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[PDF] Optimal contracts and competitive markets with costly state verification

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R Townsend - Journal of Economic theory, 1979 - bc.edu
The insight of Arrow [4] and Debreu [7] that uncertainty is easily incorporated into general
equilibrium models is double-edged. It is true that one need only index commodities by the
state of nature, and classical results on the existence and optimality of competitive ...
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Risk and insurance in village India

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RM Townsend - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 1994 - JSTOR
Page 1. Econometrica, Vol. 62, No. 3 (May, 1994), 539-591 RISK AND INSURANCE IN VILLAGE
INDIA BY ROBERT M. TOWNSENDI The full insurance model is tested using data from three
poor, high risk villages in the semi-arid tropics of southern India. ...
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Resource allocation under asymmetric information

M Harris… - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric …, 1981 - JSTOR
Page 1. Econoinetrica, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Januarv, 1981) RESOURCE ALLOCATION'
UNDER ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION BY MILTON HARRIS AND ROBERT M.
TOWNSEND The purpose of this paper is to provide a method ...
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Pareto optima and competitive equilibria with adverse selection and moral hazard

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EC Prescott… - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric …, 1984 - JSTOR
Page 1. Econometrica, Vol. 52, No. 1 (January, 1984) PARETO OPTIMA AND
COMPETITIVE EQUILIBRIA WITH ADVERSE SELECTION AND MORAL HAZARD'
BY EDWARD C. PRESCOTT AND ROBERT M. TOWNSEND This ...
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Consumption insurance: An evaluation of risk-bearing systems in low-income economies

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RM Townsend - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1995 - JSTOR
Page 1. Journal of Economic Perspectives- Volume 9, Number 3-Summer 1995-Pages
83-102 Consumption Insurance: An Evaluation of Risk-Bearing Systems in Low-Income
Economies Robert M. Townsend p eople face substantial ...
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Forecasting the forecasts of others

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RM Townsend - The Journal of Political Economy, 1983 - JSTOR
Page 1. Forecasting the Forecasts of Others Robert M. Townsend Carnegi-Me-le/
lo University This paper explores the Formulation and analysis of linear equilib- rium
models of investment in which learning is perpetual and infor ...
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[PDF] Models of money with spatially separated agents

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RM Townsend - Models of monetary economies, 1980 - mpls.frb.org
Page 1. Models of Money With Spatially Separated Agents Robert M. Townsend* 1.
Introduction This paper presents three models which explain the observation that money
is used in payment for commodities and barter is not prevalent. ...
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Computing multi-period, information-constrained optima

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C Phelan… - The Review of Economic Studies, 1991 - JSTOR
Page 1. Review of Economic Studies (1991) 58, 853-881 0034-6527/91/00500853$02.00 ? 1991
The Review of Economic Studies Limited Computing Multi-Period, Information-Constraine Optima
CHRISTOPHER PHELAN and ROBERT M. TOWNSEND University of Chicago ...
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Optimal multiperiod contracts and the gain from enduring relationships under private information

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RM Townsend - The Journal of Political Economy, 1982 - JSTOR
Page 1. Optimal Multiperiod Contracts and the Gain from Enduring Relationships under Private
Information Robert M. Townsend Carnegie-Mellon University Informational asymmetries can
play a key role in explaining the existence and nature of multiperiod contracts. ...
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General competitive analysis in an economy with private information

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EC Prescott… - International Economic Review, 1984 - JSTOR
Page 1. INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC February, 1984 RE IEWV Vol. 25, No. I
GENERAL COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS IN AN ECONOMY WITH PRIVATE INFORMATION*
BY EDWARD C. PRESCOTT AND ROBERT M. TOWNSEND' ...
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Financial systems in northern Thai villages

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RM Townsend - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1995 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Page 1. FINANCIAL SYSTEMS IN NORTHERN THAI VILLAGES* ROBERT M. TOWNSEND Field
research attempted to measure the risky environments, the information structures, the institutions,
and the risk-response mechanisms of ten villages in northern Thailand. ...
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Using Repayment Data to Test Across Models of Joint Liability Lending*

