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Understanding modes of civil case disposition: Evidence from Slovenian courts

Valentina Dimitrova-Grajzl, Peter Grajzl and Katarina Zajc

Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, vol. 42, issue 4, 924-939

Abstract: We contribute to the scant empirical literature on the functioning of courts in the post-socialist world by analyzing civil case disposition in Slovenia. We first characterize basic empirical patterns in modes of civil case disposition in Slovenian local courts. We then examine court-level determinants of the incidence of in-court settlements versus trial-based judgments. Consistent with the theory that both judges and disputing parties take into account their respective private benefits and costs when choosing their preferred mode of case disposition, we find evidence that the incidence of in-court settlements versus trial-based judgments increases with the number of all case filings per judge. Thus, court resources and demand for court services influence not only total court output, as previously established in the literature, but also how cases are disposed of.

Keywords: Case disposition; Civil disputes; In-court settlements; Trials; Court resources (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K40 K41 P37 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2014.04.006

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