This work intends to assess current Quality Management System at Private Institution “USM” and develop recommendations in order to improve it based on existing issues. This topic is quite important to be studied as increasing ...

Kazakhstan stock exchange belongs to the category of the frontier market and the regulatory framework requires continuous development to preserve market integrity in this market. Even though there is no commonly accepted ...

Countries whose citizens have liberal ideals are less biased toward domestic equity. Data from 30 countries suggests that economic as well as social liberalism is associated with proportionally higher foreign equity ...

In model-free out-of-sample tests, we find that the optimal portfo lio of a utility maximizing investor trading in the S&P500 Index, cash, and index options bought at ask and written at bid prices stochas tically dominates ...

On tenge devaluation and switch to free float regime.

The current chapter looks at a grossly overlooked aspect affecting employee dignity in the workplace – the physical environment. While the knowledge economy has grown tremendously in the last four decades, researchers have ...

Portfolios of “patriotic” stocks earn economically significant positive abnormal returns when people feel more patriotic and excited about their country. We label this phenomenon “patriotic name bias”.

Over the past ten years we have seen how global corporations and their management practices are passing through serious tests. There is an urgent need to improve performance, to manage complex integrations, to reduce costs, ...

This study gets insight from a recently published article which finds out the predicting role of the “CFEAR” in the commodity futures market. It becomes interesting for me to check its robustness in a longer period. Due ...

We investigate whether there exist seasonal anomalies in the Kaza- khstan Stock Exchange (KASE) index. We focus on two well-known ef- fects in capital markets: day-of-the-week and month-of-the-year e ects af- ter ...