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C Ahlin… - The Economic Journal, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
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Economic organization with limited communication

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RM Townsend - The American Economic Review, 1987 - JSTOR
Page 1. Economic Organization with Limited Communication By ROBERT M.
TOWNSEND* This paper presents formal, stylized representations of communication-
accounting systems: oral assignment, portable object, written ...
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Entrepreneurship and financial constraints in Thailand

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AL Paulson… - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2004 - Elsevier
We use new data from rural and semi-urban Thailand to examine how financial constraints
affect entrepreneurial activity. The analysis uses nonparametric and reduced form
techniques. The results indicate that financial constraints play an important role in shaping ...
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Market anticipations, rational expectations, and Bayesian analysis

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RM Townsend - International Economic Review, 1978 - JSTOR
Page 1. INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW Vol. 19, No. 2, June, 1978 MARKET
ANTICIPATIONS, RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS, AND BAYESIAN ANALYSIS* BY
ROBERT M. TOWNSEND1 1. INTRODUCTION Muth [1961 ...
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[BOOK] Reinventing leadership: Strategies to empower the organization

WG Bennis… - 2005 - books.google.com
At a time when the business world is more frenetic and more complex than ever, two of
America's foremost experts on leadership come together to discuss the vital challenges and
opportunities facing every professional. By examining the styles of today's most successful ...
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Intermediation with costly bilateral exchange

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RM Townsend - The Review of Economic Studies, 1978 - JSTOR
Page 1. Intermediation with Costly Bilateral Exchange ROBERT M. TOWNSEND
Carnegie-Mellon University 1. INTRODUCTION This paper was motivated in part by
questions of optimal regulation of financial institutions such as intermediaries. ...
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Policies and Impact: An Analysis of Village‐Level Microfinance Institutions

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JP Kaboski… - Journal of the European …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. “zwu0202” — 2005/2/2 — page 1 — #1 POLICIES AND IMPACT: AN
ANALYSIS OF VILLAGE-LEVEL MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS Joseph P. Kaboski
Ohio State University Robert M. Townsend University of Chicago ...
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Evaluation of financial liberalization: a general equilibrium model with constrained occupation choice

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X Giné… - Journal of Development Economics, 2004 - Elsevier
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Financial structure and economic activity

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RM Townsend - The American Economic Review, 1983 - JSTOR
Page 1. Financial Structure and Economic Activity By ROBERT M. TOWNSEND* A
recent development in economic science is the attempt to integrate monetary theory
with the theory of general economic equi- librium. This work ...
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Distinguishing limited liability from moral hazard in a model of entrepreneurship

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AL Paulson, RM Townsend… - Journal of Political Economy, 2006 - JSTOR
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Currency and credit in a private information economy

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RM Townsend - The Journal of Political Economy, 1989 - JSTOR
Page 1. Currency and Credit in a Private Information Economy Robert M. Townsend University
of Chicago In an environment with private information, spatial separation, and limited
communication, a currency-like object and more standard named credits can be distinguished. ...
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[BOOK] The Medieval Village Economy

RM Townsend - 1993 - jserra.edlioschool.com
Sample Parenthetical-Works Cited Matching. Sample book parenthetical: Medieval Europe was
a place both of “raids, pillages, slavery, and extortion” and of “traveling merchants, monetary
exchange, towns if not cities, and active markets in grain” (_____). Source: ...
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[BOOK] Barriers to household risk management: evidence from India

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S Cole, X Giné, J Tobacman, P Topalova… - 2010 - nber.org
... Xavier Giné World Bank DECRG Jeremy Tobacman University of Pennsylvania Wharton School
Petia Topalova IMF Robert Townsend MIT Economics Department James Vickery Federal Reserve
Bank of New York First version: August 16, 2008 This version: April 4, 2009 ...
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Information constrained insurance: The revelation principle extended

