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Robert M. Townsend
dblp:01/11119
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2022
—ORCID · unresolved
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Theory of computation · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design · 100% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Computational finance and economics · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design › mechanism design › contract theory
adverse selection |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Optimal Credit Scores Under Adverse Selection · EC 2022 |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design › mechanism design › information design
information disclosure |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Optimal Credit Scores Under Adverse Selection · EC 2022 |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design
mechanism design |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Optimal Credit Scores Under Adverse Selection · EC 2022 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
sufficient statistics · 1.1optimal disclosure · 1.1
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Optimal Credit Scores Under Adverse SelectionabstractThe increasing availability of data in credit markets may appear to make adverse selection concerns less relevant. However, when there is adverse selection, more information does not necessarily increase welfare. We provide tools for making better use of the data that is collected from potential borrowers, formulating and solving the optimal disclosure problem of an intermediary with commitment that seeks to maximize the probability of successful transactions, weighted by the size of the gains of these transactions. We show that any optimal disclosure policy needs to satisfy some simple conditions in terms of local sufficient statistics. These conditions relate prices to the price elasticities of the expected value of the loans for the investors. Empirically, we apply our method to the data from the Townsend Thai Project, which is a long panel dataset with rich information on credit histories, balance sheets, and income statements, to evaluate whether it can help develop the particularly thin formal rural credit markets in Thailand, finding economically meaningful gains from adopting optimal information disclosure policies. Nicole Immorlica, Andre M. Sztutman, Robert M. Townsend |
EC | 3 |