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- Title
Real Effects of Judicial Enforcement.
- Authors
Pezone, Vincenzo
- Abstract
This article shows that judicial enforcement has substantial effects on firms' decisions with regard to their employment policies. To establish causality, I exploit a reorganization of the court districts in Italy involving judicial district mergers as a shock to court productivity. I find that an improvement in enforcement, as measured by a reduction in average trial length, has a large, positive effect on firm employment. The cross-sectional heterogeneity of the results suggests that stronger enforcement reduces financing constraints, boosting employment as a result, especially in firms characterized by higher complementarity between labor and capital. Moreover, in the presence of stronger enforcement, firms can raise more debt to dampen the impact of negative shocks and, in this way, reduce employment fluctuations. Consistent with this result, worker-level evidence shows that strong enforcement reduces the likelihood of unemployment.
- Subjects
ITALY; JUDICIAL reform; EMPLOYMENT policy; INDUSTRIAL relations; DISTRICT courts; MERGERS &; acquisitions; UNEMPLOYMENT insurance
- Publication
Review of Finance, 2023, Vol 27, Issue 3, p889
- ISSN
1572-3097
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/rof/rfac050