AMEET MORJARIA

Senior Lecturer, Applied Economics & Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management

email:  morjaria "at" mit.edu

affiliations: NBER (DEV &  PIE);  CEPR (DE, OE, PE & IO); BREAD; CESifo; former CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar; IGC; Pan-African Research Council; Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains

research fields:  Economic Development, Organizational Economics, Political Economy & Environmental Economics 

CV    Google Scholar

WORKING PAPERS / ADVANCED WORK IN PROGRESS

• Building Productive Relationships   with Nemanja Antic and Miguel Talamas

• Acquisitions, Management and Efficiency in Rwanda's Coffee Industry   with Rocco Macchiavello 

      NBER Working Paper, June 2022

        Media coverage: NBER Digest No. 10, Oct 2022

• Product Conflation and Deconflation: An Anatomy of a Commodity Marketplace Reform   

• Political Economy of the Environment

• Quality Incentives and  Upgrading in Uganda’s Coffee Supply Chain   with Jie Bai, Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Russell Morton and Yulu Tang                      

• Deforestation in the Congo Basin  with Devis Decet and Marie-Louise Décamps                                    ,

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

[7] State Building in a Diverse Society with Ruth Carlitz, Joris Mueller and Philip Osafo-Kwaako

Review of Economic Studies, December 2024

[6] Relational Contracts: Recent Empirical Advances and Open Questions with Rocco Macchiavello

Journal of Institutional & Theoretical Economics, December 2023

[5] Electoral Violence and Supply Chain Disruptions in Kenya’s Floriculture Industry   with Chris Ksoll and Rocco Macchiavello 

             Review of Economic & Statistics,  November 2023 

             Media coverage: KelloggInsight; voxeu.org; Policy Notes: iiG

[4] Empirical Approaches to Trust and Relational Contracts  with Rocco Macchiavello

International Journal of Industrial Organization, September 2022 

[3] Competition and Relational Contracts in the Rwanda Coffee Chain [Online Appendix]   with Rocco Macchiavello

            Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2021

            Media coverage: KelloggInsight; VoxDev; National Agricultural Export Board Rwanda; The East African; The New Times

            Policy Notes: IGC

[2]  The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya [Online Appendix]  with Robin Burgess, Remi Jedwab, Edward Miguel and Gerard Padro i Miquel

            American Economic Review, June 2015

            Media coverage: KelloggInsight; voxeu.org; chrisblattman.com; AEA Research Highlight           

[1] The Value of Relationships: Evidence from a Supply Shock to Kenyan Rose Exports [Online Appendix]  with Rocco Macchiavello

            American Economic Review, September 2015

            Media coverage: KelloggInsight; AEA Research Highlight; Microeconomic Insights                   

SURVEYS

International Trade VoxDev Issue 2 [Senior Editors: Atkin and Khandelwal, 2025]