In 2015 Narxoz University introduced a major change to its academic policy. Final year bachelor students were required to complete team-based diploma projects, focused on solving real business problems, instead of writing standard, often purely descriptive and theoretical diploma theses. This...

Big Data has become a buzz word. It is the next big thing that every corporation should invest in. It is said to bring hundreds of billions dollars in benefits to consumers. In this concept paper I show that Big Data is a tool that will allow corporations to take away consumer surplus from...

The teaching methodology at many universities in Kazakhstan is traditional: a lecture where professor talks and students listen, with little or no interaction, and a seminar that offers practical applications. Students follow the precisely prescribed path, regulated by the Ministry of Education,...

W tym artykule zostały przeanalizowane dane o innowacyjności polskiej gospodarki w latach 2006 i 2012, czyli na początku i pod koniec obecnej perspektywy finansowej. Większość analizowanych danych wskazuje na spadek innowacyjności, niektóre na silny spadek, a tylko nieliczne dokumentują...

Polish Abstract: Ten raport prezentuje pełne wyniki badania nad realizacją interesów grupowych w procesie legislacyjnym w Polsce, które zostały przeprowadzone na próbie 1365 ustaw uchwalonych w latach 1990-2011. Takie badania zostało przeprowadzone po raz pierwszy w Polsce. Raport...

During the last decade, derivatives markets became an asset class of their own and influenced the financial landscape strongly. While the financial sector contributes positively to overall economic growth in many studies up to the mid nineties, a positive contribution of the financial sector to...

This is probably the first ever analysis of sell-side daily economic research to use Natural Language Processing, and it shows that the narrative of such reports can be used to predict economic time series. The NLP indexes are based on Polish and English language reports released at the same...

Purpose: This paper aims to analyse the relationship between two measures of university quality, the outcome and other characteristics of a mandatory accreditation and the university position in the national ranking.Design/methodology/approachNatural language processing (NLP) models are used to...

This article presents the first ever ranking of professional forecasters based on the predictive power of the narrative of their regular research reports. The ranking is generated by applying the fully automated four-step procedure – called NLP-ForRank – developed in this article. The four...

This study proposes an extension to the inflation targeting framework for Poland that takes into consideration the exchange rate stability constraints imposed by the obligatory participation in the ERM2 on the path to the euro. The modified policy framework is based on targeting the differential...