Ameet Morjaria

Ameet Morjaria is an Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.  His research interests are in development economics, organizations and political economy across several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Burundi, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan and Uganda). His current research focuses on understanding the role of commodity exchanges and how to organize agricultural markets, the impact of competition on productivity and relational contracts, industrial policy in emerging markets, the impact of electoral conflict on firm operations, and the political economy of resource management in weak institutionalized economies.