Springer Eurasian Economic Perspectives: Proceedings of the 23rd Eurasia Business and Economics Society Conference: 13/1 (Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics, 13/1)

This book presents selected papers from the 23rd Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, held in Madrid, Spain. While the theoretical and empirical papers presented cover diverse areas of economics and finance in different geographic regions, the main focus is on the latest research concerning international trade, public economics, and regional studies. The book also includes studies on the economics of innovation, inequality and tourism. From the Back Cover This book presents selected papers from the 23rd Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, held in Madrid, Spain. While the theoretical and empirical papers presented cover diverse areas of economics and finance in different geographic regions, the main focus is on the latest research concerning international trade, public economics, and regional studies. The book also includes studies on the economics of innovation, inequality and tourism. About the Author Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin is a Professor at Istanbul Medeniyet University (Turkey). He has also held visiting faculty positions at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) (USA), Jacksonville University (USA), Zagreb University (Croatia), and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). Prof. Bilgin has published many articles in reputable international journals and is the Associate Editor of the Eurasian Economic Review (Springer). He is the founder and current Chairman of the Istanbul Economic Research Association, and the founder and current Vice President of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES, Turkey). He has also been active as a consultant to several institutions, as a newspaper columnist, and featured in several television programs. Hakan Danis is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Istanbul Sehir University (Turkey), Vice President of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES), and a Director in the Credit Strategies Group at the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) (USA). He has previously worked at the Spanish multinational global bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) in the USA as a Senior Economist. He is one of the founders and first President of the EBES. He has published articles in many leading economics and finance journals and currently serves as the Managing Editor of Eurasian Economic Review (Springer). He is a frequent guest editor for the journals Emerging Markets Finance & Trade and Singapore Economic Review, and has published several academic books. His current research and teaching interests include monetary policy, nonlinear applied time series, risk management in financial institutions, and macroeconomics.  Gökhan Karabulut is a Professor at Istanbul University (Turkey). He also holds visiting faculty positions in Economics at the University of New Orleans (USA), and in Psychology at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany (USA). He has published articles in reputable international academic journals, presented his research at international conferences, and published several books. His main research interests are in behavioral economics and macroeconomics. Giray Gözgor is an Associate Professor at Istanbul Medeniyet University (Turkey). He has also been a visiting scholar at Ghent University (Belgium) and the University of California (USA). He has published articles in international journals such as the Annals of Tourism, Emerging Markets Review, and World Economy. His research interests are in the effects of globalization and digitalization on financial markets and financial market regulations, and in public policies and the outcomes of financial development.