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RM Townsend - Journal of Monetary Economics, 1988 - Elsevier
Private information induced incentive constraints can cause allocations to diverge from
full information optimal allocations, often in the direction of limited.
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[BOOK] Agricultural incentives in Sub-Saharan Africa: policy challenges

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... Organization Zimbabwe Fertilizer Company Xlll Page 16. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The
report was prepared by Robert Townsend under the guidance of Charles Humphreys
and Hans Binswanger. The work also benefited significantly ...
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Financial Deepening, Inequality, and Growth: A Model‐Based Quantitative Evaluation1

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RM Townsend… - Review of Economic Studies, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
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Sources of TFP growth: Occupational choice and financial deepening

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H Jeong… - Economic Theory, 2007 - Springer
Page 1. Economic Theory (2007) 32: 179–221 DOI 10.1007/s00199-006-0201-8
SYMPOSIUM Hyeok Jeong · Robert M. Townsend Sources of TFP growth:
occupational choice and financial deepening Received: 27 November ...
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Patterns of rainfall insurance participation in rural India

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X Giné, R Townsend… - The World Bank Economic Review, 2008 - World Bank
Abstract Take-up of an innovative rainfall insurance policy offered to smallholder farmers in
rural India decreases with basis risk between insurance payouts and income fluctuations,
increases with household wealth, and decreases with binding credit constraints. These ...
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General equilibrium models of financial systems: theory and measurement in village economies

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Y Lim… - Review of Economic Dynamics, 1998 - Elsevier
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Dynamic mechanism design with hidden income and hidden actions

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M Doepke… - Journal of Economic Theory, 2006 - Elsevier
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Asset-return anomalies in a monetary economy

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RM Townsend - Journal of Economic Theory, 1987 - Elsevier
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[CITATION] Further up the organization

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[CITATION] Targeting credit and insurance: Efficiency, mechanism design, and program evaluation

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[CITATION] Theories of intermediated structures

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RM Townsend - Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public …, 1983 - ideas.repec.org
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[CITATION] Arrow-Debreu programs as microfoundations of macroeconomics

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[BOOK] Transitional growth with increasing inequality and financial deepening

RM Townsend… - 2001 - books.google.com
Page 1. Working Paper A INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Page 2. Working Paper
A INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Page 3. WP/O1/108 ||\/IF Working Paper
Transitional Growth With Increasing Inequality and Financial ...
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[PDF] Farm size, productivity and returns to scale in agriculture revisited: a case study of wine producers in South Africa

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RF Townsend, J Kirsten… - Agricultural Economics, 1998 - 137.215.9.22
Page 1. Farm size, productivity and returns to scale in agriculture revisited: a case study of wine
producers in South Africa RF Townsend, JF Kirsten, N. Vink 1. Introduction Is another paper
on the relationship between farm size and productivity necessary? ...
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Firms as clubs in Walrasian markets with private information

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ES Prescott… - Journal of Political Economy, 2006 - JSTOR
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Growth and inequality: Model evaluation based on an estimation-calibration strategy

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H Jeong… - Macroeconomic dynamics, 2008 - Cambridge Univ Press
Page 1. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 12 (Supplement 2), 2008, 231–284. Printed in the United
States of America. doi:10.1017/S1365100507070149 GROWTH AND INEQUALITY: MODEL
EVALUATION BASED ON AN ESTIMATION-CALIBRATION STRATEGY ...
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[BOOK] Up the organization: How to stop the corporation from stifling people and strangling profits

RC Townsend, RL Townsend… - 2007 - books.google.com
Page 1. UP THE ORGANIZATION* - *How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People
and Strangling Profits Commemorative Edition Robert Townsend Foreword by Warren
Bennis John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Page 2. Page 3. UP ...
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Selection into and across credit contracts: theory and field research

