John Barrios is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Yale School of Management and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, in both the Political Economy and the Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship groups.
His work sits at the intersection of accounting, labor economics, entrepreneurship, political economy, and antitrust. He studies how accounting information and the rules that govern it shape firms and the people who run them: who enters the profession, who starts a business, how politics colors the way people read and act on the numbers, and how capital market disclosure regulation intersects with antitrust enforcement. Recent projects examine the rise of private equity in accounting firms, the effect of remote work on financial misconduct, and how financial reporting quality shapes firm productivity.
His research has appeared in the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, and Management Science, and has been covered by The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, and Fortune.
Before joining Yale SOM, he was Assistant Professor of Accounting and Fujimori/Mou Faculty Scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Assistant Professor at Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Miami and his B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell.
At Yale SOM he teaches Financial Accounting and Valuation and The Private Firm CFO (MGT 816). He co-founded the Labor and Accounting Group, a research community at the intersection of labor economics and accounting.
