Simeon Djankov

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present new data on the regulation of entry of start-up firms in 75 countries and show that the official costs of entry are extremely high in most countries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine patterns of media ownership in 97 countries around the world and find that almost universally the largest media firms are controlled by the government or by private families, and the adverse effects of government ownership on political and economic freedom are stronger for newspapers than for television.

TL;DR: This article presented insolvency practitioners from 88 countries, and asked them to describe in detail how debt enforcement will proceed in their countries, using the data on time, cost, and the likely disposition of the assets (preservation as a going concern versus piecemeal sale) to construct a measure of the efficiency of debt enforcement in each country.

TL;DR: The anti-self-dealing index as discussed by the authors is a measure of legal protection of minority shareholders against expropriation by corporate insiders, which is calculated for 72 countries based on legal rules prevailing in 2003, and focuses on private enforcement mechanisms, such as disclosure, approval, and litigation, governing a specific selfdealing transaction.

TL;DR: In this article, the exact procedures used by litigants and courts to evict a tenant for non-payment of rent and to collect a bounced check were measured and described by Lex Mundi member law firms in 109 countries.