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Overview

John M. Barron is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, with a concentration on subfields such as Accounting, Finance, and Strategy and Management.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including Corporate Finance and Governance, Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance, Capital Investment and Risk Analysis, Risk Management in Financial Firms, Corporate Taxation and Avoidance, and Financial Reporting and Valuation Research.

Barron's recent publications demonstrate a focus on executive compensation, CEO turnover, and incentive pay structures within firms. Key recent papers include:

  • ESCALATION OF COMMITMENT AND CEO DEPARTURES: THEORY AND EVIDENCE (2021), published in the Journal of Business Economics and Management
  • Data on executive turnover timing and type for US top managers (2024), published in Data in Brief
  • Incentive pay sensitivity to firm performance prior to anticipated CEO turnover (2023), published in Heliyon
  • Incentive Pay Prior to CEO Turnover When Effort Choices Have Lasting Effects (2022), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Executive Compensation and Incentive Pay Sensitivity Prior to CEO Turnover: Evidence from US Firms (2023), published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent publication venues for Barron's work include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Business Economics and Management
  • Data in Brief
  • Heliyon

Collaborations have been notable with Dmitriy Chulkov, reflecting five joint publications, which suggest ongoing research partnerships on topics related to executive turnover and incentive pay structures.

Best Publications

  • Job Matching and On-the-Job Training

    John M. Barron;Dan A. Black;Mark A. Loewenstein

  • Employer Size: The Implications for Search, Training, Capital Investment, Starting Wages, and Wage Growth

    John M. Barron;Dan A. Black;Mark A. Loewenstein

  • Do Workers Pay for On-the-Job Training?.

    John M. Barron;Mark C. Berger;Dan A. Black

  • THE EFFECTS OF HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC PARTICIPATION ON EDUCATION AND LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES

    John M. Barron;Bradley T. Ewing;Glen R. Waddell

  • Employer Search: The Interviewing and Hiring of New Employees

    John M. Barron;John Bishop;William C. Dunkelberg

  • Gender differences in training, capital, and wages

    John M. Barron;Dan A. Black;Mark A. Loewenstein

  • Number of sellers, average prices, and price dispersion

    John M. Barron;Beck A. Taylor;John R. Umbeck

  • On-The-Job Training

    John M. Barron;Mark C. Berger;Dan A. Black

  • Peer Pressure in an Agency Relationship

    John M. Barron;Kathy Paulson Gjerde

  • EXTENSIVE SEARCH, INTENSIVE SEARCH, AND HIRING COSTS: NEW EVIDENCE ON EMPLOYER HIRING ACTIVITY

    John M. Barron;John Bishop

  • Search Effort in the Labor Market

    John M. Barron;Wesley Mellow

  • How Well Do We Measure Training

    John M. Barron;Mark C. Berger;Dan A. Black

  • Top management team turnover, CEO succession type, and strategic change

    John M. Barron;Dmitriy V. Chulkov;Glen R. Waddell

  • EMPLOYER SEARCH, TRAINING, AND VACANCY DURATION

    John M. Barron;Mark C. Berger;Dan A. Black

  • The Effects of Different Contractual Arrangements: The Case of Retail Gasoline Markets

    John M. Barron;John R. Umbeck

  • Executive rank, pay and project selection

    John M. Barron;Glen R. Waddell

  • Search in the Labor Market and the Duration of Unemployment: Some Empirical Evidence

    John M Barron

  • Changes in Labor Force Status among the Unemployed

    John M. Barron;Wesley Mellow

  • THE IMPACT OF CASINO GAMBLING ON PERSONAL BANKRUPTCY FILING RATES

    John M. Barron;Michael E. Staten;Stephanie M. Wilshusen

  • An Analysis of the Adoption of Digital Health Records Under Switching Costs

    Zafer Ozdemir;Jack Barron;Subhajyoti Bandyopadhyay

  • The Value of Comprehensive Credit Reports: Lessons from the U.S. Experience *

    John M. Barron

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan A. Black
Dan A. Black University of Chicago
Mark C. Berger
Mark C. Berger University of Kentucky
John H. Bishop
John H. Bishop Cornell University
Bradley T. Ewing
Bradley T. Ewing Texas Tech University
Thomas J. Kniesner
Thomas J. Kniesner Claremont Graduate University
Samuel Bowles
Samuel Bowles Santa Fe Institute
James D. Gwartney
James D. Gwartney Florida State University

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