Sandeep Baliga
John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences at Kellogg School of Management
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- Kellogg School of Management
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Kellogg School of Management
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
Videos
Sandeep Baliga - “Torture”
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Cases
Al-Najjar, Nabil, Sandeep Baliga and Chris Forman. 2004. Sugar Daddy: Quotas and the U.S. Government. Case 5-204-255 (KEL001).
Since 1981, the U.S. federal government has operated a price support program to help sugar beet and sugar cane producers and processors. This complex program works through a combination of loans, import quotas, and duties. As a result, sugar prices in the United States are significantly higher than world prices. For example, in December 2001, U.S. consumers paid 22.9 cents per pound, while the world price was just 9 cents per pound. The General Accounting Office estimates that the total cost to consumers is $1.9 billion a year. This case uses a simple demand-and-supply framework, using real-world data, to assess the economic and political consequences of the U.S. sugar program. The case provides students with a vivid, fact-based illustration of welfare concepts such as consumer surplus, producer surplus, and dead-weight loss in a concrete, real-world market context.
Al-Najjar, Nabil, Sandeep Baliga and Chris Forman. 2004. Steel Wars: A Battle for the Future of American Steel. Case 5-204-256 (KEL002).
This case studies the impact of tariffs, subsidies, and quotas on the U.S. steel market. It pays particular attention to "winners" and "losers" from different policies. The impact of these policies is illustrated via applications to the events in the U.S. steel market in 2001.
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