01610cas a2200229 a 4500 AALejournalIMF021501 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781513569383 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Judge Bias in Labor Courts and Firm Performance. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2021. 1 online resource (72 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Does labor court uncertainty and judge subjectivity influence firms' performance? We study the economic consequences of judge decisions by collecting information on more than 145,000 Appeal court rulings, combined with administrative firm-level records covering the whole universe of French firms. The quasi-random assignment of judges to cases reveals that judge bias has statistically significant effects on the survival, employment, and sales of small low-performing firms. However, we find that the uncertainty associated with the actual dispersion of judge bias is small and has a non-significant impact on their average outcomes. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2021/031 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2021/031/001.2021.issue-031-en.xml IMF e-Library