Determinants of the Duration of European Appellate Court Proceedings in Cartel Cases
研究了2000至2012年间欧洲委员会裁定的54个卡特尔案件的263项上诉判决，发现一审上诉速度受案件复杂性、规则清晰度及美国调查影响，而二审则不受这些因素影响。
Abstract The duration of appellate court proceedings is an important determinant of the efficiency of a court system. We use data of 263 appeals decisions referring to 54 cartels convicted by the European Commission between 2000 and 2012 to investigate the determinants of the duration of the subsequent one‐ or two‐stage appeals process. We find that while the speed of first‐stage appellate court decisions depend, inter alia, on authority‐related factors such as the complexity of the case, the clarity of the applied rules and regulations and previous or simultaneous US investigations, the second‐stage appellate court proceedings appear to be largely unaffected by those drivers.