In many markets there is some form of regulation; and when new policy measures are introduced into a particular sector, the question of how to structure an adequate regulatory process arises. This paper contributes to the literature by describing the approach taken in the nursing home sector in...

This paper shows that the use of excessively aggregated organizational units in a benchmarking study may skew the evaluation. The most aggregated or consolidated units receive excessively harsh evaluations. The paper also proposes a method for compensating the possible consolidation bias by...