African East-Asian Affairs

East Asian Currency Union

This paper analyzes the feasibility of various types of currency unions, such as a dollar bloc, Euro bloc, Yen bloc, and basket currency bloc in East Asia, and empirically estimates welfare effects of a currency union for East Asian economies. Judging from optimum currency area (OCA) criteria, including the symmetry of output and price shocks across countries, commitment to price stability, and...

Are East Asian Versus Ability

The first systematic cross-national study of mathematical abilities was conducted in 1964 (Hu#n, 1967). The results of this study showed that American adolescents were among the most poorly educated students in mathematics in the industrialized world. In the ensuing 30 years, this basic finding has been replicated many times and has been shown to be true for nearly all mathematical domains, fro...

Were East Asian Currencies Overvalued?

College of East Asian Studies

The College of East Asian Studies (CEAS) challenges students to understand China, Japan, and Korea through the rigors of language study and the analytical tools of various academic disciplines. This process demands both broad exposure to different subjects and a focused perspective on a particular feature of the East Asian landscape. Japan, China, and Korea are related yet distinctive civilizat...

East Asian monsoon and paleovegetation

1 CEREGE, CNRS/Université Paul Cézanne UMR 6635, BP 80, 13545 Aix-en-Provence cedex, France 2 SKLL, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xian 710075, China 3 Institut des Sciences de l’Environnement, UQAM, Montréal PQ, H3C 3P8 Canada 4 Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 634, 100029 Beijing, China 5 Institute of Botany, Chinese Acad...