Litigation in Spain 2001-2010: Exploring the market for legar services

Juan Mora-Sanguinetti and Nuno Garoupa

No 1505, Working Papers from Banco de España

Abstract: There is empirical evidence of a cross-country positive association between the number of lawyers per capita and the extent of litigation. For instance, Spain has more litigation and more lawyers per capita than most OECD countries. How should this association be interpreted? In this paper we analyse the variation in both variables across Spanish provinces during the period 2001-2010, by means of an instrumental variable approach, to shed some light on the sources of the statistical association between them. Finally, implications of the results are discussed.

Keywords: lawyers; litigation; civil courts; instrumental variables (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J44 K41 K42 L84 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2015-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-law and nep-mfd
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