A settlement is an agreement between parties to a dispute. In everyday parlance and in academic scholarship, settlement … winner and announces a score. The “trial versus settlement” trope, however, represents a false choice; viewing settlement … and often does work. In this article, we describe and defend a much richer concept of settlement, amounting in effect to a …

settlement versus trial judgment. Exploiting the de facto random assignment of cases to serving judges within the court …'s chambers, we further find that judge characteristics matter for time to trial judgment, but not for time to settlement …

courts to examine the determinants of two salient adjudicatory outcomes: whether a case was resolved via trial or settlement …

Although an overwhelming proportion of all legal disputes end in settlement, the determinants of the timing of … settlement remain empirically underexplored. We draw on a novel dataset on the duration of commercial disputes in Slovenia to … study how the timing of settlement is shaped by the stages and features of the litigation process. Using competing risk …