Performance of the Public Defense of Ecuador from the Principal-Agent Model

Abstract

In this article an analysis of the performance of the public defense of Ecuador is carried out with the objective of identifying administrative factors that affect the efficiency of this institution to propose solutions that allow an improvement in its performance since in recent years there has been a lack of productivity In this body, which is pernicious to consider that the exercise of the rights of many people in the country depends on their actions. In this project, through the introduction of the principal-agent model, the importance of the costs of agency in the results of the work of the public defense, as manager, and the damages that the citizenship receives as principal is explained. Some incentives to combat the problem of agency in public institutions are analyzed and finally the conclusion is reached that the inefficient performance of public defense lies in a structural problem of the Ecuadorian public administration.

KEYWORDS: productivity, costs of agency, public defense, administrative litigation, incentive.

JEL CODE: L44, L51