A Summary of the Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guidelines on Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia due to Steroid 21-Hydroxylase Deficiency

Steroid 21-hydroxylase deficiency accounts for about 95% of cases of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). Newborns are currently being screened for the classical forms of this disease throughout the United States and in 12 other countries. As such, it seems important to develop the best practice guidelines for treating not only infants and children, but affected adults as well. This report gives a brief overview of the most recent expert opinion and clinical practice guidelines for CAH as formulated by The Endocrine Society Task Force

Scandinavian Flagship Universities: an Appraisal of Leading National Universities in the European Context

In the immediate post-Sputnik era, Clark Kerr saw America’s breed of universities as “multiversities,” characterized by growing enrollment, an increasingly diversified academic community, and as the emerging driver of knowledge production and innovation (Kerr 2001: xi). This is now a widely shared vision throughout the world. Governments have provided additional funding, fueling further growth in academic programs and attracting talent. One result: the number of perceived stakeholders has increased, along with their expectations

EU mobility

The free movement of people and workers is one of the cornerstones of the EU. Intra-EU mobility has overwhelmingly benefited the citizens of EU member states, both in countries of work and countries of origin. Early concerns in destination countries about welfare migration and the crowding out of lesseducated workers have been broadly refuted. However, EU mobility policies still need a significant deepening and upgrading to deal with special cases of fraudulent contracts and crowding out in sub-sectors. What remains difficult is the full integration of some groups of mobile EU workers because of linguistic and cultural barriers. There is also a new challenge to EU policy: the integration of circular migrants. Here EU countries should be encouraged to harmonise administration and cut red tape

Institutional convergence and a lingering two-speed Euro area: a response

This contribution responds to the Comment entitled 'Institutional quality convergence in the Euro area countries: a note and further evidence' on our earlier published article in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Volume 28, Issue 3. By using the same data on Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law and Control of Corruption analysed in the Comment, we confirm the coexistence of certain processes of institutional convergence and, at the same time, a two-speed Euro area in institutional terms, with an increasing gap between core and periphery countries. These results help to complement and enrich their conclusions

Institutional convergence and a lingering two-speed Euro area: a response

This contribution responds to the Comment entitled 'Institutional quality convergence in the Euro area countries: a note and further evidence' on our earlier published article in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Volume 28, Issue 3. By using the same data on Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law and Control of Corruption analysed in the Comment, we confirm the coexistence of certain processes of institutional convergence and, at the same time, a two-speed Euro area in institutional terms, with an increasing gap between core and periphery countries. These results help to complement and enrich their conclusions

Institutional quality in the Euro area countries:any evidence of convergence?

Divergence in institutional quality across Euro area countries constitutes a risk for the smooth functioning of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), increasing the vulnerability of the Euro to negative economic shocks. In this paper, we examine potential institutional convergence across Euro area countries since the onset of the Great Recession (2008-2017). We focus on a range of institutional aspects closely connected with business performance, both in the public and private sphere. While no significant pattern in the evolution of institutional quality in relation to the initial level (beta-convergence) is observed, there is increasing dispersion (sigma-divergence) over the crisis period (2008-2014) and non-significant (beta- nor sigma-) convergence over the subsequent recovery period (2014-2017). Furthermore, an increasing gap in institutional quality between the core and the periphery countries is revealed, even more pronounced over the recovery period. The findings highlight that EU wide agreements to enhance institutional quality in periphery economies are highly advisable in order to increase the stability of the Euro