Firm Size and Judicial Efficiency : Evidence from the Neighbour's Court

We investigate the causal relationship between judicial efficiency and firm size across Italian municipalities exploiting spatial discontinuities in court jurisdictions for identification. The estimated coefficients suggest that the reduction of the length of civil proceedings could exert, all other things being equal, a significant and positive effect on the average size of Italian firms. Results are robust to a number of different specifications, based on two different databases

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Giacomelli, Silvia
Other Persons:	Menon, Carlo (contributor)
Publisher:	[2013]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Betriebsgröße \| Firm size \| Rechtsordnung \| Legal system \| Zivilprozess \| Civil litigation \| Italien \| Italy \| Dauer \| Duration \| Räumliche Verteilung \| Spatial distribution \| Institutionelle Infrastruktur \| Institutional infrastructure

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (45 p)
Series:	Bank of Italy Temi di Discussione (Working Paper) ; No. 898
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments January 30, 2013 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.2221857 [DOI]
Classification:	K4 - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior ; L11 - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure Size; Size Distribution of Firms ; O18 - Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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