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  • The Economic Impact of Public Investment and Russian Import Ban on Russian Economy: A CGE Analysis 
    Kazymov, Ramin (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 ...
  • 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 effectiveness of screening program: The Case of Cardiovascular Diseases in Kazakhstan 
    Tabuldin, Ramazan (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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • The effect of remittances on labor supply. Evidence from Tajikistan 
    Tursynov, Maksat (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 ...
  • The effect of star power on movie success: evidence from the Kazakh cinema industry 
    Almaganbetov, Assylbek (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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Eliminating useless portfolios in constrained financial economies 
    Aouani, Zaier; Cornet, Bernard (Economic Theory, 2016-10-21)
    When financial investors’ portfolio holdings are unconstrained, financial economies are assumed, w.l.o.g., to have no redundant assets. Indeed, eliminating redundant assets allows to replace the initial financial structure ...
  • Entrepreneurship and education in the Russian Federation 
    Sanatova, Saltanat (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 ...
  • ENVIRONMENTAL COST OF MEAT CONSUMPTION: CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS 
    Yergabulova, Aigerim (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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF UNIDIMESIONALITY OF OPINIONS AND THE EFFECT OF HOMOPHILY 
    Maratova, Merey (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2019)
    The goal of the present paper is to experimentally test the unidimensionality of opinions and the effect of homophily on unidimensionality in terms of speed of convergence. The phenomenon of unidimensionality of opinions ...
  • FDI spillovers in the chinese manufacturing sector: evidence of firm heterogeneity 
    Abraham, Filip; Konings, Jozef; Slootmaekers, Veerle (Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2007-11)
    We use a new longitudinal data set of more than 15,000 Chinese manufacturing plants to show that the direct and indirect effects of foreign direct investment on measured firm level productivity depend on a number of firm ...
  • Heterogeneous responses of firms to trade protection 
    Konings, Jozef; Vandenbussche, Hylke (Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2008-02)
    This paper uses EU firm-level panel data to estimate the effect of Antidumping (AD) protection on the productivity of EU domestic firms in import-competing industries. We find that firms with relatively low initial ...
  • How do exporters react to changes in cost competitiveness? 
    Decramer, Stefaan; Fuss, Catherine; Konings, Jozef (European Central Bank, 2014-12)
    Policy-making institutions such as the European Commission, the ECB and the OECD often use unit labor costs as a measure of international competitiveness. The goal of this paper is to examine how well this measure is ...
  • THE IMPACT OF MOTHER’S VIOLENCE RATIONALIZATION ON THE SCHOOLING OF HER CHILDREN: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY 
    Koshkinova, Akerke (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2019)
    This study explores whether a mother’s rationalization of intimate partner violence against wives is associated with the school entry of her children. The study uses the Nepal Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey with the ...
  • The Impact of Remittances on Household Welfare: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan 
    Turarova, Naziya (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-04-01)
    n this paper I study the impact of remittances on household welfare in Kyrgyzstan. I deploy asset indices calculated using Principal Component Analysis and asset accumulation over four years (2010-2013) to measure the ...
  • 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 ...
  • THE IMPACT OF SUBSIDIES ON FIRM SALES IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES (CIS) 
    Sapar, Aizhan (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018)
    The aim of the following study is to investigate the impact of subsidies on firm sales in Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries. This study is based on the fifth round of Business Environment and Enterprise ...