Publications & Papers by Robert M. Townsend

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The Credit Risk Contingency System of an Asian Development Bank

Economic Perspectives 25(3): 31-48
Robert M. Townsend, Jacob Yaron
January 2001

Small Business Finance in Two Chicago Minority Neighborhoods

Economic Perspectives, Second Quarter, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 23: 46-62
Philip Bond, Paul Huck, Sherrie L. W. Rhine, Robert M. Townsend
January 1999
Macroeconomic Dynamics

Liquidity Constraints and Incentive Contracts

Macroeconomic Dynamics 3: 1-47
Andreas Lehnert, Ethan Ligon, Robert M. Townsend
January 1999
Review of Economic Dynamics

General Equilibrium Models of Financial Systems: Theory and Measurement in Village Economies

Review of Economic Dynamics 1(1): 54-118
Youngjae Lim, Robert M. Townsend
January 1998
Review of Economic Dynamics

Mechanism Design and Village Economies: From Credit, to Tenancy, to Cropping Groups

Review of Economic Dynamics 1(1): 119-72
Rolf Mueller, Robert M. Townsend
January 1998
Journal of Financial Services Research

Discrimination in Financial Services: How Should We Proceed?

Journal of Financial Services Research 11: 215–217
Robert M. Townsend
April 1997

Formal and Informal Financial Services

Financial Access in the 21st Century, Proceedings of a Forum, Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, D.C., 17-23
Robert M. Townsend
February 1997

Microenterprise and Macropolicy

Chapter in: Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications, Seventh World Congress, Volume II, David M. Kreps and Kenneth F. Wallis, eds., Cambridge University Press
Robert M. Townsend
January 1997

Formal and Informal Financing in a Chicago Ethnic Neighborhood

Economic Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 3-27
Philip Bond, Robert M. Townsend
January 1996
Quarterly Journal of Economics

Financial Systems in Northern Thai Villages

Quarterly Journal of Economics 110(4): 1011-1046
Robert M. Townsend
November 1995

Consumption Insurance: An Evaluation of Risk-Bearing Systems in Low-Income Economies

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9(3): 83-102
Robert M. Townsend
July 1995

Targeting Credit and Insurance: Efficiency, Mechanism Design, and Program Evaluation

World Bank discussion paper #47, Education and Social Policy Department
Mansoora Rashid, Robert M. Townsend
November 1994
Econometrica

Risk and Insurance in Village India

Econometrica 62(3): 539-591
Robert M. Townsend
May 1994

Community Development Banking and Financial Institutions Act: A Critique with Recommendations

Chapter In The Declining Role of Banking, Proceedings of The 30th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 538-546
Robert M. Townsend
May 1994
The Medieval Village Economy: A Study of the Pareto Mapping in General Equilibrium Models

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Asymmetric Information in General Equilibrium Models

Chapter in In General Equilibrium 40th Anniversary Conference, CORE, 126-134
Robert M. Townsend
June 1993

Understanding the Structure of Village and Regional Economies

Chapter in: Contract Economics, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, Lars Werin and Hans Wijkander (eds): 114-148
Robert M. Townsen
October 1992