Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin is a Professor at the Istanbul Medeniyet University (Turkey). He also held several 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 is the founder and current Vice President of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES, Turkey). He has also been active as a consultant in several institutions, as a newspaper columnist, and featured in several television programs.Hakan Danis is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Istanbul Sehir University (Turkey), Vice President of Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES), and Director in Credit Strategies Groupat the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) (USA). Previously, he worked at the Spanish multinational global bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) in USA as a Senior Economist. He is one of the founders and first President of 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 at the 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. Ender Demir is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Istanbul Medeniyet University (Turkey). Dr. Demir is the founder and conference coordinator of the Eurasia Business and Economic Society (EBES). He serves as the Associate Editor of the Eurasian Business Review (Springer), and as a Subject Editor of the Journal of Multinational Financial Management. He has published his research in peer-reviewed international journals such as the Annals of Tourism Research, Emerging Markets Review, Finance Research Letters, and Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. His research interests are in corporate finance, cryptocurrencies, financial economics, and tourism economics.Ahmet Faruk Aysan is the Dean of the School of Management and Administrative Sciences at the Istanbul Sehir University (Turkey). Professor Aysan’s fields of specialization are international finance, macroeconomics, political economy, banking and finance, econometrics as well as governance and development. He is a member of editorial and advisory boards of several international journals and has published many articles in academic journals. Professor Aysan was awarded with the Bogaziçi University Foundation Publication Awards; Bogaziçi University Foundation AcademicPromotion Awards and the Ibn Khaldun Prize for the best paper on the North African and Middle Eastern Country Studies granted by Middle East Economic Association.
