New Disputes and Delay in Italian Courts

Sobbrio, Giuseppe; D’Agostino, Elena; Sironi, Emiliano

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1554055

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“…Empirical evidence also indicates that economic performance and employment lawsuits are negatively related (Siegelman and Donohue III 1995). Fourth, in general, parties living in more prosperous regions can be presumed to have a higher ability to pay potential litigation costs (Sobbrio, D'Agostino and Sironi 2010), which impacts the demand of any type of civil litigation. Since GDP is expected to impact most types of civil cases, we include it as a control.…”

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Backlogs and litigation rates: Testing congestion equilibrium across European judiciaries

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Peeters

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International Review of Law and Economics

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To address the problem of court backlogs, policymakers in many countries have been pursuing reforms to reduce case disposition times and the demand for litigation. Yet Priest's (1989) congestion-equilibrium theory states that reforms aimed at reducing court delays are offset by an increased tendency to litigate. To test the congestion-equilibrium hypothesis, we use biennial panel data from 36 European countries over the period 2006-2012. Specifically, we estimate (i) a repeated cross-section model using conventional (pooled) OLS, (ii) a standard (static) random-effects panel data model, and (iii) a (static) random effects model using the new method of unconditional quantile regression (UQR) to examine the countrylevel relationship between litigation rates and court backlogs (measured by the number of pending cases per judge in each country). In accordance with the congestion equilibrium hypothesis, the UQR estimates suggest a negative impact of court backlogs on litigation rates but only in highly litigious countries, insofar as the latter experience a high degree of judicial independence. This shows the need for custom-tailored policy approaches to tackling court delay based on countries' existing litigation rates.

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Section: Variables and Descriptive Statisticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Backlogs and litigation rates: Testing congestion equilibrium across European judiciaries

Bielen

Peeters

Marneffe

et al. 2018

International Review of Law and Economics

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“…On the other hand, a higher GDP per capita not only implies a higher number of transactions but also more complex transactions, which in turn augments the potential for conflicts (Hanssen 1999, Posner 1997, Clemenz and Gugler 2000, Ginsburg and Hoetker 2006. Moreover, parties living in more prosperous regions can be presumed to have a higher ability to pay potential litigation costs (Sobbrio, D'Agostino and Sironi 2010). We also include the growth rate of GDP per capita to take into account economic cycles.…”

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Testing the lawyer-induced litigation hypothesis in Europe

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Marneffe

2017

Applied Economics

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“…The crucial role of the judicial systems for economic development has led many scholars (Posner, 1993 and1998 (Botero et al 2003). In Italy, the most obvious problems in the justice system are the court delays (Sobbrio et al, 2009;Bianco et al, 2007). Therefore, the time that judges take to decide on cases has become the theme of policy discussions and polemics (Di Vita, 2012; Cohen et al, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%