This paper offers an assessment of tax administration performance and provides evidence of
the relationship between fiscal decentralization (and tax structure) and the technical …

Purpose European justice systems are facing a dramatic performance crisis due to the
frequent inability to resolve cases without incurring unreasonable delays and backlogs. In …

The mandate of any judicial system is to pronounce quality judgements in a timely, impartial
and transparent manner. The Indian judiciary is currently facing a mammoth backlog of …

This article investigates the dividend informational content hypothesis, showing how
managers react to a poor legal environment through positive and credible messages to …

Efficient judicial systems are acknowledged to benefit economic growth, firm competition,
entrepreneurship, and financial market development. The goal of this paper is to measure …

Purpose This study investigates the presence of a productivity–quality trade-off in judicial
decisions from an organisational standpoint, focusing on the courts as bureaucracies …

We propose a methodology to map structural reforms from granular data to an aggregate
model, exploring their transmission mechanisms and their macroeconomic and social …

This paper analyses the technical efficiency of first-instance courts and investigates the
existence of scale and scope economies. To assess the technical efficiency of specialized …

This work investigates the Italian judicial system and discusses the designing of a policy
reform to boost the efficiency of courts, considering the human resources available as well …

The law exists to regulate the behaviour of the members of its community. Economics exists
to study the behaviour of individual or group economic agents in allocating resources for …