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Sandeep Baliga
Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences
John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences
Co-Director, Math Center
Chair, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences Department
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 to study fundamental issues in economics and political science. He is writing a book bringing together the game-theoretic research in international relations into one over-encompassing framework. He is currently studying the optimal combination of targeted and comprehensive sanctions to maximize persuasion and factors that might make wars last a long time. He has published in journals including the American Economic Review, American Political Science Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Political Economy, RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies and the Review of Financial Studies. Baliga was an Advisory Editor at Games and Economic Behavior, Managing Editor of the Berkeley Electronic Press Journals in Theoretical Economics and Associate Editor of the European Economic Review. He is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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.
He is the co-creator of Purple Pricing, an innovative auction method that was used by Northwestern University to sell football and basketball tickets. In his spare time, Professor Baliga likes to drink wine and play guitar, though not at the same time.
About Sandeep
Research interests
- Game-theoretic approach to international relations; game theory; mechanism design; contract theory; theory of the firm;
Teaching interests
- Competitive strategy and industrial structure; crisis management; international relations
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PhD, 1993, Economics, Harvard University
BA, 1988, Cambridge University, Double First Class Honors -
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
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, 2000-2001
Berry-Ramsey Junior Research Fellow, King's College, Cambridge University, 1993-1997 -
Lifetime Member, Council on Foreign Relations, Lifetime
Plenary Lecture, Social Science Security Seminar at West Point
Lifetime Member, Council on Foreign Relations, Lifetime
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
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 2011-2012 -
Associate Editor, Games and Economic Behavior, 2021
Editor, Berkeley Electronic Press Journals in Theoretical Economics, 2011-2013
Associate Editor, European Economic Review, 2003-2009