Robert M. Townsend

Names

first:	Robert
middle:	M.
last:	Townsend

Contact

homepage:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~rtownsen/

Affiliations

• University of Chicago → Department of Economics
  • website
  • location: Chicago, Illinois (United States)

Research profile

author of:

• Economic Organization with Limited Communication. (article, details)
  by Townsend, Robert M.
• Pareto Optima and Competitive Equilibria with Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard. (article, details)
  by Prescott, Edward C. & Townsend, Robert M.
• Resource Allocation under Asymmetric Information. (article, details)
  by Harris Milton & Townsend, Robert M.
• Dynamic mechanism design with hidden income and hidden actions (article, details)
  by Doepke, Matthias & Townsend, Robert M.
• Evaluation of financial liberalization: a general equilibrium model with constrained occupation choice (article, details)
  by Gine, Xavier & Townsend, Robert M.
• Dynamic Mechanism Design with Hidden Income and Hidden Auctions (paper, details)
  by Doepke, Matthias & Townsend, Robert M.
• Evaluation of financial liberalization : a general equilibrium model with constrained occupation choice (paper, details)
  by Gine, Xavier & Townsend, Robert M.
• Consumption Insurance: An Evaluation of Risk-Bearing Systems in Low-Income Economies. (article, details)
  by Townsend, Robert M.
• Financial Systems in Northern Thai Villages. (article, details)
  by Townsend, Robert M.
• Collective Organizations versus Relative Performance Contracts: Inequality, Risk Sharing, and Moral Hazard (article, details)
  by Prescott, Edward Simpson & Townsend, Robert M.
• Computing Multi-period, Information-Constrained Optima. (article, details)
  by Phelan, Christopher & Townsend, Robert M.
• Currency and Credit in a Private Information Economy. (article, details)
  by Townsend, Robert M.
• On the Optimality of Forward Markets. (article, details)
  by Townsend, Robert M.
• General Competitive Analysis in an Economy with Private Information. (article, details)
  by Prescott, Edward C. & Townsend, Robert M.
• Community development banking and Financial Institutions Act: a critique with recommendations (article, details)
  by Robert M. Townsend
• Financial Structure and Economic Activity. (article, details)
  by Townsend, Robert M.
• Optimal Multiperiod Contracts and the Gain from Enduring Relationships under Private Information. (article, details)
  by Townsend, Robert M.
• Liquidity Constraints and Incentive Contracts. (article, details)
  by Lehnert, Andreas & Ligon, Ethan & Townsend, Robert M.
• Forecasting the Forecasts of Others. (article, details)
  by Townsend, Robert M.
• Intermediation with Costly Bilateral Exchange. (article, details)
  by Townsend, Robert M.
• Models as Economies. (article, details)
  by Townsend, Robert M.
• Market Anticipations, Rational Expectations, and Bayesian Analysis. (article, details)
  by Townsend, Robert M.
• Risk and Insurance in Village India. (article, details)
  by Townsend, Robert M.
• Introduction (Chapter1), "Key Elements and Patterns in Theory and Early European History" (paper, details)
  by Robert M. Townsend
• Dynamic Mechanism Design With Hidden Income and Hidden Actions (paper, details)
  by Matthias Doepke & Robert M. Townsend
• Discovering the Sources of TFP Growth: Occupational Choice and Financial Deepening (paper, details)
  by Hyeok Jeong & Robert M. Townsend
• Firms as clubs in Walrasian markets with private information (paper, details)
  by Edward S. Prescott & Robert M. Townsend
• The credit risk-contingency system of an Asian development bank (article, details)
  by Robert M. Townsend & Jacob Yaron
• Growth and Inequality: Model Evaluation Based on an Estimation-Calibration Strategy (paper, details)
  by Hyeok Jeong & Robert M. Townsend
• Dynamic Mecanism Design with Hidden Income and Hidden Actions: Technical Appendix (paper, details)
  by Matthias Doepke & Robert M. Townsend
• Firms as clubs in Walrasian markets with private information : technical appendix (paper, details)
  by Edward Simpson Prescott & Robert M. Townsend
• Theory of the firm: applied mechanism design (paper, details)
  by Edward Simpson Prescott & Robert M. Townsend
• Mechanism design and assignment models (paper, details)
  by Edward S. Prescott & Robert M. Townsend
