Prof. Robert Townsend
Elizabeth and James Killian (1926) Professor of Economics
Primary DLC
Department of Economics
MIT Room:
E52-538
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Theory Including the Revelation Principle
Costly State Verification
Optimal Multiperiod Contracts
Decentralization with Private Information
Money with Spatially Separated Agents
Financial Structure and Growth
Costly State Verification
Optimal Multiperiod Contracts
Decentralization with Private Information
Money with Spatially Separated Agents
Financial Structure and Growth
-
Projects
September 23, 2015Department of Economics
Real Estate Industry, Financial Markets, and Economic Development: Organizing and Utilizing Micro Data to Determine the Interaction of the Real Estate Sector with the Financial Sector, and Their Impacts on the Macro Economy of China
Principal Investigator Robert Townsend
April 6, 2012Department of EconomicsAurepalle Village Project
Principal Investigator Robert Townsend
April 6, 2012Department of EconomicsConsortium on Financial Systems and Poverty (CFSP)
Principal Investigator Robert Townsend
April 6, 2012Department of EconomicsMonetary Theory and Electronic Money
Principal Investigator Robert Townsend
April 6, 2012Department of EconomicsImpact of Financial Services in Mexico
Principal Investigator Robert Townsend
April 6, 2012Department of EconomicsChicago Neighborhoods Project
Principal Investigator Robert Townsend
April 6, 2012Department of EconomicsRainfall Insurance in Rural India
Principal Investigator Robert Townsend
July 13, 2010Department of EconomicsThe Townsend Thai Project
Principal Investigator Robert Townsend
-
Books
Publication date: October 15, 2020BooksDistributed Ledgers: Design and Regulation of Financial Infrastructure and Payment Systems
Publication date: April 11, 2013BooksChronicles from the Field: The Townsend Thai Project
Publication date: April 20, 2011BooksFinancial Systems in Developing Economies