ABSTRACT

Focusing on the Italian judicial system as our case study, we use Data Envelopment Analysis to estimate technical efficiency scores and reference values for policy makers. In detail, this work presents a comparative analysis of different model definitions to identify the most appropriate one, emphasizing the key role of case matters in this production process. According to our results, the North of Italy emerges as more efficient than the other Italian macro areas, although the gap significantly decreases when case matters are considered in the output estimation. Concerning the collected reference values, which might be adopted by policy makers to reform the judicial system, we can observe significant differences able to affect the reorganization of courts. Taking the proposed case study into account, it seems that improvements in court performance could be achieved by reforming civil procedures, which are the technologies applied by judges in their production process.

摘要

我们以意大利司法系统为案例研究，我们使用数据包络分析来估算技术效率得分和决策者参考值。详细地讲，这项工作对不同的模型定义进行了比较分析，以确定最合适的模型，并强调了案例在生产过程中的关键作用。根据我们的结果，尽管在产量估算中考虑案例问题时，差距明显缩小，但意大利北部的效率要高于其他意大利宏观地区。关于收集的参考值，决策者可能会采用这些参考值来改革司法系统，我们可以观察到能够影响法院重组的重大差异。考虑到建议的案例研究，