NOTES ON EAST ASIAN PLATOR (ARANEAE, GNAPHOSOIDEA)

An Organ of Stridulation in East Asian Hexathelid Spiders (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)

An organ of stridulation is described from Macrothele gigas Shimojana et Haupt, 1998 (Araneae, Hexathelidae). One part is located on the retrolateral side of the pedipalpal trochanter and its counterpart is a specialized structure on the anterolateral side of the first leg's trochanter. Stridulation facilities occur in both sexes. This descripton emphazises differences between large and smaller...

Cautionary Notes on Asian Economic Integration

Introduction Economic integration and cooperation in Asia has traditionally been more market-driven and institution-lite. The Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) in 1997/98 and the Great Recession in 2008 changed that. As the number of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in Asia increases, intraregional trade has intensified and it continues to grow. In the financial side, the cross-border holding of financial...

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?