Jointly with University of Napoli Federico II, Università Commerciale “Luigi Bocconi”, and University of Sassari, CSEF has organized the conference on Courts, Banks and Firms, with financial support provided by the Italian Ministry for Universities and Scientific Research (MURST). 

It was held in Naples on 11 May 2001 at the “Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa”. The main purpose of this event was to provide a meeting point for judges and lawyers on one side and economists on the other to discuss the economic effects of judicial system efficiency and the determinants of the current malfunctioning of the Italian judicial system. 

The workshop was made of two sessions. The morning session was devoted to the presentation of four papers by economists, each followed by a brief discussion by lawyers. In the afternoon session, instead, judges and lawyers talked about the performance of the judicial system in Italy, and answered questions from economists.