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A data envelopment analysis of the Italian judicial efficiency

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  • Elisa Fusco
  • Martina Laurenzi

    (Insight service, Logista Italia)

  • Bernardo Maggi

    ("Sapienza" University of Rome)

Abstract

In recent years, the Italian judicial system has been at the center of both the political debate and policy actions aiming at modifying the territorial structure and the organization of the courts as well as the procedural processes. The measures adopted concerned the reorganization of the magistrates’ career and the reform of judicial districts. However, despite the several reforms adopted, the Italian judicial system does not reach yet the European standards, principally for the so called magistrate-duration procedures binomial, according to which the number of magistrates is above the European average level and the time of legal trials is too long compared with most European countries. Hence, key words such as performance, effectiveness and in particular efficiency are worthy of attention. In this framework, our paper analyzes the efficiency of Italian judicial districts, using a Data Envelopment Analysis approach.

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  • Elisa Fusco & Martina Laurenzi & Bernardo Maggi, 2018. "A data envelopment analysis of the Italian judicial efficiency," DSS Empirical Economics and Econometrics Working Papers Series 2018/2, Centre for Empirical Economics and Econometrics, Department of Statistics, "Sapienza" University of Rome.
    • Handle: RePEc:sas:wpaper:20182
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    Cited by:

    1. Gustavo Ferro & Victoria Oubiña & Carlos A. Romero, 2019. "Benchmarking Labor Courts: an Efficiency Frontier Analysis," Asociación Argentina de Economía Política: Working Papers 4140, Asociación Argentina de Economía Política.
    2. Francesco Aiello & Graziella Bonanno & Francesco Foglia, 2021. "On The Heterogeneity In The Judicial Efficiency Literature: A Meta-Regression Analysis," Working Papers 202102, Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Economia, Statistica e Finanza "Giovanni Anania" - DESF.

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    Keywords

    Courts Efficiency; Law Enforcement; Productivity; Non-Parametric Methods; PCA;
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    JEL classification:

    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • K41 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Litigation Process
    • K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law

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