Publications of Simeon Djankov

We use a 50-year panel of gendered laws for 190 countries to examine whether laws and legal change are associated with several measures of women’s...

Furlough is here to stay – in the UK, at least until March. The author argues that making part of furlough income portable would encourage people to...

Faced with the prospect of hundreds of thousands of businesses going under, the UK changed its bankruptcy laws in June. Other G7 countries that put...

Changes to maternity leave and pension regulation, among other policy tools, can lessen the burden on women.

Tourism has taken an enormous hit during the pandemic. Simeon Djankov (LSE) looks at some of the ways governments are trying to revive the sector –...

In some countries, COVID-19 has prompted property transactions to move online, and in these places the market has picked up as a result. It represents...

In a world of limited public capacity, which rules and institutions that protect property rights have the largest impact on economic activity? This...

France and Germany have announced big recovery plans. Simeon Djankov looks at what they have in common – and what’s missing from both.

Young, small, and domestic market-oriented firms are more likely to fall into financial distress.

It is often argued that democracy is the least imperfect form of government mainly because of the existence of a ‘self-correcting’ mechanism stemming...

We use simple accounting measures to estimate the share of private manufacturing firms in financial distress under a hypothetical scenario of losing...

We use simple accounting measures to estimate the share of private manufacturing firms in financial distress under a hypothetical scenario of losing...

We explore the dynamics of media chatter about economic reforms using text analysis from about a billion newspaper articles in 28 languages. We show...

Countries reform when their neighbours have reformed too, especially in the aftermath of economic crises. This column examines business regulatory...

More flexible business regulation encourages both the development of startups and the inflow of foreign investment, write Simeon Djankov, Dorina...

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was hoped that warm weather and younger populations would shield many developing countries from the...