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Simeon Djankov

Simeon Djankov

CV

Research interests

  • Financing the Real Economy
  • Development Economics
  • Financial Crises
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Business Regulation

Research projects

I am Principal Investigator of the project "How the design of bankruptcy procedures impacts macroeconomic and employment outcomes in the post-Covid recovery period: lessons from previous crises" funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (grant reference ES/V015508/1). The presentation "Insolvency and Recovery among UK Firms" was given at the SME Policy Workshop organised by the University of Nottingham, CBI and Bank of England in March 2022.  

I am also Project Leader for the John Templeton Foundation Grant on Women’s Empowerment, Economic Freedom, and the Role of Law in Driving Prosperity (grant ID 62616).

Recent publications

Chapters in the 2024 Atlas: Freedom and prosperity around the world, published by The Atlantic Council (February 2024):

 

Research outputs on LSE portal

Publications

Firms in Financial Distress

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

Business Regulation and Poverty

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

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