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  • OIL PRICES AND REAL EXCHANGE RATES 
    Alpysbayeva, Dinara (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017)
    Fluctuations in oil prices during the last decade have reignited the interest in the \Dutch Disease" hypothesis. The paper aims at identifying the presence of the Dutch Disease and at assessing the importance of choosing ...
  • OIL PRICE SHOCKS AND GREEN BONDS: AN EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 
    Azhgaliyeva, Dina; Kapsalyamova, Zhanna; Mishra, Ranjeeta (Energy Economics, 2022)
    This paper contributes to the existing literature by investigating the impacts of crude oil price shocks on financial markets through an examination of the effect of oil price shocks on the issuance of corporate green ...
  • Pass-on trade: Why do firms simultaneously engage in two-way trade in the same varieties? 
    P. Damijan, Jože; Konings, Jozef; Polanec, Sašo (LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, 2012-05)
    This paper documents that a large fraction of trade flows at the firm level consists of simultaneous imports and exports in identical products, narrowly defined at the 8-digit product classification, which we call Pass-On ...
  • Pension reforms in Kazakhstan using an OLG model 
    Abdikarim, Uldana (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-07-28)
    The aim of this paper was to study the effects of recently introduced pension reform in Kazakhstan on the welfare of the country. The effect of increase in mandatory retirement age for women from 58 to 63 was of primary ...
  • Personal bankruptcy filing behavior: the case of youth in the U.S. 
    BISSENBINA, ASSEMGUL (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017-05-29)
    The current study analyzes personal bankruptcy ling behavior of young Americans born in the period from 1980 to 1984. Using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), I nd the importance of demographic and ...
  • Power-Law Distributions in Economics: Empirical Evidence for an Emerging Economy, Kazakhstan 
    Matayev, Chingis (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018-04-13)
    Heterogeneity between workers, firms or regions is an aspect in macroeconomics that has been largely overlooked. Typically, a representative agent approach is followed, like the respresentative firm or worker in an economy. ...
  • Predictive powers of tests of risk and loss Aversion in a principal-agent context: an Experiment 
    Abken, Amre (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018)
    The goal of this experimental study is to demonstrate that the test of loss-aversion has a superior predictive power than the standard test of risk-aversion over behavior in risky situations that involve potential losses, ...
  • Resale in second-price auctions with costly participation 
    Celik, Gorkem; Yilankaya, Okan (International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2017-09-01)
    Abstract We study sealed-bid second-price auctions with costly participation and resale. Each bidder chooses to participate in the auction if her valuation is higher than her optimally chosen participation cutoff. If resale ...
  • Return to the countryside: The return intentions of highly educated young people in the Akmola province of northern Kazakhstan 
    Sagyndykova, Galiya; Buchenrieder, Gertrud; Dufhues, Thomas; Möllers, Judith; Runschke, David (Wiley, 2019-10-19)
    The rural out‐migration of young people leads to problems such as “brain drain” and the overageing of the rural population. The purpose of this paper is to study return migration motives among students originating from ...
  • RISKY INVESTMENT DECISIONS OF THE ELDERLY 
    Kaldarov, Sanzhar (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)
    This paper analyzes the risky investment decisions of the elderly in the United States. Utilizing the Health and Retirement Study data for 2002-2008, I first exam ine the effects of different factors on risky asset ownership ...
  • The Short-Term Wage Growth Rate After Unemployment: The Case of Unemployment in Russia 
    Issimbayeva, Gulmira (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-04-29)
    Issimbayeva, G. (2020). The Short-Term Wage Growth Rate After Unemployment: The Case of Unemployment in Russia (Master’s thesis, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan). Retrieved from https://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle ...
  • Spatial electricity market data for the power system of Kazakhstan 
    Assembayeva, M.; Egerer, Jonas; Mendelevitch, Roman; Zhakiyev, Nurkhat (ELSEVIER, 2019-04)
    The data presented in this article are related to the research article “A spatial electricity market model for the power system: The Kazakhstan case study” (M. Assembayeva et al. 2018). This data article presents information ...
  • Staying home or moving away? The effect of restructuring on employment in multinational enterprises 
    Abraham, Filip; Goesaert, Tim; Konings, Jozef (Algemeen secretariaat – Steunpunt beleidsrelevant Onderzoek Fiscaliteit & Begroting, 2012-01)
    This paper analyzes the geographic dispersion of employment restructuring in multinational enterprises, where we distinguish between headquarters and geographically dispersed affili- ates. To this end, we use data of 255 ...
  • TELECOMMUNICATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 
    Assylbek, Yerbolat (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017)
    The study examines the evidence of the impact of the telecommunication infrastructure on economic growth. First, the paper investigates relationship between the mobile/land-line phones and the economic growth by using ...
  • Testing the pecking order theory of Capital structure: Kazakhstan Experience 
    Sultanov, Bernar (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018-05-10)
    The aim of this work is to test whether publicly available companies from Kazakhstan follow the pecking order theory of capital structure in their financial decisions. We defined the importance of the financial leverage ...
  • THE DETERMINANTS OF FIRM EXIT IN AN EMERGING ECONOMY: EVIDENCE FROM KAZAKHSTAN 
    Karimov, Shyngys (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017)
    This paper examines the determinants of firm exit in emerging economy of Kazakhstan. Using cross-sectional data of all legal entities in Kazakhstan, I show that mature firms (5- 10 years) are more likely to fail than ...
  • The Effect of Financial Literacy and Internal Migration on Financial Inclusion in Kazakhstan 
    Nurgaliyeva, Akerke (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017)
    Recently, fi nancial literacy has been an important issue to discuss all over the world. By increasing the financial literacy level of a nation, we can improve the welfare level of the country. Kazakhstan has not been ...
  • The effect of globalization on union bargaining and price-cost margins of firms 
    Abraham, Filip; Konings, Jozef; Vanormelingen, Stijn (LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, 2007-01)
    In recent years, Europe has witnessed an accelerated process of economic integration. Trade barriers were removed, the euro was introduced and ten new member states have joined the European Union. This paper analyzes how ...
  • The firm size distribution and inter-industry diversification 
    Hutchinson, John; Konings, Jozef; Paul Walsh, Patrick (UCD GEARY INSTITUTE, 2009-08)
    We show that the stylized facts of the Firm Size Distribution (FSD) by age cohorts, as shown in Cabral and Mata (2003), bind within 4-digit manufacturing industries in the UK and Belgium. As in Klepper and Thompson (2006) ...
  • The impact of training on productivity and wages: firm level evidence 
    Konings, Jozef; Vanormelingen, Stijn (Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2009-09)
    This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this end the strategy proposed by Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer (2006) for estimating production functions ...