Daniel Keniston

Daniel Keniston is an Associate Professor at Louisiana State University. Prior to this he was an assistant professor of Economics at Yale University. His research focuses largely on the role and structure of markets in developing countries, with other interests in governance, technology adoption, and economic history. He has worked in the Caribbean, Africa, and South Asia, with particular emphasis on India. He finished his BA at Yale in 2004 and his PhD at MIT in 2011.

Productivity and competition in India’s brick industry
Firm productivity has long been considered a key driver of economic growth. Yet there is little understanding of why the competition and innovation that fuels productivity growth in the developed world seems lower in low- and middle-income countries. When many firms show low productivity and use inferior technologies even when more efficient ones are available
