Simeon Djankov

While tens of millions of Europeans have suffered from Russia’s war in Ukraine, a few Russian businesspeople have gotten richer from it. This column...

We investigate how timeliness in enforcing legal contracts affects economic growth across countries. We focus on judicial timeliness as a proxy for...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 opened a new chapter in unilateral and multilateral sanctions: the imposition of financial and travel...

A burgeoning economics and political science literature studies the effects of economic sanctions on various aspects of economic and social life of...

Economics Letters, 242, 111889

A reform removing the need for businesses to use a company seal when dealing with government agencies means ‘signed, sealed and delivered’ has become...

Informality prevails in Africa, especially among women. Eighty-eight per cent of working African women were employed in the informal economy in 2022...

Despite some advances in women’s rights in Pakistan, economic and political unrest has increased gender-based violence in the country. A system of...