Publications of Simeon Djankov

We find some evidence of regulatory convergence in four distinct areas of business activity over the 2005-2019 period. This convergence is most...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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