Collective Organizations versus Relative Performance Contracts: Inequality, Risk Sharing, and Moral Hazard. - Edward Simpson Prescott; Robert M. Townsend (J. Econ. Theory, 2002)

Dynamic mechanism design with hidden income and hidden actions. - Matthias Doepke; Robert M. Townsend (J. Econ. Theory, 2006)

Endogenous groups and dynamic selection in mechanism design. - Gabriel A. Madeira; Robert M. Townsend (J. Econ. Theory, 2008)

Information-constrained optima with retrading: An externality and its market-based solution. - Weerachart T. Kilenthong; Robert M. Townsend (J. Econ. Theory, 2011)

Optimal Design of Tokenized Markets. - Michael Junho Lee; Antoine Martin; Robert M. Townsend (Tokenomics, 2021)

Optimal Credit Scores Under Adverse Selection. - Nicole Immorlica; Andre M. Sztutman; Robert M. Townsend (EC, 2022)

SoK: Fully-homomorphic encryption in smart contracts. - Daniel Aronoff; Adithya Bhat; Panagiotis Chatzigiannis; Mohsen Minaei; Srinivasan Raghuraman; Robert M. Townsend; Nicolas Xuan-Yi Zhang (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025)

A Smart-Contract to Resolve Multiple Equilibrium in Intermediated Trade. - Daniel Aronoff; Robert M. Townsend (CoRR, 2025)