Simeon Djankov

TL;DR: This paper studied the effects of different modalities of privatization to insiders on the restructuring process in two former Soviet republics -Georgia and Moldova - using enterprise survey data for 1995-97.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a sample of 147 countries to investigate the link between democracy and reforms and found that democracy is conducive to reform, because politicians have the incentive to embrace growth-enhancing reforms to win elections.

TL;DR: The authors discusses the economic and political transformation in 29 post-communist countries in the 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and discusses the divergence between democracy and political rights over the region is thus four to five times larger than what is observed for economic freedom and ease of doing business.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between firm restructuring and international competition in Bulgaria during 1991-94 and found that firms in industries that are subject to significant international competition demonstrate greater increases in efficiency over time than those that remain sheltered from such competition.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the activities of the Bulgarian competition office, the Commission for the Protection of Competition, during 1991-5 and found that instead of hard core anti-competitive behaviour, much of the Commission's activities have centred on 'unfair' competition (e.g. false advertising, trademark infringement, and the behaviour of ex-employees of specific enterprises).