Are Courts Slow? Exposing and Measuring the Invisible Determinants of Case Disposition Time

Kim Economides (), Alfred Haug and Joe McIntyre ()
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Kim Economides: Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Joe McIntyre: Thompson Rivers University, BC, Canada

No 1317, Working Papers from University of Otago, Department of Economics

Abstract: This article analyses civil case disposition time by developing hypotheses to explain behavioral and structural determinants of so-called 'delay' and suggesting a novel methodology ('Echronometrics') to account for factors, operating at both macro and micro socio-economic levels, that influence the behavior and outputs of civil courts. Our proposed methodology includes more relevant variables, and specifies their interdependence, thus offering a more powerful explanatory tool for future empirical research to account for and measure the complex interactions of time and cost in civil trials

Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2013-11, Revised 2013-11
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