ROCCO MACCHIAVELLO Research Page 

Professor  

Managerial Economics & Strategy, Department of Management 

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS 

E-MAIL: r dot macchiavello at lse dot ac dot uk  

SKYPE: rocco dot macchiavello 

CV: here

Research:

Working Papers

1. Language Barriers in MNCs and Knowledge Transfers, with Louise Guillouët, Amit K. Khandelwal and Matthieu Teachout, July 2023 [Voxdev]

2. Union Leaders: Experimental Evidence from Myanmar, with Laura Boudreau, Virginia Minni and Mari Tanaka, June 2023 (R&R American Economic Review) 

3. The falling price of cement in Africa with Fabrizio Leone and Tristan Reed, June 2023 (R&R AEJ: Applied) 

4. Relational Collusion in the Colombian Electricity Market, with Mario Bernasconi, Miguel Espinosa and Carlos Suarez, April 2023

5. Layoffs and Productivity at a Bangladeshi Sweater Factory, with Robby Akerlof, Anik Ashraf, and Atonu Rabbani, October 2022

6. Acquisitions, Management and Efficiency in the Rwanda's Coffee Industry, with Ameet Morjaria, June 2022

7. Challenges of Change: An Experiment Training Women to Manage in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector, with Andreas Menzel, Atonu Rabbani and Christopher Woodruff, July 2020 (R&R Econometrica) 

8. Buyer-Driven Upgrading in GVCs: The Sustainable Quality Program in Colombia, with Pepita Miquel-Florensa, August 2019 [Voxdev]

9. Vertical Integration and Inter-Firm Relationships: Evidence from the Costa Rica Coffee Chain, with Pepita Miquel-Florensa, June 2018 (Rej&R Restud)

10. Development Uncorked: Reputation Acquisition in the New Market for Chilean Wines in the UK, June 2010 

Publications (Peer Reviewed)

1. Supply Chain Disruptions and Sourcing Strategies, with Julia Cajla-Grossi and Davide Del Prete, International Journal of Industrial Organization, forthcoming

2. Global Value Chains in Developing Countries: a Relational Perspective from Coffee and Garments, with Laura Boudreau and Julia Cajal-Grossi, June 2023, Journal of Economic Perspectives, forthcoming

3. Relational Contracts: Recent Empirical Advances and Open Questions, with Ameet Morjaria, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics [Special Issue on Relational Contracts], forthcoming

4. Buyers' Sourcing and Suppliers' Markups in Bangladeshi Garments, with Julia Cajal-Grossi and Guillermo Noguera, August 2022,  Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming [Voxdev]

5. Empirical Industrial Organization Economics to Analyze Developing Country Food Value Chains, with Thomas Reardon and Timothy Richards, Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2022, 14, pp.193-220 

6. Empirical Approaches to Trust and Relational Contracts, with Ameet Morjaria, International Journal of Industrial Organization, (2022) 84.  

7. Relational Contracts and Development, Annual Review of Economics, August 2022, 14 pp. 337-362. 

8. Electoral Violence and Supply Chain Disruptions in Kenya's Floriculture Industry Disruptions , with Chris Ksoll and Ameet Morjaria, Review of Economics and Statistics 2022, Mar 11: 1-45 [Kellogg Inisghts]

9. Competition and Relational Contracts in the Rwanda Coffee Chain, with Ameet Morjaria, November 2020, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 136, Issue 2, May 2021, Pages 1089–1143.  [Voxdev, Kellogg Insights]

10. Strategic Default in the International Coffee Market, with Arthur Blouin, 2019 The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 134(2), pp.895-951 [Voxdev]

11. Demand and Supply of Infrequent Payments as Commitment Device: Evidence from the Kenya Dairy Industry, with Lorenzo Casaburi, American Economic Review, February 2019 [Voxdev]

12. The Value of Relationships: Evidence from a Supply Shock to Kenya Rose Exports, with Ameet Morjaria, 2015, American Economic Review, 105(9), pp.2911-45 [MicroInsights]

13. Financing Experimentation (with Mikhail Drugov), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 6(1): 315-49, 2014

14. Financial Development and Vertical Integration: Theory and Evidence, Journal of the European Economic Association 10.2 (2012): 255-289.

15. Vertical Integration and Investor Protection in Developing Countries, Journal of Development Economics, 93-2: 162–172, November 2010

16. Public Sector Motivation and Development Failures, Journal of Development Economics, 86-1: 201-213, April 2008

Publications (Non-Peer Reviewed)

1. A Mutually Beneficial Relationship: Relational Contracts in Developing Countries in Claude Menard and Mary Shirley (eds.) The Research Agenda in New Institutional Economics. Northampton & Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Pub., 2018.

2. Loyalty, Exit and Enforcement: Evidence from a Kenya Dairy Cooperative (with Lorenzo Casaburi), American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, May 2015

3. The Market for Training Services: A Demand Experiment with Bangladeshi Garment Factories (with A. Rabbani and C. Woodruff), American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, May 2015