Tent pegs for clathrin

Managing Currency Pegs

When confronted with the current crisis in peripheral Europe, many specialists in emerging-market macroeconomics feel that it is déjà vu all over again. An implication of this feeling is that in order to understand the current situation in southern Europe, one should dust off the theories of exchange-rate crises that were motivated by the economic experience under fixed exchange rates in Latin ...

Pegs and Alecs

A major problem in semantics is the question how identity statements can be informative. To answer this question we have to determine what the status is of the objects that language users talk about when they exchange information. It is argued that the assumption of discourse representation theory, that these objects are variables in some representation, leads to problems. To cope with these pr...

Clinical 'Hat Pegs' for Students and Graduates

Uncertainty shocks and currency pegs∗

Uncertainty shocks cause economic activity to contract and more so, if monetary policy is constrained by an effective lower bound on interest rates. In this paper, we investigate whether countries with a currency peg or countries within currency unions are also particularly prone to suffer from the adverse effects of heightened uncertainty because they lack monetary independence. First, we esti...

Stability of small pegs for cementless implant fixation

Most glenoid implants rely on large centrally located fixation features to avoid perforation of the glenoid vault in its peripheral regions. Upon revision of such components there may not be enough bone left for the reinsertion of an anatomical prosthesis. Multiple press-fit small pegs would allow for less bone resection and strong anchoring in the stiffer and denser peripheral subchondral bone...