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C Ahlin… - Journal of Econometrics, 2007 - Elsevier
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[BOOK] Patterns of rainfall insurance participation in rural India

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X Gine, R Townsend, J Vickery… - 2007 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper describes the contract design and institutional features of an innovative
rainfall insurance policy offered to small-holder farmers in rural India, and presents
preliminary evidence on the determinants of insurance participation. Insurance take-up is ...
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Statistical analysis of rainfall insurance payouts in southern India

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X Giné, R Townsend… - American Journal of …, 2007 - ajae.oxfordjournals.org
With this principle in mind, the goal of rainfall index insurance is to allow households,
groups, and governments to reduce their exposure to weather risk by purchasing a contract that
pays an indemnity during periods of deficient (or excessive) rainfall. Advocates argue that ...
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Policy‐induced Innovation in Sub‐Saharan African Agriculture: A Multilateral Malmquist Productivity Index Approach

C Thirtle, D Hadley… - Development Policy …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
To meet the [African] crisis one must turn to agricultural-led growth. But, based on historical
experience, an agricultural-led strategy must be framed in no less than a twenty-year
horizon and must entail a combination of technological innovation, policy reform, and ...
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The eventual failure of price fixing schemes

RM Townsend - Journal of Economic Theory, 1977 - Elsevier
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Induced innovation in United States agriculture, 1880–1990: time series tests and an error correction model

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CG Thirtle, DE Schimmelpfennig… - American Journal of …, 2002 - ajae.oxfordjournals.org
... Development, University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa; David Schimmelpfennig is an
agricultural economist with the Resource Economics Division, Economic Research Service, United
States Department of Agri- culture, Washington, DC; and Robert Townsend is an ...
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The impacts of credit on village economies

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J Kaboski… - … of Economics Working Paper No. 09-13, 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper evaluates the short-term impact of Thailand's' Million Baht Village
Fund'program, among the largest scale government microfinance initiatives in the world,
using pre-and post-program panel data and quasi-experimental cross-village variation in ...
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[BOOK] Financial deepening, inequality, and growth: A model-based quantitative evaluation

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RM Townsend… - 2003 - books.google.com
Page 1. Working Paper A INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Page 2. Working Paper
A INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Page 3. WP/03/ 193 \|\/IF Working Paper
Financial Deepening, Inequality, and Growth: A Model-Based ...
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Collective organizations versus relative performance contracts: Inequality, risk sharing, and moral hazard

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ES Prescott… - Journal of Economic Theory, 2002 - Elsevier
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[CITATION] Financial structure and economic organization

RM Townsend… - 1990 - blackwellpublishing.com
WILEY. KNOWLEDGE FOR GENERATIONS. WILEY - KNOWLEDGE FOR
GENERATIONS United States Change Location. Home; Subjects; About Wiley. CART |
MY ACCOUNT | CONTACT US | HELP. Wiley.com. Click to Close. ...
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On the optimality of forward markets

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RM Townsend - The American Economic Review, 1978 - JSTOR
Page 1. On the Optimality of Forward Markets By ROBERT M. TOWNSEND* Kenneth
Arrow's seminal article on the role of securities in the optimal allocation of risk bearing
provided a convenient framework in which problems ...
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[CITATION] Allocation mechanisms for asymmetrically informed agents

M Harris… - 1978
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A Structural Evaluation of a Large‐Scale Quasi‐Experimental Microfinance Initiative

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JP Kaboski… - Econometrica, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. Econometrica, Vol. 79, No. 5 (September, 2011), 1357–1406 A STRUCTURAL
EVALUATION OF A LARGE-SCALE QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL MICROFINANCE INITIATIVE
BY JOSEPH P. KABOSKI AND ROBERT M. TOWNSEND1 ...
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Mechanism design and village economies: From credit to tenancy to cropping groups

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RM Townsend… - Review of Economic Dynamics, 1998 - Elsevier
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[PDF] Equilibrium under uncertainty: Multiagent statistical decision theory

