Can procedural reforms improve judicial efficiency? And do improvements in judicial efficiency benefit firms? The authors study a reform that gave judges in Senegal the powers to desk reject cases and the responsibility to complete pre-trials within four months. They combine three years of hearing-level caseload data and monthly firm tax filings with the staggered roll-out of the reform to produce three key results. First, the reform improved judicial...
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2018/03/22
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS8372
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2018/03/22
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Disclosed
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The speed of justice
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development research group