L’efficienza tecnica dei distretti di corte d’appello italiani: aspetti metodologici, benchmarking e arretrato smaltibile

We estimate by means of DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) the technical efficiency of Italy's district courts. The identification of benchmarks allow us to measure, for each inefficient court, the feasible caseload reduction, i.e. the fraction of backlog cases that can be removed by emulating the best practices. Finally, we try to capture through a Tobit regression the influence on measured inefficiency scores of localized socio-economic factors.