Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Patault, Bérengère; … - 2020
Does labor court uncertainty and judge subjectivity influence firms performance? We study the economic consequences of … judge decisions by collecting information on more than 145,000 Appeal court rulings, combined with administrative firm …-level records covering the whole universe of French firms. The quasi-random assignment of judges to cases reveals that judge bias …