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Judicial Performance and its Determinants: A Cross-Country Perspective

Giuliana Palumbo, Giulia Giupponi, Luca Nunziata and Juan Mora-Sanguinetti
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No 5, OECD Economic Policy Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: Well functioning judiciaries are key to economic development. Combining existing information with a newly collected dataset, the paper provides cross-country comparisons of measures of judicial performance, and investigates how cross-country differences in trial length are related to the underlying characteristics of judicial systems. There is a large cross-country variation in trial length across all instances, which appears to be related to the share of the justice budget devoted to computerisation, the systematic production of statistics the active management of the progress of cases, the presence of specialised commercial courts and the managerial responsibilities assigned to the chief judge. Good quality regulation, is associated with lower litigation, which in turn can shorten trial length. Free negotiation of lawyers’ fees also appears to be associated with lower litigation.

Keywords: accessibility; accessibilité; appeal rates; caractéristiques des systèmes judiciaires; durée de procès; fonctionnement de la justice; institutional characteristics of judicial systems; judicial performance; litigation; taux d'appel; taux de litige; trial length (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D02 K40 K41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-06-12
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