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This paper estimates the impact of a procedural reform on the efficiency and quality of adjudication in Senegal. The reform gave judges the duty and powers to conclude pre-trial proceedings within four months. A staggered rollout and three years of high-frequency data on court cases are combined to construct an event study. Estimates suggest a reduction in pre-trial formalism: duration decreases by 46 days, the number of hearings is reduced, and judges impose more deadlines. The effects are similar for small and large cases, and across slow and fast judges. Quality does not appear to be adversely affected, while firms positively value faster adjudication.
This report examines the legal approaches of fifteen countries, representing all regions of the world, to the emerging problem of manipulation with “fake news” using mass and social media, especially the impact of fake news on ongoing pol...
A growing body of work suggests that cross-country differences in legal origin help explain differences in financial development. Beck, Demirgiuc-Kunt, and Levine assess two theories of why legal origin influences financial development. First, the &q...
This paper is motivated by the emphasis on secure property rights as a determinant of economic development in recent literature. The authors use village and household level information from about 800 villages throughout China to explore whether legal...
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