NDLI: Identifying the determinants of aggregate judicial performance: taxpayers’ money well spent?

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Author	Voigt, Stefan El Bialy, ra
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	There have been a sizeable number of studies trying to identify the determinants of judicial performance on the country level. Such a design is appropriate to identify underperforming individual judges or underperforming courts or court districts. However, it is not appropriate to identify institutions conducive to judicial performance. A dataset produced by the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice contains very detailed information on the judicial systems of the 47 member countries of the Council of Europe. Drawing on robust regressions and using an objective variable, we find that (1) resolution rates are not a function of per capita income. In other words: poor countries can also afford them. (2) Countries belonging to the French legal tradition enjoy relatively lower resolution rates. (3) Resolution rates are negatively—and very robustly—correlated with court budget. As such, a higher budget will not “buy” more court decisions. (4) Resolution rates are never positively correlated with the presence of judicial councils. (5) Mandatory training for judges is correlated with higher resolution rates. Drawing on the subjectively perceived efficiency of the judiciary as the dependent variable we find that (6) countries belonging to both the French and the socialist legal tradition are less efficient and that (7) judicial councils are also negatively correlated with our measure of judicial efficiency, in other words: countries that do not have them should not introduce them.
Starting Page	283
Ending Page	319
Page Count	37
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09291261
Journal	European Journal of Law and Economics
Volume Number	41
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15729990
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2014-12-11
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Judicial efficiency Judicial performance Judicial productivity Court budget Number of resolved cases Judicial councils Law and Economics European Integration Public Finance & Economics Commercial Law
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Business and International Management Law Economics and Econometrics

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