This paper proposes a non-parametric methodology to construct composite scores of citizen satisfaction with local police corpses. More precisely, the paper advocates a custom made version of the popular Data Envelopment Analysis approach, also referred to as the ‘Benefit-of-the-Doubt’-model....

The quality of institutions-meaning the quality of contract enforcement, property rights, shareholder protection, and the like-has received a great deal of attention in recent years. The purposes of this paper are twofold. First, it studies the consequences of trade when institutional...

En este trabajo presentamos un análisis crítico de algunas de las técnicas más aplicadas en la práctica para obtener medidas sintéticas a partir de un sistema de subindicadores previo. En el estudio de cada metodología identificamos las ventajas e inconvenientes asociadas a cada una de...