Robert Townsend

Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Biography

Robert Townsend is a consultant in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Townsend is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Bank Publications

Economic Perspectives

Financial Constraints and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Thai Financial Crisis

Anna Paulson, Robert Townsend | 2005 | Vol. 29 | 3rd Quarter Download

The credit risk-contingency system of an Asian development bank

Robert Townsend, Jacob Yaron | 2001 | Vol. 25 | No. 3 | August | 3rd Quarter Download

Small business finance in two Chicago minority neighborhoods

Philip Bond, Paul Huck, Sherrie Rhine, Robert Townsend | 1999 | Vol. 23 | No. 2 | May | 2nd Quarter Download

Formal and informal financing in a Chicago ethnic neighborhood

Philip Bond, Robert Townsend | 1996 | Vol. 20 | No. 4 | July | 3rd Quarter Download

Working Papers

Distinguishing Limited Liability from Moral Hazard in a Model of Entrepreneurship

Alexander Karaivanov, Anna Paulson, Robert Townsend | 2003 | No. 2003-06 Download

Supplier Relationships and Small Business Use of Trade Credit

Daniel Aaronson, Raphael Bostic, Paul Huck, Robert Townsend | 2000 | No. 2000-28 Download