Eurasian Business and Economics Perspectives: Proceedings of the 38th Eurasia Business and Economics Society Conference

EBES conferences have been an intellectual hub for academic discussion in economics, finance, and business fields and provide network opportunities for participants to make long-lasting academic cooperation. This is the 26th volume of the Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics (EBES’s official proceeding series), which includes selected papers from the 38th EBES Conference which took place in Warsaw. The conference was organized in hybrid mode with both online and in-person presentations at the Faculty of Economics Sciences, the University of Warsaw in Warsaw, Poland, on January 12-14, 2022. At the conference, 197 papers by 439 colleagues from 50 countries were presented. Both theoretical and empirical papers in this volume cover diverse areas of business, economics, and finance from many different regions.

Ender Demir is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Department of Business Administration, School of Social Sciences, Reykjavik University (Iceland). Dr. Demir is the founder and conference coordinator of the Eurasia Business and Economics 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.

Mehmet Hüseyin Bilgin is a Professor at Istanbul Medeniyet University (Turkey). He has also held visiting faculty positions at Indiana University in Indianapolis (USA), Jacksonville University (USA), Zagreb University (Croatia), and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). Prof. Bilgin has published many articles in reputable international journals. Among other several editorial duties, he serves as the Subject Editor in Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money and as the Associate Editor in Singapore Economic Review. 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 the Vice President of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) and 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 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 served as the 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.

Leszek Wincenciak, Ph.D., received his degree in Economics at the University of Warsaw in 2007 and currently holds the position of Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw. His research concentrates on the field of labour economics and education. His publications include topics like graduates transition from school to labour market; returns to schooling; unemployment duration; education and qualification mismatch; wage distribution and inequality. His research interests reach the field of international economics as well, in particular topics related to international trade - gravity models of trade; impact of international competition on the local labour markets; exchange rate fluctuations; currency union problems and international trade theory. His teaching experience ranges from undergraduate courses in microeconomics, international trade theory and policy, open economy macroeconomics to graduate courses in advanced macroeconomics. He participated in a number of research projects and served as advisor to government and non-government institutions. Currently he is the head of the Master Programme in International Economics at the Faculty of Economics Sciences, head of the Department of Education and Labour Economics at the same faculty and he is the organizer of the annual international conference Warsaw International Economic Meeting.

S. Tolga Er is a PhD candidate in the joint program ＂European Doctorate in Law and Economics＂ at the University of Hamburg in cooperation with the University of Bologna and Erasmus University Rotterdam. He serves in IT and business development at Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES). He holds a M.A. and B.A. in Economics from Marmara University (Turkey). His current research interests are health economics, law and economics, and constitutional political economy.