Prof. Robert Townsend taught the first half of the course, 14.772 Development Economics: Macroeconomics from Spring 2013.
This lecture covers the research methods used to evaluate microcredit programs.
Prof. Robert Townsend discusses research methods and concepts about studying risk and return in village households.
Prof. Townsend introduces the course to the students, explains the syllabus, and covers the topics of finance, growth, and volatility.
In this lecture, Prof. Townsend discusses insurance as it relates to financial access and targeting to risk instruments.
In this lecture, Prof. Townsend reviews research about financial infrastructure and impact.
This lecture continues the topic of consumption smoothing.
In this lecture, Prof. Townsend discusses labor and development including the topics of sharing wage risk and labor and aggregation.
In this lecture, Prof. Townsend reviews the research about dynamic financial constraints.
In this lecture, Prof. Townsend explains the methods of measurement in the field of development economics.
In this lecture, Prof. Townsend explains growth, TFP, and financial market imperfections.
In this lecture, Prof. Robert Townsend explains growth, TFP, domestic and international capital flows with other frictions in financial intermediation.
This lecture covers economic research about micro-founded macro models.