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Distributed Ledgers: Design and Regulation of Financial Infrastructure and Payment Systems

Distributed Ledgers: Design and Regulation of Financial Infrastructure and Payment Systems.

Robert M. Townsend

Journal of Political Economy

Dynamic Bank Expansion: Spatial Growth, Financial Access, and Inequality

Yan Ji, Songyuan Teng, Robert M. Townsend

Journal of Political Economy, 131 (8): 2209-2278, 2023

The Village Money Market Revealed: Financial Access and Credit Chain Links Between Formal and Informal Sectors

Annual Review of Financial Economics, 14 (Nov): 1-20, 2022

A Multi-Currency Exchange and Contracting Platform

IMF Working Paper No. WP/22/217

A Market Based Solution for Fire Sales and Other Pecuniary Externalities

Journal of Political Economy, 129 (4): 981–1010

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