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Simeon
Djankov is the creator of the Doing Business series.
In his dozen years at the World Bank, he has worked on
regional trade agreements in North Africa, enterprise
restructuring and privatization in transition economies,
corporate governance in
East Asia, and regulatory reforms around the world. Simeon
was a principal author of the World Development Report 2002.
He
holds a PhD in economics from the
University
of
Michigan
at
Ann Arbor
and has published over 70 articles in academic journals,
including in Quarterly Journal of Economics, American
Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial
Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of
Comparative Economics.
Select research
Review
of the Dutch Administration Burden Reduction Programme,
with Peter Ladegaard and Caralee McLiesh, February 2007
Aid
with Multiple Personalities, with Jose Montalvo and
Marta Reynal-Querol, December 2006
Trading
on Time, with Caroline Freund and Cong Pham, December
2006
The
Curse of Aid, with Jose Montalvo and Marta Reynal-Querol,
March 2006
Published research
The
Law and Economics of Self-Dealing, with Rafael La Porta,
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer, Journal
of Financial Economics, May 2008
Obtaining
a Driving License in India: An Experimental Approach to
Studying Corruption? with Marianne Bertrand, Rema Hanna,
and Sendhil Mullainathan, Quarterly Journal of
Economics, November 2007
Private
Credit in 129 Countries, with Caralee McLiesh and Andrei
Shleifer, Journal of Financial Economics, May 2007
Regulation
and Growth, with Caralee McLiesh and Rita Ramalho, Economics
Letters, September 2006
Does
Foreign Aid Help? with Jose G. Montalvo, and Marta
Reynal-Querol, Cato Journal, Winter 2006
Who
are China's Entrepreneurs? with Yingyi Qian, Gérard
Roland, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, American
Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2006
Entrepreneurship
in China and Russia Compared, with Yingyi Qian, Gerard
Roland and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Journal of the
European Economic Association, May 2006
Corporate
Valuation and the Resolution of Bank Insolvency in East Asia,
with Jan Jindra and Leora Klapper, Journal of Banking
and Finance, September 2005
Who
are Russia's Entrepreneurs? with Edward Miguel, Yingyi
Qian, Gerard Roland, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Journal
of the European Economic Association, May 2005
The
Regulation of Labor, with Juan Botero, Rafael La Porta,
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer, Quarterly
Journal of Economics, November 2004
The
New Comparative Economics, with Edward Glaeser, Rafael
La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer, Journal
of Comparative Economics, December 2003
Who
Owns the Media? with Caralee McLiesh, Tatiana Nenova,
and Andrei Shleifer, Journal of Law and Economics,
October 2003
Courts,
with Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei
Shleifer, Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2003
Disentangling
the Incentive and Entrenchment Effects of Large
Shareholdings, with Stijn Claessens, Joseph Fan, and
Larry Lang, Journal of Finance, December 2002
Enterprise
Restructuring in Transition: A Quantitative Survey, with
Peter Murrell, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol.
XL, pp 739–792, September 2002
Privatization
Benefits in Eastern Europe, with Stijn Claessens, Journal
of Public Economics, March 2002
Trade
Flows in the Former Soviet Union, 1987-1996, with
Caroline Freund, Journal of Comparative Economics,
March 2002
The
Regulation of Entry, with Rafael La Porta, Florencio
Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer, Quarterly Journal
of Economics, February 2002
Hardened
Budget Constraints and Enterprise Restructuring: Theory and
an Application to Romania, with Fabrizio Coricelli, Journal
of Comparative Economics, December 2001
The
Separation of Ownership and Control in East Asian
Corporations, with Stijn Claessens and Larry Lang, Journal
of Financial Economics, November 2000
The
Restructuring of Insider-Dominated Firms: A Comparative
Analysis, Economics of Transition, April 1999
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