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Robert Townsend
Distinguished Fellow
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Education: Ph.D. in University of Minnesota, 1975.


Current Affiliations: Elizabeth & James Killian Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


Selected Honors:
· Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2012.
· Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1994.
· President, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, 2017.
· FIRS Lifetime Achievement Award, 2017.
· Sir John Hicks Lecture for the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, 2015.
· Theodore W. Schultz Award, 2013.
· Frisch Medal, Econometric Society, 1998 & 2012.
· Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize, 2011.


Research Field


· Development Economics

· Economic Theory

· Macroeconomics

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