Robert Townsend

Rob Townsend is the Elizabeth & James Killian Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has studied the role and impact of economic organization and financial systems through applied general equilibrium models, contract theory, and the use of micro data. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He won many awards, including the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize, and the Frisch Medal twice.