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EC Prescott… - Bayesian Analysis in economics …, 1980 - robertmtownsend.net
Page 1. Equilibrium under Uncertainty: Multi-Agent Statistical Decision Theory- Edward C. Prescott
and Robert M. Townsend iH revised June 1978 I This essay is to appear in Studies in Bayesian
Econometrics and Statistics in Honor of Harold Jeffreys, edited by Arnold Zellner. ...
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The measurement of productive efficiency in UK building societies

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J Piesse… - Applied Financial Economics, 1995 - Taylor & Francis
This study applies data envelopment analysis (DEA) to 1992 accounting data for 57 UK
building societies. DEA allows productive efficiency to be measured without specifying a
functional form and without imposing any behavioural assumptions, which is particularly ...
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Is livestock research unproductive? Separating health maintenance from improvement research

R Townsend… - Agricultural Economics, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Studies of the rates of return to research have usually been based on the implicit
assumption that if there were no research, then there would be neither growth nor decline in
output or productivity. In the case of livestock, particularly in southern Africa, which has a ...
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[CITATION] Allocation Mechanisms, Asymmetric Information, and the'Revelation Principle'

M Harris, RM Townsend - Issues in …, 1985 - Albany: State University of New York …
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[CITATION] Borrowing and lending in semi-urban and rural Thailand

J Kaboski… - Manuscript. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1998
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Accounting for productivity differences in European agriculture: cointegration, multilateral TFPs and R&D spillovers.

C Thirtle, VE Ball, JC Bureau… - … : market forces and …, 1995 - cabdirect.org
Abstract This paper reports and compares multilateral total factor productivity (TFP)
calculations for ten EU countries and the USA. It goes on to use data for the same countries
to compare the values of the elasticities of the determining variables, with and without ...
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Liquidity constraints and incentive contracts

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A Lehnert, E Ligon… - Macroeconomic …, 1999 - Cambridge Univ Press
Page 1. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 3, 1999, 1–47. Printed in the United States of
America. LIQUIDITY CONSTRAINTS AND INCENTIVE CONTRACTS ANDREAS
LEHNERT Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ...
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Supplier relationships and small business use of trade credit

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D Aaronson, RW Bostic, P Huck… - Journal of Urban …, 2004 - Elsevier
This paper establishes some unique descriptive statistics about supplier relationships and
the use of trade credit among minority small businesses and documents the importance that
ethnic and geographic supplier ties play. Using data from a survey of small businesses in ...
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Determining the contribution of agricultural production to household nutritional status in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa

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J Kirsten, R Townsend… - Development Southern Africa, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
Anthropometric indicators were used to assess the nutritional status of rural households in
the former KwaZulu homeland of South Africa. Using these measures, households with
stunted children were identified and the characteristics of these households examined, ...
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[CITATION] Currency, transaction patterns, and consumption smoothing: theory and measurement in ICRISAT villages

Y Lim… - Chicago: Univeristy of Chicago, 1994
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Models as economies

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RM Townsend - The Economic Journal, 1988 - JSTOR
Page 1. The Economic Journal, 98 (Conference I988), I-24 Printed in Great Britain
MODELS AS ECONOMIES Robert M. Townsend To begin I would like you to consider
five economies. As I describe each of them, I would like ...
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[PDF] Rational expectations? Evidence from planting decisions in semi-arid India

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X Giné, RM Townsend… - Manuscript. World Bank, …, 2007 - ipl.econ.duke.edu
Page 1. Rational Expectations? Evidence from Planting Decisions in Semi-Arid India Xavier Giné,
Robert M. Townsend, and James Vickery BREAD Working Paper No. 166 March 2008 © Copyright
2008 Xavier Giné, Robert M. Townsend, and James Vickery BREAD ...
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Microcredit and mechanism design

