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Robert M. Townsend

Global rank #294 99%

Institution: University of Chicago

Primary Field: Theory (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: http://www.robertmtownsend.net

First Publication: 1977

Most Recent: 2017

RePEc ID: pto99 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Last 10 Years 0.00 0.00 0.67 0.00 0.67
All Time 17.43 17.93 5.36 0.00 110.93

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 33
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 40.89

Publications (33)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2017 Human Capital Acquisition and Occupational Choice: Implications for Economic Development Review of Economic Dynamics B 3
2013 Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 6
2012 The Impact of Credit on Village Economies American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 2
2012 Kinship and Financial Networks, Formal Financial Access, and Risk Reduction American Economic Review S 2
2012 Village Economic Accounts: Real and Financial Intertwined American Economic Review S 2
2012 Measuring the return on household enterprise: What matters most for whom? Journal of Development Economics A 2
2011 Information-constrained optima with retrading: An externality and its market-based solution Journal of Economic Theory A 2
2011 Wealth accumulation and factors accounting for success Journal of Econometrics A 2
2011 The Geographic Concentration of Enterprise in Developing Countries Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
2009 Impact of Climate Change on Rice Production in Thailand American Economic Review S 3
2008 Patterns of Rainfall Insurance Participation in Rural India World Bank Economic Review B 3
2008 Endogenous groups and dynamic selection in mechanism design Journal of Economic Theory A 2
2007 Selection into and across credit contracts: Theory and field research Journal of Econometrics A 2
2007 Sources of TFP growth: occupational choice and financial deepening Economic Theory B 2
2006 Dynamic mechanism design with hidden income and hidden actions Journal of Economic Theory A 2
2006 Distinguishing Limited Liability from Moral Hazard in a Model of Entrepreneurship Journal of Political Economy S 3
2006 Firms as Clubs in Walrasian Markets with Private Information Journal of Political Economy S 2
2004 Supplier relationships and small business use of trade credit Journal of Urban Economics A 4
2004 Evaluation of financial liberalization: a general equilibrium model with constrained occupation choice Journal of Development Economics A 2
2004 Entrepreneurship and financial constraints in Thailand Journal of Corporate Finance B 2
2002 Collective Organizations versus Relative Performance Contracts: Inequality, Risk Sharing, and Moral Hazard Journal of Economic Theory A 2
1998 Mechanism Design and Village Economies: From Credit, to Tenancy, to Cropping Groups Review of Economic Dynamics B 2
1998 General Equilibrium Models of Financial Systems: Theory and Measurement in Village Economies Review of Economic Dynamics B 2
1989 Currency and Credit in a Private Information Economy. Journal of Political Economy S 1
1988 Information constrained insurance : The revelation principle extended Journal of Monetary Economics A 1
1987 Economic Organization with Limited Communication. American Economic Review S 1
1987 Asset-return anomalies in a monetary economy Journal of Economic Theory A 1
1983 Financial Structure and Economic Activity. American Economic Review S 1
1983 Forecasting the Forecasts of Others. Journal of Political Economy S 1
1982 Optimal Multiperiod Contracts and the Gain from Enduring Relationships under Private Information. Journal of Political Economy S 1
1979 Optimal contracts and competitive markets with costly state verification Journal of Economic Theory A 1
1978 On the Optimality of Forward Markets. American Economic Review S 1
1977 The eventual failure of price fixing schemes Journal of Economic Theory A 1