Determinants of the duration of European appellate court proceedings in cartel cases

Florian Smuda, Patrice Bougette and Kai Hüschelrath
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Kai Hueschelrath

No 14-062, ZEW Discussion Papers from ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

Abstract: The duration of appellate court proceedings is an important determinant of the efficiency of a court system. We use data of 234 firm groups that participated in 63 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 the firststage appellate court decision depends on the court's appeals-related workload, the complexity of the case, the degree of cooperation by the firms involved and the clarity of the applied rules and regulations, the second-stage appellate court proceedings appear to be largely unaffected by those drivers. We take our empirical results to derive conclusions for both firms that plan to file an appeal as well as public policy makers.

Keywords: Law and economics; antitrust policy; cartels; appeals; European Union (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K21 K41 K42 L41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Journal Article: Determinants of the Duration of European Appellate Court Proceedings in Cartel Cases (2015)
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Working Paper: Determinants of the Duration of European Appellate Court Proceedings in Cartel Cases (2014)
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