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Browsing Theses and Dissertations by Type "Master's thesis"
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-05-15)We use factor models to assess accuracy of macroeconomic performance indicators in Kazakhstan over 2011-2018. Specifically, the annual GDP growth rate and unemployment rate are analyzed based on the fundamental factors ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018)This research analyzes the attitudes towards immigrants in Germany from 2004 to 2016 and tries to uncover the determinants behind, using an ordered logit regression model. My findings suggest that high income, university ...
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(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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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018)The influence of individual’s belief in God and other factors, such as religiousity, education, perception of happiness, et cetera, on altruistic behavior was empirically examined during this study. It was discovered that ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018)This study aims to investigate the determinants of capital structure in Kazakhstan and to analyze the e ects of the 2015 nancial crisis in Kazakhstan on the determinants of the capital structure of large rms. The ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017)This paper examines the determinants of non-performing loans (NPLs) in Kazakhstan’s banking sector for aggregate volume of bad loans. In particular, it investigates the impact of macroeconomic and bank specific factors ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018-04-13)This paper analyses the regional SME development and estimates SME productivity determinants using panel data. Productivity of SME was estimated as a ratio of SME output and employed in SME. As determinants of SME industry ...
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(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 ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017)This paper evaluates the impacts of a differentiated wage system on polyclinics performance in Kazakhstan. The government introduced this new system in order to improve health care provided by polyclinics. I use data for ...
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The Economic Impact of Public Investment and Russian Import Ban on Russian Economy: A CGE Analysis (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-05-02)In this study, we estimate the impact of Russian import ban and change in public investment on the economy of Russia, mainly on the sectoral production. We apply the recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium model ...
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(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 ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017-12-11)Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are ones of the major death-causing issues in Kazakhstan which are needed to be solved. Diferent pro- grams have been implemented in order to reduce the incidence of CVDs and the screening ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018)This research analyzes the effect of remittances on the labor supply in the Republic of Tajikistan. In order to observe this impact we use IV-Tobit regression that alows to control for endogeneity and self-selection problem ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018)This paper studies the relationship between "star power" and movie success using the novel weekly box-office revenue data for Kazakhstan. We focus on an often overlooked problem of competition between movie casts by ...
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(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 ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018)Successful establishment of business requires certain abilities and skills, which can be generated with the higher level of education. In this paper, I estimate the effect of education on the probability of enterprise ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017)Taxing meat consumption could be an important tool to mitigate negative effects of meat production on the environment (Wirsenius et al., 2011). Tax impact strongly depends on consumer preferences and household income. This ...
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(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 ...
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