Judicial productivity, delay and efficiency: A Directional Distance Function (DDF) approach

Falavigna, Greta; Ippoliti, Roberto; Manello, Alessandro; Ramello, Giovanni B.

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2014.07.014

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“…First, we add to the growing empirical law and economics literature on the activity of courts. Within this literature, relatively few studies have been able to draw on original court-based data from judicial systems outside of the U.S. or the common law world (see, e.g., Beenstock and Haitovsky 2004, Mitsopoulos and Pelagidis 2007, Rosales-Lopez 2008, Schneider 2005Di Vita 2012aElbialy and GarciaRubio 2011, Finocchario Castro and Guccio 2014, Santos and Amado 2014, Falavigna et al 2015. Our analysis of Bulgarian courts contributes to the literature by shedding light on the functioning of the judicial system in the understudied post-socialist region.…”

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Courts in a transition economy: Case disposition and the quantity–quality tradeoff in Bulgaria

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The lack of effective judiciary in post-socialist countries has been a pervasive concern and successful judicial reform an elusive goal. Yet to date, little empirical research exists on the functioning of courts in the post-socialist world. We draw on a new court-level panel dataset from Bulgaria to study the determinants of court case disposition and to evaluate whether judicial decision-making is subject to a quantity-quality tradeoff. Addressing endogeneity concerns, we find that case disposition in Bulgarian courts is largely driven by demand for court services. The number of serving judges, a key court resource, matters to a limited extent only in a subsample of courts, a result suggesting that judges adjust their productivity based on the number of judges serving at a court. We do not find evidence implying that increasing court productivity would decrease adjudicatory quality. We discuss the policy implications of our findings. Terms of use: Documents inJEL-Code: P370, K400, D020.

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“…The input-output combinations used by each benchmark court or a combination of them can provide some guidance for the less efficient courts included in the analysis to identify their sources of inefficiency. These include, for example, Finocchiaro Castro and Guccio (2014), Santos and Amado (2014) as well as Falavigna et al (2015). Hollingsworth and Peacock (2008) reviewed 289 studies analyzing efficiency in the that sector, 48 % of which use DEA, while another 20 % use a 2 stage DEA, combining DEA with a regression model.…”

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“…Recently, Falavigna et al (2015) proposed to rely on a non-parametric technique called Directional Distance Function (DDF) which is closely related to DEA. The main difference is that DDF allows to maximize a good and minimize a bad at the same time.…”

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Determinants of judicial efficiency: a survey

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2016

Eur J Law Econ

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“…Furthermore, Schneider (2005) concludes that more PhD holders, as judges, increase the efficiency. Falavigna et al (2015) use court delay, as an undesirable output, in a directional distance function.…”

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A bootstrapped Malmquist index applied to Swedish district courts

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Eur J Law Econ

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This study measures the total factor productivity (TFP) of the Swedish district courts by applying data envelopment analysis to calculate the Malmquist productivity index (MPI) of 48 Swedish district courts from 2012 to 2015. In contrast to the limited international literature on court productivity, this study uses a fully decomposed MPI. A bootstrapping approach is further applied to compute confidence intervals for each decomposed factor of TFP. The findings show a 1.7% average decline of TFP, annually. However, a substantial variation between years can be observed in the number of statistically significant courts below and above unity. The averages of the components show that the negative impact is mainly driven by negative technical change. Large variations are also observed over time where the small courts have the largest volatility. Two recommendations are: (1) that district courts with negative TFP growth could learn from those with positive

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Judicial productivity, delay and efficiency: A Directional Distance Function (DDF) approach

Cited by 77 publications

References 41 publications

Courts in a transition economy: Case disposition and the quantity–quality tradeoff in Bulgaria

Courts in a transition economy: Case disposition and the quantity–quality tradeoff in Bulgaria

Determinants of judicial efficiency: a survey

A bootstrapped Malmquist index applied to Swedish district courts

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