Resolutions, recoveries and relationships: The evolution of payment disputes in Central and Eastern Europe

Pyle, William

doi:10.1016/j.jce.2006.02.002

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“…This means that, despite the different channels of information transmission, social networks and associations are substitutes with respect to supporting cooperation. The results of that model are supported by and explain recent empirical findings, for instance, that members perceive associations to be less valuable in more competitive industries (Pyle 2005(Pyle , 2006.…”

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“…The definition of associations used in this article, taken from Pyle (2005Pyle ( , 2006, includes the feature that associations are not-for-profit organizations. We include this feature for two reasons.…”

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“…A negative view, which is brought forward by scholars from industrial organization, law and economics, and public choice, underlines the ability of associations to coordinate their members' behavior, for instance to publish prices, to allocate quota, and to reduce industry output to the detriment of consumers (Döner & Schneider 2000;Motta 2004;Vives 1990) or to lobby politicians for selective favors (Besley & Coate 2001;Pyle 2011;Tucker 2008). 5 Probably, the best known theoretical work on associations is Olson's (1982) study on collective action.…”

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“…Similarly, Pyle (2011) finds, based on survey data about firms and business associations in the Russian Federation, that collective action organized by associations serves as a substitute for political competition in protecting firms' property rights: 9 "[T]he relationship between a firm's membership in a business association and the security of its property rights strengthens in less politically competitive regions." This confirms our prediction that the good lobbying role of associations is particularly important in contexts of low institutional quality.…”

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This article explores whether positive or negative effects of trade associations-private, formal, nonprofit organizations designed to promote the common interests of their members-on the economy prevail. We construct a model that endogenizes association membership of firms and the main functions of associations, which can have positive or negative spillovers on the economy. We show that, all else equal, the incentives of associations to lobby for better property rights are highest when property rights are unprotected. In turn, incentives to seek rents are strongest when property rights are well protected. This suggests that associations can be a valuable private ordering institution when governments are ineffective but recommends caution when governments supply a functioning legal system.(JEL codes: D02, D62, D71, D72, L44).

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

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

2015

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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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Resolutions, recoveries and relationships: The evolution of payment disputes in Central and Eastern Europe

Cited by 24 publications

References 42 publications

Trade Associations, Lobbying, and Endogenous Institutions

Trade Associations, Lobbying, and Endogenous Institutions

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

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

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