Hello! I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at Rice University. I study corporate finance, including topics related to the managerial labor market (including compensation, mobility and human capital), shareholder voting, and capital budgeting, among others.

I have a PhD in Finance from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and a BA in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Sociology (PPES) from Trinity College Dublin.

john.w.barry@rice.edu

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Updates

• 2026.10.08: New version of Shareholder Voice and Executive Compensation
• 2026.08.31: New paper: Beyond the Ballot: Shareholder Engagement and Governance Dynamics
• 2026.08.31: New version of Human Capital, Competition and Mobility in the Managerial Labor Market
  • Presented at the Econometric Society Summer School in Dynamic Structural Econometrics 2026, the European Finance Association 2026, and the NBER Economics of Executive Compensation Conference
• 2026.07.20: New version of Information and Preferences in Shareholder Voting
  • Presenting at the Oktoberfest Finance Conference and the Northern Finance Association
  • Presented at the Vienna Festival of Finance Theory and FIRS 2026