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| Title: | Advocatus, et non latro? Testing the Supplier-Induced-Demand Hypothesis for Italian Courts of Justice |
| Authors: | Buonanno, Paolo
Galizzi, Matteo M. |
| Authors (Email): | Buonanno, Paolo (paolo.buonanno@unibg.it) |
| Keywords: | Lawyers
Litigiosity
Causality |
| JEL Codes: | F22
J15
K42
R10 |
| Issue Date: | 2010-06 |
| Series/Report no.: | GC
52.2010 |
| Abstract: | We explore the relationship between litigation rates and the number of lawyers, in a typical supplier-induced demand (SID) frame. Drawing on an original panel dataset for the 169 Italian courts of justice between 2000 and 2007, we first document that the number of lawyers is positively correlated with different measures of litigation rate. Then, using an instrumental variables strategy we find that a 10 percent increase of lawyers over population is associated with an increase between 1.6 to 6 percent in civil litigation rates. Thus, our empirical analysis supports the SID hypothesis for the Italian lawyers: following an increase in their relative number, lawyers may exploit their informational advantage to induce clients to access to courts even when litigation is unnecessary or ineffective. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/90903 |
| Institution/Association: | Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)>Global Challenges Papers |
| Total Pages: | 35 |
| Collections: | Global Challenges Papers
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