BARGAINING THROUGH AGENTS: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM MEXICO'S LABOUR COURTS PODCAST

EPISODE SIXTEEN

 

Well-functioning courts are essential for the health of both financial and real economies. Courts function poorly in most low-income countries, but the root causes of poor performance are not well understood. In this episode, researchers discuss using field experiments with ongoing cases to analyse sources of dysfunction in Mexico's largest labour court.


Project location: Mexico       Read the transcript      Published  30 January 2025

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SPEAKERS

Joyce Sadka

Head of Law Department and Researcher in Law and Economics
Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico

Enrique Seira

Frederick S. Addy Distinguished Chair of Economics
University of Michigan

Christopher Woodruff

Professor of Development Economics

University of Oxford

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT

Review of Economic Studies Paper

Information and Bargaining through Agents: Experimental Evidence from Mexico's Labour Courts

Joyce Sadka, Enrique Seira, Christopher Woodruff

The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 91, Issue 6, November 2024, Pages 3677–3711,