Marnie Ginis is a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. She studies firm-state relations in developing countries, with a focus on the politics of production complexity. Ms. Ginis builds a theory of how firms use production complexity to protect their assets from extraction by states. She employs mixed methods, including interviews, survey experiments, and quantitative analysis, in her research. Her work has been supported by the Columbia Center for Political Economy, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and the Center for Development Economics and Policy.
