• THE OCCURRENCE OF LIFE-THREATENING DISEASES AND HEALTH INSURANCE CHOICE 

  Ramankulova, Gulnaz (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  This thesis studies the impact of life-threatening illnesses on individuals’ health insurance choice. After experiencing health shock, an individual makes both immediate and long-term adjustments to insurance decisions. ...
• RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, EMPLOYMENT CHOICES AND GENDER NORMS 

  Talapkerova, Lola (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  Religious values do not disappear in modern society: they adapt and continue to shape the consciousness of people worldwide. This paper studies how religious beliefs influence people’s economic decisions and their gender ...
• DPRK AND THE CTBT: WHAT COULD COME NEXT AFTER THE MORATORIUM? 

  Mukatay, Zhaniya; Niu, Qiyang; Kim, Haeyoon (Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2022)

  At the 25th anniversary of the opening for signature of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), this paper seizes the opportunity of a self-imposed nuclear test moratorium by the Democratic People’s Republic of ...
• PROFIT SHARING AND INCENTIVES 

  Ozdenoren, Emre; Rubanov, Oleg (International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2022)

  We model a firm as a team production process subject to moral hazard and derive the optimal profit sharing scheme between productive workers and outside investors together with incentive contracts based on noisy performance ...
• 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 ...
• TRADE CREDIT AND FINANCIAL CRISES IN KAZAKHSTAN 

  Adilkhanova, Zarina; Nurlankul, Aruzhan; Token, Aizat; Yavuzoglu, Berk (Journal of Asian Economics, 2022)

  This paper studies the trade credit and delinquency behavior in Kazakhstan paying attention to the effects of two recent crises using a unique dataset of large firms and SMEs from the year 2009 to 2016. Our estimates ...
• THE EFFECT OF ANTI-TOBACCO POLICIES IN RUSSIA ON FILTERED CIGARETTES CONSUMPTION 

  Dyussembayeva, Gulnar (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2022-05)

  In 2013, the anti-tobacco policy in the Russian Federation was changed substantially as a result of joining the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. This paper analyzes the effect of these anti-tobacco measures ...
• DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN EARLY AND POST-GRADUATION WORK EXPERIENCE: THE EFFECT OF WORKING WHILE STUDYING AT UNIVERSITY ON FUTURE LABOR MARKET PRODUCTIVITY IN RUSSIA 

  Andrus, Yuliya (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2022-05)

  This study examines the effect of early work experience on future labor market outcomes in Russia, taking into account the work intensity. The paper aims to identify the wage returns associated with working while studying ...
• MATERNITY CAPITAL AND THE MOTHERHOOD WAGE PENALTY: EVIDENCE FROM RUSSIA 

  Rustem, Kenzhetayev (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2022-05)

  This paper analyzes the implications of the maternity capital policy on the earnings of mothers with one or two children under 18 in Russia. The main goals of this paper are to obtain the most recent estimates of the ...
• THE EFFECTS OF COVID-19-RELATED DRIVING RESTRICTIONS ON AIR QUALITY IN AN INDUSTRIAL CITY 

  Assanov, Daulet; Kerimray, Aiymgul; Batkeyev, Birzhan; Kapsalyamova, Zhanna (AAGR Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 2021-05-21)

  To slow the spread of COVID-19, the state of emergency was announced in Kazakhstan on March 16, 2020. Ust-Kamenogorsk instituted COVID-19 lockdown measures on April 2, 2020. The restrictions reduced the flow of traffic in ...
• THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL DISTANCING ON BOX-OFFICE REVENUE: EVIDENCE FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 

  Kim, Kyung (Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 2020-10-21)

  In this paper, I study the short-run effect of social distancing due to the COVID-19 outbreak on movie demand and box-office revenue. Using longitudinal data on the Korean movie theater industry, I first estimate a nested ...
• WHY ENERGY ACCESS IS NOT ENOUGH FOR CHOOSING CLEAN COOKING FUELS? EVIDENCE FROM THE MULTINOMIAL LOGIT MODEL 

  Kapsalyamova, Zhanna; Mishra, Ranjeeta; Kerimray, Aiymgul; Karymshakov, Kamalbek; Azhgaliyeva, Dina (Academic Press, 2021-05-11)

  The transition to sustainable energy requires an assessment of drivers of the use of clean and dirty fuels for cooking. Literature highlights the importance of access to clean fuel for switching from dirty fuels to clean ...
• 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 ...
• EXCHANGE RATE DYNAMICS AND MONETARY POLICY IN A SMALL OPEN ECONOMY: A DSGE MODEL FOR KAZAKHSTAN 

  Kabzhalyalova, Madina (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)

  Shift to floating exchange rate regime is controversial decision to commodity oriented economy of Kazakhstan. Increase in volatility of nominal exchange rate is believed to bring deterioration of main macroeconomic ...
• EFFECT OF NEGATIVE INTEREST RATE POLICY (NIRP) ON BANK PROFITABILITY: CROSS-COUNTRY ECONOMETRIC STUDY 

  Kopbayev, Alim (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)

  The Negative Interest Rate Policy (NIRP) introduction was dictated with an expansionary motive of the central banks. Unconventional monetary policy is still not fully analyzed, and there are no signs that in the future ...
• TRADE VERSUS BANK CREDIT 

  Token, Aizat (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)

  This study analyzes the relationship between trade and bank credit, considering them as jointly determined variables. The relative sizes of bank and trade credit to sales are modeled in a two-equation system, allowing ...
• EDUCATION ACROSS THE RURAL-URBAN SPECTRUM IN NIGER 

  Zhakhina, Aiym (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06-23)

  This paper investigates whether and how key education indicators for children of school-going age differ across rural-urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa. Data from the World Inequality Database on Education (WIDE) reveals ...
• The Effect of the Recent Anti-Tobacco Policies on Curbing Smoking in Kazakhstan 

  Bakbergenova, Meruyert (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020)

  This paper analyzes the effects of recent tobacco control policies on smoking behavior in Kazakhstan. Exploiting data on cigarette smoking from the Global Adults Tobacco Survey (GATS) collected in 2014 and the Multiple ...
• 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 ...
• Backward algorithm and abstract graphs in zero-sum games 

  Iklassov, Zangir (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-05-01)

  With the beginning of the computer age, solving many problems in game theory has become easier. However, there is a whole class of well-known problems such as chess, checkers, go and so on, the methods of solving which ...

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