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Judicial Incentives and Performance at Lower Courts
Valentina P. Dimitrova-Grajzl
Peter Grajžl
Janez Šušteršič
Katarina Zajc
其他書名
Evidence from Slovenian Judge-Level Data
出版
SSRN
, 2010
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mIhPMwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Empirical studies of judicial behavior using judge-level data are scarce and almost exclusively focused on higher court judges in the U.S. The majority of disputes in any legal system, however, are adjudicated by lower court judges and conclusions about judicial behavior from one legal system cannot be generalized to other legal systems. This paper draws on unique judge-level data to study judicial performance at lower courts in Slovenia, a post-socialist member state of the European Union struggling with implementation of an effective judicial system. We first examine the determinants of judicial productivity and elucidate the role of a judge's demographic characteristics, education, experience, salary, promotion concerns, and case specialization. We then explore the possible trade off between the quantity and quality of judicial case resolution, shedding light on the benefits and costs of those legal reform measures that aim to increase judicial productivity in Slovenian lower courts.
