Determinants of the Duration of European Appellate Court Proceedings in Cartel Cases

Florian Smuda, Patrice Bougette () and Kai Hüschelrath
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Patrice Bougette: GREDEG - Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion - UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UniCA - Université Côte d'Azur
Kai Hüschelrath: Centre for European Economic Research (Mannheim, Germany) - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - University of Mannheim = Universität Mannheim, MaCCI - Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation
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Abstract: The duration of appellate court proceedings is an important determinant of the efficiency of a court system. We use data of 263 appeals decisions referring to 54 cartels convicted by the European Commission between 2000 and 2012 to investigate the determinants of the duration of the subsequent one- or two-stage appeals process. We find that while the speed of first-stage appellate court decisions depend, inter alia, on authority-related factors such as the complexity of the case, the clarity of the applied rules and regulations and previous or simultaneous US investigations, the second-stage appellate court proceedings appear to be largely unaffected by those drivers.

Keywords: law and economics; antitrust policy; cartels; appeals; European Union (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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Published in Journal of Common Market Studies, 2015, 53 (6), pp.1352-1369. ⟨10.1111/jcms.12259⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/jcms.12259

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