Court Output, Judicial Staffing, and the Demand for Court Services: Evidence from Slovenian Courts of First Instance

Dimitrova‐Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Šušteršič, Janez; Zajc, Katarina

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“…8 To this end, we follow Dimitrova-Grajzl et al (2012a) and posit the following general empirical model:…”

Section: The Determinants Of Court Output: Conceptual Framework and Ementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rigorous empirical evidence on the performance of post-socialist courts based on original court data (Murrell 2001;Hendley 2004Hendley , 2005Gadiuta 2012, Dimitrova-Grajzl et al 2012a, as opposed to indirect, survey-based evidence (e.g., Hendley et al 2000, Johnson et al 2002, Djankov et al 2003a, Pyle 2006, Koford and Miller 2006, is particularly scarce. 1 Systematic, empirically-grounded analysis of courts can provide valuable input into ongoing discourse about the design and reform of judicial systems (see, e.g., Messick 1999, Botero et al 2003, Stephenson 2007.…”

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“…Murrell (2001), Micevska andHazra (2004), andDimitrova-Grajzl et al (2012a) are to our knowledge the only contributions that explicitly address two-way causality between the demand for court services and measures of court activity. Much like Dimitrova-Grajzl et al (2012a), we additionally tackle the reverse causality between court output and judicial staffing. 3 However, in comparison with the analysis of Dimitrova-Grajzl et al (2012a), we explore a wider set of instrumental variable approaches and specifications.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Much like Dimitrova-Grajzl et al (2012a), we additionally tackle the reverse causality between court output and judicial staffing. 3 However, in comparison with the analysis of Dimitrova-Grajzl et al (2012a), we explore a wider set of instrumental variable approaches and specifications. In particular, we exploit the instrumental variable approach based on the general method of moments (Arellano and Bond 1991) which has not been utilized in any of the previous studies on the determinants of court activity.…”

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The lack of effective judiciary in post-socialist countries has been a pervasive concern and successful judicial reform an elusive goal. Yet to date, little empirical research exists on the functioning of courts in the post-socialist world. We draw on a new court-level panel dataset from Bulgaria to study the determinants of court case disposition and to evaluate whether judicial decision-making is subject to a quantity-quality tradeoff. Addressing endogeneity concerns, we find that case disposition in Bulgarian courts is largely driven by demand for court services. The number of serving judges, a key court resource, matters to a limited extent only in a subsample of courts, a result suggesting that judges adjust their productivity based on the number of judges serving at a court. We do not find evidence implying that increasing court productivity would decrease adjudicatory quality. We discuss the policy implications of our findings. Terms of use: Documents inJEL-Code: P370, K400, D020.

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“…8 To this end, we follow Dimitrova-Grajzl et al (2012a) and posit the following general empirical model:…”

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“…It is not uncommon that the court sessions would be spread out over several years since filing of the case. Indeed, the Slovenian judicial system has been plagued by substantial delays in case resolution (see, e.g., Anderson et al 2005, Dimitrova-Grajzl et al 2012, CEPEJ 2014.…”

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Litigation and the timing of settlement: evidence from commercial disputes

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2016

Eur J Law Econ

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Although an overwhelming proportion of all legal disputes end in settlement, the determinants of the timing of settlement remain empirically underexplored. We draw on a novel dataset on the duration of commercial disputes in Slovenia to study how the timing of settlement is shaped by the stages and features of the litigation process. Using competing risk regression analysis, we find that events such as court-annexed mediation and the first court session, which enable the disputing parties to refine their respective expectations about the case outcome, in general reduce case duration to settlement. The magnitude of the respective effects, however, varies with time. Completion of subsequent court sessions, in contrast, does not affect the time to settlement. Judicial workload affects the timing of settlement indirectly, via the effect on the timing of the first court session. We also examine the effect of other case and party characteristics. Terms of use: Documents inJEL-Code: K410, K490, D020.

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Inside post-socialist courts: the determinants of adjudicatory outcomes in Slovenian commercial disputes

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Despite the judiciary's central role in the capitalist market system, micro-level empirical analyses of courts in post-socialist countries are remarkably rare. This paper draws on a unique hand-collected dataset of commercial claims filed at Slovenian courts to examine the determinants of two salient adjudicatory outcomes: whether a case was resolved via trial or settlement and if the case was tried, whether the plaintiff was awarded the initial claim. Consistent with the divergent expectations theory of litigation, we find that trial-based resolution is more likely when the case is complex and less likely when parties use mediation. Addressing sample selection and endogeneity concerns, we show that defendant's legal representation, plaintiff's profitability, and, importantly, court identity are robust predictors of plaintiff victory at trial. Thus, more than two decades after the start of transition in Slovenia, the judicial system is still a source of legal inconsistency and uncertainty. Terms of use: Documents inJEL-Code: K400, K410, P370, D020.

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Court Output, Judicial Staffing, and the Demand for Court Services: Evidence from Slovenian Courts of First Instance

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Courts in a transition economy: Case disposition and the quantity–quality tradeoff in Bulgaria

Courts in a transition economy: Case disposition and the quantity–quality tradeoff in Bulgaria

Litigation and the timing of settlement: evidence from commercial disputes

Inside post-socialist courts: the determinants of adjudicatory outcomes in Slovenian commercial disputes

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