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Prof. Robert Townsend
Elizabeth and James Killian (1926) Professor of Economics
Primary DLC
Department of Economics
MIT Room:
E52-538
(617) 452-3722
rtownsen@mit.edu
https://economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/robert-m-townsend
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
Recent Work
Projects
June 5, 2019
Department of Economics
Designing Purely Weather-Contingent Crop Insurance with Personalized Coverage to Improve Farmers’ Investments in Their Crops for Higher Yields
Principal Investigator
Robert Townsend
September 23, 2015
Department 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, 2012
Department of Economics
Aurepalle Village Project
Principal Investigator
Robert Townsend
April 6, 2012
Department of Economics
Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty (CFSP)
Principal Investigator
Robert Townsend
April 6, 2012
Department of Economics
Monetary Theory and Electronic Money
Principal Investigator
Robert Townsend
April 6, 2012
Department of Economics
Impact of Financial Services in Mexico
Principal Investigator
Robert Townsend
April 6, 2012
Department of Economics
Chicago Neighborhoods Project
Principal Investigator
Robert Townsend
April 6, 2012
Department of Economics
Rainfall Insurance in Rural India
Principal Investigator
Robert Townsend
July 13, 2010
Department of Economics
The Townsend Thai Project
Principal Investigator
Robert Townsend
July 13, 2010
Department of Economics
Enterprise Initiative
Principal Investigator
Robert Townsend
Books
Publication date:
October 15, 2020
Books
Prof. Robert Townsend
Distributed Ledgers: Design and Regulation of Financial Infrastructure and Payment Systems
Publication date:
April 11, 2013
Books
Sombat Sakunthasathien and Rob Jordan,
Prof. Robert Townsend
Chronicles from the Field: The Townsend Thai Project
Publication date:
April 20, 2011
Books
Prof. Robert Townsend
Financial Systems in Developing Economies
Related Faculty
Prof. Abhijit Banerjee
Ford International Professor of Economics
Eryn Heying
Research Associate
Dr. Sara Fisher Ellison
Senior Lecturer