academic position
Associate Professor (untenured), Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
other affiliations
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - DEV
Member and Vice-Chair Research Committee, Pan-African Research Council
Azrieli Global Scholar, Canadian Institute For Advanced Research (CIFAR)
Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains
Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD)
CEPR Development Economics, Organizational Economics and Industrial Organization Program
International Growth Center (IGC)
Center for the Study of Industrial Organizations, Northwestern University (CSIO NU)
Program of African Studies, Northwestern University
Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship, Northwestern University
Global Poverty Research Lab (GPRL), Northwestern University
contact details
fields Economic Development, Organizational Economics, Political Economy of Low-income countries
research
publications
joint with Robin Burgess, Remi Jedwab, Edward Miguel and Gerard Padro i Miquel
AER, June 2015
joint with Rocco Macchiavello
AER, September 2015
Competition and Relational Contracts in the Rwanda Coffee Chain [Online Appendix]
joint with Rocco Macchiavello
QJE, May 2021
Media coverage: VoxDev; National Agricultural Export Board Rwanda; The East African; The New Times
Policy Notes: IGC
working papers
joint with Chris Ksoll and Rocco Macchiavello
Status: conditionally accepted, ReStat, February 2021
Policy Notes: iiG
Product Conflation and Market Design: Evidence from Ethiopia's Commodity Exchange
Status: Draft slides, July 2021
Presentations: CASBS 2021 Stanford, MIT Organizational Economics lunch, Yale Mini-Kuznets Conference 2020, 6th Workshop on Relational Contracts
Export Market Exploration from Developing Countries
joint with Nemanja Antic
Status: Draft slides, March 2021
Presentations: 7th Relational Contracts Conference 2021, NBER Africa 2019, Northwestern University
Status: Working paper, January 2021
work in progress
Governance in Agricultural Supply Chains: Evidence from Rwanda's Zoning Policy
joint with Barron M. Gatayiha Talamas
Status: fieldwork completed
Funding: Gate and Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship
Quality Upgrading and Pass-Through in Uganda's Coffee Sector
joint with Jie Bai, Lauren Falcao Bergquist and Yulu Tang
Status: pilots ongoing
Funding: PEDL, ATAI/MITx2, IGCx2, Weiss, and Milton