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Associate and Associate Professor of Management, Department of Management
Expertise: relational contracts, vertical integration, supply chains
07 June 2024
Rocco Macchiavello and Tim Phillips
Which firms are infiltrated by organised crime, and why? We know that organised crime has links to some firms in the legal economy. But how big is this infiltration, and what do they gain from it? Rocco Macchiavello tell... Read more...
08 May 2024
Rocco Macchiavello (CEP, LSE)
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07 November 2023
Organized crime groups (OCGs) invest substantial sums in legal economic activities worldwide. Evidence on these investments is limited due to data scarcity. We introduce a model differentiating contaminated (OCG benefits... Read more...
08 June 2023
21 July 2022
Rocco Macchiavello and Ameet Morjaria
Well-functioning markets allocate assets to owners that improve firms' management and performance. We study the effects of ownership changes on coffee mills in Rwanda - an industry in which managing relationships with fa... Read more...
19 July 2022
Fabrizio Leone, Rocco Macchiavello and Tristan Reed
Prices for several intermediate inputs, including cement, are higher in developing economies - particularly in Africa. Combining data from the International Comparison Program with a global directory of cement plants we ... Read more...
23 June 2022
06 December 2021
14 October 2021
The first part of the talk will be based on this review paper (see link below). In the second part, he hopes to receive feedback on a new, closely related, RCT he is undertaking in partnership with a coffee MNC in Rwanda... Read more...
05 January 2021
How does competition affect market outcomes when formal contracts are not enforceable and parties resort to relational contracts? Difficulties with measuring relational contracts and dealing with the endogeneity of compe... Read more...
02 December 2020
19 February 2020
28 January 2019
Julia Cajal-Grossi, Rocco Macchiavello and Guillermo Noguera
Large international buyers play a key role in global value chains. We exploit detailed transaction-level data on the usage of material inputs to study how Bangladeshi garment suppliers' markups vary across international ... Read more...
04 December 2018
06 December 2017