• Discovering the Sources of TFP Growth: Occupation Choice, Capital Heterogeneity, and Financial Deepening (paper, details)
  by Robert M. Townsend & Hyeok Jeong
• Understanding the Structure of Village and Regional Economics (paper, details)
  by Robert M. Townsend
• Entrepreneurship and financial constraints in Thailand (article, details)
  by Paulson, Anna L. & Townsend, Robert
• General Equilibrium Models of Financial Systems: Theory and Measurement in Village Economies (paper, details)
  by Lim, Y. & Townsend, R. M.
• Risk and Insurance in Village India (paper, details)
  by Robert M. Townsend
• Supplier relationships and small business use of trade credit (article, details)
  by Aaronson, Daniel & Bostic, Raphael W. & Huck, Paul & Townsend, Robert
• Policies and Impact: An Analysis of Village-Level Microfinance Institutions (article, details)
  by Joseph P. Kaboski & Robert M. Townsend
• Risk and Insurance in Village India. (paper, details)
  by Townsend, R. M.
• Sources of TFP Growth: Occupational Choice and Financial Deepening (paper, details)
  by Hyeok Jeong & Robert M. Townsend
• Computing Multiperiod, Information-Constrained Optima. (paper, details)
  by Phelan, C. & Townsend, R. M.
• A comparison of small business finance in two Chicago minority neighborhoods (article, details)
  by Paul Huck & Sherrie Rhine & Robert Townsend & Philip Bond
• Firm Entry and Finance: Distinguishing Information Regimes (paper, details)
  by Robert Townsend & Alexander Karaivanov
• Small-business access to trade credit: some evidence of ethnic differences (paper, details)
  by Daniel Aaronson & Paul Huck & Robert Townsend
• Optimal contracts and competitive markets with costly state verification (paper, details)
  by Robert Townsend
• How do minorities fund small business start-ups? Two Chicago neighborhoods offer insight (article, details)
  by Paul Kuck & Robert Townsend & Philip Bond
• Supplier relationships and small business use of trade credit (paper, details)
  by Daniel Aaronson & Raphael Bostic & Paul Huck & Robert Townsend
• Understanding the Structure of Village and Regional Economies. (paper, details)
  by Townsend, R. M.
• Selection into and across Credit Contracts: Theory and Field Research (paper, details)
  by Christian Ahlin & Robert Townsend
• Small business access to trade credit: some evidence of ethnic differences (article, details)
  by Daniel Aaronson & Paul Huck & Robert Townsend
• Using Repayment Data to Test Across Models of Joint Liability Lending (paper, details)
  by Christian Ahlin & Robert Townsend
• Mechanism Design and Village Economies: From Credit, to Tenancy, to Cropping Groups (article, details)
  by Robert Townsend & Rolf Mueller
• Small business finance in two Chicago minority neighborhoods (article, details)
  by Paul Huck & Sherrie L. W. Rhine & Philip Bond & Robert Townsend
• A model of circulating private debt (paper, details)
  by Robert Townsend & Neil Wallace
• General Equilibrium Models of Financial Systems: Theory and Measurement in Village Economies (article, details)
  by Youngjae Lim & Robert Townsend
• Formal and informal financing in a Chicago neighborhood (article, details)
  by Philip Bond & Robert Townsend
• Micro Enterprise and Macro Policy. (paper, details)
  by Townsend, R.
• Distinguishing limited commitment from moral hazard in models of growth with inequality (paper, details)
  by Anna L. Paulson & Robert Townsend
• Microcredit And Mechanism Design (article, details)
  by Robert M. Townsend
• Optimal contracts and competitive markets with costly state verification (article, details)
  by Townsend, Robert M.
• Financial Deepening, Inequality, and Growth: A Model-Based Quantitative Evaluation (paper, details)
  by Robert M. Townsend & Kenichi Ueda
• The eventual failure of price fixing schemes (article, details)
  by Townsend, Robert M.
• Financial Deepening, Inequality, and Growth: A Model-Based Quantitative Evaluation-super-1 (article, details)
  by ROBERT M. TOWNSEND & KENICHI UEDA
• Information constrained insurance : The revelation principle extended (article, details)
  by Townsend, Robert M.
• Asset-return anomalies in a monetary economy (article, details)
  by Townsend, Robert M.
• Private Information and Intertemporal Job Assignments-super-1 (article, details)
  by EDWARD SIMPSON PRESCOTT & TOWNSEND