidate Ruozhou Yan’s research interest is Microeconomic Theory, Economics of Organizations, Political Economy. Learn about Ruozhou Yan at kelloggphds.northwestern.edu… & other Northwestern Economics Job Market Candidates at economics.northwestern.edu/p…
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Kellogg School of Management PhD Candidate Miguel Ángel Talamas Marcos’s research interest is Development Economics, Organizational Economics, Labor Economics. Learn more at kelloggphds.northwestern.edu… & other Northwestern Economics Job Market Candidates at economics.northwestern.edu/p…
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Kellogg School of Management PhD Candidate Andres Espitia’s research interest is Economics of Organizations, Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral Economics. Learn more about @afespitia & other Northwestern Economics Job Market Candidates at economics.northwestern.edu/p…
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The first presenter is Daniel Barron (@dvbarron @KelloggSchool) who talks about “Wealth Dynamics in Communities,” (joint with Yingni Guo @YingniGuo and Bryony Reich. They develop a model to explore a key obstacle to wealth accumulation: wealth can crowd out favor exchange.
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Hayek (1945) recognized that well-functioning economic systems must motivate parties to adapt to changing circumstances. How do business relationships navigate such adaptation problems?
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Congratulations to Isaiah Andrews of @Harvard, winner of the 2021 John Bates Clark Medal! aeaweb.org/about-aea/honors-…

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This is the account of the annual “Workshop on Relational Contract”. Follow us to find out about interesting papers, conferences, or stories on relational contracts and informal relationships! @dvbarron @convexify @go2hitoh @FahnMatthias
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(3/n) We are releasing an open-source deep-learning powered library, Layout Parser, that provides a variety of tools for automatically processing document image data at scale. Webpage: layout-parser.github.io/ Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2103.15348 Github: github.com/Layout-Parser/lay…

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We will have a seminar in 45 minutes (at April 1, 2021 at 10:00AM)! The seminar will be broadcasted via Twitch: ift.tt/3q14xCW Presentation info: Daniel Barron (Northwestern, Kellogg), Wealth Dynamics in Communities
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We're hiring a development econ postdoc! 2-year position with @chrisudry, @LoriBeaman, and me at Northwestern, 1/2 time on collaborations with us on gender/devo, 1/2 on your own research. Email CV, cover letter & JMP plus letters to clr9968@gmail.com. Pls use that email for ?'s.
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