Lawyers and legal disputes. Evidence from Italy

Elena D'Agostino School of Economics, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK; Department of Economics, Statistics, Mathematics and Sociology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Emiliano Sironi ‘Paolo Baffi’ Centre on Central Banking and Financial Regulation, Bocconi University, Milan, ItalyCorrespondence[email protected]

Giuseppe Sobbrio Department of Economics, Statistics, Mathematics and Sociology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Abstract

We test the hypothesis that, being clients not fully informed on the expected benefit from fulfilling the disputes and being incentives of lawyers not aligned to those of their clients, the demand for legal disputes in Italy is induced. This hypothesis finds empirical support for a sample of Italian legal districts.

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The authors would like to thank professor Leone Leonida for his helpful suggestions and comments in reading our paper.

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