Townsend named winner of Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize in economics

Public release date: 4-Jan-2012
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Contact: Jennifer Roche
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Consortium on Financial Systems & Poverty

(January 4, 2012 Chicago, IL) Robert M. Townsend, the Elizabeth & James Killian Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been named the 2011 recipient of the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize in economics.

The Institute of Industrial Economics (IDEI) and the city of Toulouse, France have awarded the prize to a prominent economist annually since 2005. The award was established to honor the late economist Jean-Jacques Laffont, who founded IDEI in 1990.

Professor Townsend will accept the award in Toulouse, France on January 12, 2012. He will also present an accompanying lecture titled, "Financial Design and Economic Development."

Townsend is a development economist whose recent work focuses on analyzing the role and impact of financial systems on developing economies by studying applied general equilibrium models and contract theory. He is the author of Financial Structure and Economic Organization (1990), The Medieval Village Economy (1993), Households as Corporate Firms (2010) with Krislert Samphantharak, Financial Systems in Developing Economies (2011), and numerous professional articles in economics and development.

Townsend has been on the faculty of MIT since 2008. Prior to that, he taught at the University of Chicago, where he remains a Research Associate.

Townsend also leads several prominent research initiatives, including the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty, the Townsend Thai Project, and the Enterprise Initiative.

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Public release date: 4-Jan-2012
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Contact: Jennifer Roche
jroche@uchicago.edu
312-804-9665
Consortium on Financial Systems & Poverty

(January 4, 2012 Chicago, IL) Robert M. Townsend, the Elizabeth & James Killian Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been named the 2011 recipient of the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize in economics.

The Institute of Industrial Economics (IDEI) and the city of Toulouse, France have awarded the prize to a prominent economist annually since 2005. The award was established to honor the late economist Jean-Jacques Laffont, who founded IDEI in 1990.

Professor Townsend will accept the award in Toulouse, France on January 12, 2012. He will also present an accompanying lecture titled, "Financial Design and Economic Development."

Townsend is a development economist whose recent work focuses on analyzing the role and impact of financial systems on developing economies by studying applied general equilibrium models and contract theory. He is the author of Financial Structure and Economic Organization (1990), The Medieval Village Economy (1993), Households as Corporate Firms (2010) with Krislert Samphantharak, Financial Systems in Developing Economies (2011), and numerous professional articles in economics and development.

Townsend has been on the faculty of MIT since 2008. Prior to that, he taught at the University of Chicago, where he remains a Research Associate.

Townsend also leads several prominent research initiatives, including the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty, the Townsend Thai Project, and the Enterprise Initiative.

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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/cofs-tnw010412.php

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