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RM Townsend - Journal of the European Economic …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. MICROCREDIT AND MECHANISM DESIGN Robert M. Townsend University
of Chicago Abstract Individual microcredit loans are not necessarily simple fixed
debt obligations, but rather may have contingencies and ...
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[CITATION] A multilateral Malmquist Productivity Index approach to explaining agricultural growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

C Thirtle, D Hadley… - Development Policy Review, 1995
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[CITATION] Entrepreneurship and liquidity constraints in rural Thailand

A Paulson… - University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Processed, 2000
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Circulating private debt: an example with a coordination problem

R Townsend… - Contractual Arrangements for …, 1987 - robertmtownsend.net
We use a model of pure, intertemporal exchange with spatially and informationally
separated markets to explain the existence of private securities that circulate and, hence,
play a prominent role in exchange. The model, which utilizes a perfect-foresight ...
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Strongman events and strength and conditioning programs

M Waller, T Piper… - Strength & Conditioning Journal, 2003 - journals.lww.com
STRONGMAN COMPETITIONS have become very popular and are televised frequently on
cable sports channels. Although entertaining, some of these events can be used or modified
for strength and conditioning programs. These events not only address strength, but also ...
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Strike Violence: The Need for Federal Injunctions

FH Stewart, RJ Townsend - U. Pa. L. Rev., 1965 - HeinOnline
Page 1. University of Pennsylvania Law Review FOUNDED 1852 Formerly American Law
Register VOL. 114 FEBRUARY 1966 No. 4 STRIKE VIOLENCE: THE NEED FOR FEDERAL
INJUNCTIONS FRANK H. STEWART f & ROBERT J. TowNsED * ...
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[PDF] The nature of financial constraints: distinguishing the micro underpinnings of macro models

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A Paulson… - Manuscript. University of …, 2001 - itservices.uchicago.edu
Abstract We use non-parametric, reduced form and structural techniques to distinguish the
micro-economic foundations of three models of growth with increasing inequality using new
data from rural and semi-urban households in Thailand. The three models we consider ( ...
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Thinking, problem-solving, and pragmatic verbal analysis

S Hayes, E Gifford, R Townsend… - Relational Frame …, 2002 - Springer
Human relational abilities are profoundly practical. They are germinated in the greenhouse
of conventional social behavior as established by a language community, but they grow in
the light of a life lived in and with a nonarbitrary world. The preceding chapter began to ...
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[PDF] An evaluation of safety nets and financial institutions in crisis and growth

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M Alem… - Mimeograph: University of …, 2003 - blog.robertmtownsend.net
Page 1. 1 An Evaluation of Safety Nets and Financial Institutions in Crisis and Growth *
Mauro Alem and Robert M. Townsend ∗ Revised August 2004 Abstract The theory
of the optimal allocation of risk and some unusual panel ...
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[CITATION] An Evaluation of Models of Growth and Inequality

H Jeong… - Manuscript. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2000
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Private information and intertemporal job assignments

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[CITATION] Households as corporate firms: an analysis of household finance using integrated household surveys and corporate financial accounting

K Samphantharak… - Recherche, 2010 - lavoisier.fr
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[PDF] Safety nets and financial institutions in the Asian crisis: the allocation of within-country risk

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R Townsend - … Monetary Fund. Prepared for the IMF …, 2002 - itservices.uchicago.edu
During the financial crisis in Asian countries such as Thailand, macro-economic aggregates
were used to portray the health or state of the impacted economy. Negative GDP growth was
taken to indicate a fall in household welfare, for example. Initially high interest rate policies ...
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Transit Accessibility as a Determinant of Automobile Ownership

RT Dunphy - Highway Research Record, 1973 - trid.trb.org
Abstract: AUTOMOBILE OWNERSHIP IS GENERALLY ACCEPTED AS THE MOST
IMPORTANT DETERMINANT OF THE NUMBER OF TRIPS MADE BY RESIDENTS OF A
TRAFFIC ZONE. FOR THIS REASON, THE WAY IN WHICH IT IS FORECAST CAN HAVE ...
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Changing relationships, changing values in the American classroom

