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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
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
Ms. Jean Tirole
Visiting Professor of Economics
Prof. Stephen Morris
Peter A Diamond Professor in Economics
Prof. Isaiah Smith Andrews
Charles E and Susan T Harris Professor of Economics