Quality assessment in healthcare systems is challenging due to the multidimensional nature of healthcare services. This study evaluates the overall quality provided by hospitals using composite indicators under the Benefit of the Doubt (BoD) approach, which determines the weights of the...

The aim of this study is to examine the role of institutional quality and its pillars on the cost efficiency of social services provided by local governments in Italy. To this end, a new advancement of panel cost stochastic frontier analysis is utilized to estimate how much institutional quality...