Publications

Journal of Finance, 76 (1), 267-316

Journal of Financial Econometrics, 19 (1), 39–52

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...

Journal of Financial Economics, 139 (1), 260-287

Last week brought welcome news about the apparent effectiveness of a potential Covid-19 vaccine. While the challenges of manufacturing and...

Financial crises invariably lead governments to intervene in one way or another, whether to ease the damage to middle-class voters, to respond to the...

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.

What drives actual government policies after financial crises? In this paper, we first present a simple model of post-crisis policymaking driven by...

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...

Journal of Finance, 75 (5), 2591-2629

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.

The Review of Financial Studies, 34(10), 4785–4831.