RB Townsend - New Directions for Higher Education, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. Although administrators describe the use of adjunct faculty as allowing their institutions
to teach more for less, it has instead become a way to earn more in tuition revenue while providing
less in education. NEW DIRECTIONS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION, no. ...
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Households as corporate firms: constructing financial statements from integrated household surveys

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K Samphantharak… - 2006 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We use and modify the rigorous standards of corporate financial accounting to
create the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows for households in
developing countries. The purpose is to better measure productivity, risk, financing, and ...
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[CITATION] Assets in Semi-Urban and Rural Thailand

E Seiler… - Manuscript. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1998
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[PDF] Models of Growth and Inequality: an evaluation

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H Jeong… - manuscript, University of …, 2002 - itservices.uchicago.edu
Page 1. Econometric Society European Meeting 2002 (Venice) Models of Growth and Inequality:
An Evaluation Hyeok Jeong University of Southern California and Robert M. Townsend University
of Chicago August 2002 (In Progress) Page 2. 1. Goals of Paper ...
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WELFARE GAINS FROM FINANCIAL LIBERALIZATION*

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[BOOK] Distinguishing limited commitment from moral hazard in models of growth with inequality

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AL Paulson, RM Townsend… - 2003 - itservices.uchicago.edu
Page 1. Distinguishing Limited Commitment from Moral Hazard in Models of Growth with
Inequality∗ Anna L. Paulson Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Robert Townsend University
of Chicago Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago This version: February, 2003 Abstract ...
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[BOOK] Financial systems in developing economies

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ECONOMHES. Page 2. Financial Systems in Developing Economies Page 3. ...
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[CITATION] Questionnaire design and data collection for NICHD grant Risk, Insurance and the Family, and NSF grants

RM Townsend, A Paulson, S Sakuntasathien… - Manuscript, The University …, 1997
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[PDF] Biased policies, agriculture and income distribution in South Africa: A social accounting matrix approach

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Page 1. Biased Policies, Agriculture and Income Distribution in South Africa 1 Biased Policies,
Agriculture and Income Distribution in South Africa: A Social Accounting Matrix Approach RF
Townsend Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Pretoria S. McDonald1 ...
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Discovering the sources of TFP growth: Occupational choice and financial deepening

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H Jeong… - IEPR Working Paper No. 05-19, 2005 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Total factor productivity (TFP) growth is measured as a residual and its sources
typically remain unknown inside the residual. This paper aims to identify the underlying
sources of this residual growth, being explicit about both micro underpinnings and ...
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[CITATION] Improving opportunities for the rural poor in South Africa

K Brooks, J van Zyl… - World, 2000
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[CITATION] Financial Structures as Communications Systems

RM Townsend - Colin Lawrence and Robert P. Shay, eels., …, 1986
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Microenterprise and macropolicy

RM Townsend - ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY MONOGRAPHS, 1997 - books.google.com
Page 168. CHAPTER 5 Microenterprise and macropolicy Robert M. Townsend 1
SOME BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATION: THREE WELL-KNOWN PROGRAMS
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[CITATION] 0Pareto Optima and Competitive Equilibria with Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard, 1 Econometrica

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[PDF] Testing a structural model of credit constraints using a large-scale quasi-experimental microfinance initiative

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Page 1. Testing a Structural Model of Credit Constraints Using a Large-Scale Quasi-Experimental
Microfinance Initiative Joseph P. Kaboski and Robert M. Townsend∗† April 3, 2007 Abstract
This paper develops a structural model of credit constrained household consump- ...
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[CITATION] The Status of Women and Minorities in the History Profession

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Endogenous groups and dynamic selection in mechanism design

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[CITATION] Weather Insurance in Semi-Arid India

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[CITATION] nComputing Multi&period

C Phelan… - … $ Constrained Optima, oReview of Economic Studies, 1991
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