Publications of Simeon Djankov

In much of the world, property sales are highly regulated and expensive. Using World Bank data, this column shows that while regulators and...

How do the different elements in the standard bundle of property rights, including those of possession and transfer, influence the shape of cities...

Nature, 92, 403-408

Steep falls in entrepreneurial activity were recorded in early 2020 across G7 economies. In the US, however, the creation of US startups shot up by 24...

With the exception of some flashpoints in Northern and Southern Africa, the continent has been largely spared from the direct health effect of Covid...

Bankruptcies have fallen sharply in OECD economies because of the array of COVID-related support available to businesses, as well as imposed moratoria...

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...