Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Patault, Berengere; … - 2021
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 …