The HCHE (Hamburg Center for Health Economics ) has just received funding for a Research Training Group ‘Managerial and economic dimensions of health care quality’ through the public national research funding scheme (German Research Foundation, DFG). We aim to provide a view of quality of care that is as comprehensive as possible. Our research agenda will focus on the relationship between processes and outcomes in a range of contexts. Our interdisciplinary group of health economists will draw upon backgrounds in economics, business administration and medicine and combine econometric, experimental and theoretical methods.