恒甫所喜爱的一位一流经济学家ROBERT TOWNSEND的才华.这才叫所谓的丰富多彩啊.中国经济学家能做到吗?恒甫还没有见到.

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University of Chicago Department of Economics

Prof. Townsend is the Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Economics at University of Chicago. His contributions in theory include the revelation principle, costly state verification, optimal multiperiod contracts, decentralization with private information, money with spatially separated agents, financial structure and growth, and forecasting the forecasts of others. His contributions in econometrics include the study of risk and insurance in developing countries. His work on village India was awarded the Frisch Medal in 1998.

(1)中世纪乡村经济:一般均衡模型里珀累托图案的研究.The Medieval Village Economy: A Study of the Pareto Mapping in General Equilibrium Models, Princeton University Press, 1993.

(2) 北部泰国乡村的金融制度, QJE,"Financial Systems in Northern Thai Villages", Quarterly Journal of Economics, November1995, 1011-1046. 过瘾吧．

(3)乡村印度的风险和保险,Econometrica, "Risk and Insurance in Village India", Econometrica, 62(3), May 1994, 539-591. 潇洒啊．

（４）不对称信息下的资源配置，　Econometrica，　＂Resource Allocation under Asymmetric Information", joint with Milton Harris, Econometrica 49(1), January 1981: 33-69. 形而上呀．

（５）存在私人信息里的瓦尔拉斯市场的作为俱乐部的公司，　ＪＰＥ．　"Firms as Clubs in Walrasian Markets with Private Information," with Edward Simpson Prescott, Journal of Political Economy August 2006 (vol. 114, no. 4) 想过头了啥．

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