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Além Dos "Achismos", Do Senso Comum E Das Evidências Anedóticas: Uma Análise Econômica Do Judiciário Brasileiro, Luciana L. Yeung

Luciana L Yeung

Inefficiency in Brazilian courts has long been discussed within academic and business circles. Most of the discussion, however, is based on personal “feelings”, common sense, and anecdotal evidence. Almost no empirical or quantitative research has ever been carried out in the national literature.

This dissertation offers a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the Brazilian Judiciary, using the perspectives of the Economic Analysis of Law (or Law and Economics). First, it discusses how institutions, in general, and legal institutions, in particular, became subjects of interest for economists. This has to do with the development of Institutional Economics, and more precisely, New …