Erschienen in:Bank of Italy Temi di Discussione (Working Paper) ; No. 898
Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (45 p)
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.2221857
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments January 30, 2013 erstellt
Beschreibung:
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