A data envelopment analysis of the Italian judicial efficiency

Elisa Fusco, Martina Laurenzi and Bernardo Maggi
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Martina Laurenzi: Insight service, Logista Italia
Bernardo Maggi: "Sapienza" University of Rome

No 2018/2, DSS Empirical Economics and Econometrics Working Papers Series from Centre for Empirical Economics and Econometrics, Department of Statistics, "Sapienza" University of Rome

Abstract: In recent years, the Italian judicial system has been at the center of both the political debate and policy actions aiming at modifying the territorial structure and the organization of the courts as well as the procedural processes. The measures adopted concerned the reorganization of the magistrates’ career and the reform of judicial districts. However, despite the several reforms adopted, the Italian judicial system does not reach yet the European standards, principally for the so called magistrate-duration procedures binomial, according to which the number of magistrates is above the European average level and the time of legal trials is too long compared with most European countries. Hence, key words such as performance, effectiveness and in particular efficiency are worthy of attention. In this framework, our paper analyzes the efficiency of Italian judicial districts, using a Data Envelopment Analysis approach.

Keywords: Courts Efficiency; Law Enforcement; Productivity; Non-Parametric Methods; PCA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 K41 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2018-03
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