Tax evasion is a serious problem in both developed and developing countries. In our study, we want to show that banking outreach and the depth and quality of credit information systems play an important role in decreasing ...

Portfolio optimization ought to provide investors with an asset allocation strategy that outperforms the market. As a foundation of all portfolio optimization strategies, standard mean-variance optimization (MVO) strategy ...

This academic paper explores a dual-focused investigation aimed at enhancing the quality of university education, specifically addressing the organization of annual student internships and the development of the “Code ...

Imprecise theories do not give enough guidelines for empirical analyses. A paradigmatic shift from linear to curvilinear relationships is necessary to advance management theories. Within the framework of the abductive ...

The purpose of this work is to study and compare existing models and methods, and build an optimal model for forecasting inflation in Kazakhstan, taking into account seasonal adjustment of CPI. This paper compares the ...

This project explores gender-based leadership barriers experienced by Kazakhstani female executives.

Sensemaking theory suggests that sensemaking may collapse when perception fails to detect weak signals of changes in the environment, cognition fails to appropriately categorize the new data coming from perception, and ...

This paper explores the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on aggregate employment in Belgium. To this end, we use microdata of all Belgian frms and apply a machine learning-based approach to simulate the impact of the ...

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 ...