Publications of Simeon Djankov

Fiscal crises, particularly following a pandemic of the magnitude of Covid-19, spur regulatory reform, for example in registering property, trading...

We examine a new data set of laws and practices governing public procurement, as well as procurement outcomes, in 187 countries. We measure regulation...

We estimate the survival time of nearly 7,000 firms in a dozen of high-income and middle-income countries in a scenario of extreme economic distress...

Job retention schemes, unemployment benefits and business loans may not apply in many developing countries, write Erica Bosio and Simeon Djankov.

Governments wondering how to help the private sector should look no further: just pay your bills on time, write Erica Bosio, Simeon Djankov, Emilia...

With lockdown measures in place almost worldwide now, cash-flow represents a significant concern for firms across multiple sectors. It remains to be...

Governments around the world are assisting firms to deal with the adverse effects of Covid-19. Most forms of government assistance provided so far...

Simeon Djankov's testimony before the members of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) of the European Parliament.

Loan guarantees to small businesses are emerging as a main policy response during the COVID-19 crisis. Using evidence from the UK’s Enterprise Finance...

Median survival time ranges from 8 to 19 weeks across 12 countries. Worryingly, this is not correlated with firm size, age or productivity, which...

With businesses fast running out of cash, governments need to roll out a loan program that builds on the recently-created job retention scheme, write...

Governments can do two things to keep businesses afloat: temporarily suspend bankruptcy procedures, and design a post-crisis restart process, write...

In the 30 years since the fall of communism, the countries of the former Soviet bloc and Yugoslavia have undergone tremendous change. Income per...

Students around the world are going to school but are not learning – an emerging gap in human capital formation. To understand this gap, we introduce...

We show that Eastern Orthodox believers are less happy compared to those of Catholic and Protestant faith using data covering more than 100 countries...

Using panel data for 189 economies from 2004 to 2016, we show that business-friendly regulations are correlated with the poverty headcount at the...