In this paper we investigate the relationship between the number of lawyers and civil litigation across Italian … and litigation. We then employ a 2SLS approach to verify the existence of a causal effect. We use as an exogenous source … results show that the number of lawyers has a positive effect on litigation and that the magnitude of this effect is large. …

Despite accounting for a significant fraction of total litigation in Italy, small claims litigation has so far received … provides a thorough description of the time trend and geographical distribution of small claims litigation in Italy in the … period 2001-2008. Further, it empirically evaluates the impact of different socio-economic variables on litigation. We find …