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Faculty & Staff

Nazgul Jenish, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Economics Department

Division of Applied Sciences

 

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Phone: +996 (312) 915000 ext. 470

Room: 215

 

Dr. Nazgul Jenish is an Associate Professor in the Economics department at the American University of Central Asia. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics and MA in Economics from the University of Maryland - College Park (2008, USA). 

Dr. Nazgul Jenish joined AUCA in 2017 and teaches economics and statistics courses in the Economics department. Before joining the AUCA, Dr. Jenish was a professor at New York University, USA, where she taught and conducted research in econometrics, statistics, and probability theory. Dr. Jenish published extensively in the world’s top-ranked peer-reviewed economics journals, including the Journal of Economics and Econometric Theory, and delivered seminars at the world’s leading universities, including Yale, Columbia, Duke, and Cambridge. She has broad research interests, ranging from industrial, energy, and ICT policy to game theory, econometrics, and machine learning.

  • Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship, University of Maryland, 2007
  • Econometrics
  • Economic Policy
  • Game Theory
  • Machine Learning
  • “Impact of Digital Banking on Commercial Bank Performance in Kyrgyzstan”, American University of Central Asia, Working Paper, 2022
  • “Current State and Development Models of Technology in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan”, University of Central Asia, Working Paper No. 48, 2018
  • “ICT-Driven Technological and Industrial Upgrading in Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan: Current Realities and Opportunities”, the University of Central Asia, Working Paper No 47, 2018
  • “Tourism Sector in Kyrgyzstan: Trends and Challenges,” the University of Central Asia, Working Paper No 42, 2018
  • “A Strategic Interaction Model with Censored Strategies,” Econometrics 3(2), 412-442, 2015.
  • “A Spatial Semiparametric Model with Endogenous Regressors,” Econometric Theory, December 2014.
  • “Central Asia: Walls and Windmills of Economic Development,” in peer-reviewed volume “The U.S., China and the Future of Central Asia,” New York University, 2014.
  • “Nonparametric Spatial Regression under Near-epoch Dependence,” Journal of Econometrics 167, 224-239, 2012.
  • “On Spatial Processes and Asymptotic Inference under Near-Epoch Dependence”, (with I.R. Prucha), Journal of Econometrics 170, 2012, 178-190.
  • “Random Fields,” in S.N. Durlauf and L.E. Blume (eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2010.
  • “Central Limit Theorems and Uniform Laws of Large Numbers for Arrays of Random Fields,” (with I.R. Prucha), Journal of Econometrics 150, 86-98, 2009.
  • “The Eurasian Growth Paradox” (with A. Aslund), Institute for International Economics, Working Paper No 06-5, Washington, 2006, Re-printed in Beyond Transition, World Bank, 2007.
  • Data Analysis with Python
  • Econometrics II
  • Machine Learning
  • Microeconomics I, II
  • Research Methods in Economics

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