| Summary: | In order to turn litigation more efficient in Brazil, by bringing it closer to socially desirable levels, the Civil Procedure Code of 2015 envisaged or improved four important procedural institutes: conciliation and mediation; precedents system; fines and sucumbencial fees; and attribution of binding effects to extraordinary remedies with general repercussions. Based on the theoretical basis of the Economic Analysis of Litigation and through applied research adopting the hypothetical-deductive method, the present study concludes that, although the mentioned institutes have not immediately resulted in quantitative improvement of litigation numbers, they work as mechanisms to discourage frivolous litigation, including remedies to only delay the process, to seek self-solving solutions, to minimize the bias of optimism, and to reduce the information asymmetry.
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