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The duration of judicial deliberation : evidence from Belgium
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Author
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Abstract
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| We utilize case-level data from a large Belgian court to study a policy-relevant but thus far empirically unexplored aspect of judicial behavior: the time that a judge takes to deliberate on a case before rendering a verdict. Exploiting the de facto random administrative assignment of filed cases among the serving judges and using survival-analysis methods, we find that the duration of judicial deliberation varies not only with measures of case complexity, but also with judge and disputing-party characteristics. We further find evidence consistent with the hypothesis that longer judicial deliberation improves the quality of judicial decisions. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Journal of institutional and theoretical economics. - Tübingen
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GESAMTE STAATSWISSENSCHAFT
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Publication
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Tübingen
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2018
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ISSN
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0932-4569
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DOI
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10.1628/093245617X14926792029174
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Volume/pages
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174
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(2018)
, p. 303-333
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ISI
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000440242600003
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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