Agricultural subsidies are an important strategy of the European Union, for improving farm incomes, economic consolidation of the agricultural sector, raising living standards and thus ensuring food security. This paper tries to answer at two questions. First, if there were significant changes...

Because verdicts are typically the more costly resolution of legal disputes, most governments are interested in high settlement rates. In this paper, we use a unique dataset of 860 case records from a German trial court to explore which factors have a significant impact on the decision to settle...