Coviello, Decio; Moretti, Luigi; Spagnolo, Giancarlo; … - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2013
Italian public procurement contracts, we study the effects of the inefficiency of the local law courts on the delay with which … contractors deliver public works. First we sketch a simple model to see how inefficient law courts - i.e. those characterized by … to avoid costly disputes in court. Then our empirical findings show that, where the local law courts are inefficient: i …