This article presents a new perspective on ‘timeliness' through developing novel hypotheses and methodologies to explain behavioural and structural determinants of civil case disposition time. Our proposed more comprehensive methodology presents a powerful explanatory tool to inform future...

We conduct a two-stage (DEA and regression) analysis of the efficiency of New Zealand secondary schools. Unlike previous applications of two-stage semi-parametric modelling of the school Òproduction processÓ, we use Simar and WilsonÕs double bootstrap procedure, which permits valid inference...

This paper applies new tests for cointegration (Chao and Phillips, Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 91 (1999), pp. 279-304) and for cointegration-rank stability with unknown change point (Quintos, Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 82 (1998), pp. 289-315) to Canadian money demand. Historical data of...

This article analyses civil case disposition time by developing hypotheses to explain behavioral and structural determinants of so-called 'delay' and suggesting a novel methodology ('Echronometrics') to account for factors, operating at both macro and micro socio-economic levels, that influence...