Eurasian Business and Economics Perspectives: Proceedings of the 49th Eurasia Business and Economics Society Conference

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin is Professor at Istanbul Medeniyet University (Türkiye) and served as Part-Time Professor at Yeditepe University between 2011 and 2014. Professor Bilgin has numerous articles published in reputable international journals indexed by scientific databases, as well as research papers presented at international conferences, and academic books. He is Founder of the Istanbul Economic Research Association and currently serves as its Chairman. Additionally, he founded an international scholarly association called Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) and currently serves as its Vice President.

Dr. Hakan Danış works at CitiBank in San Francisco (USA). Prior to this position, he was Director in Economic Scenarios and OpRisk Modeling at US Bank and MUFG (USA) and worked as Senior Economist at the Spanish multinational global bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) in the USA. He is one of the founders and first President of EBES. Additionally, he worked as Research Assistant at Kadir Has University (Türkiye). Dr. Danis has published articles in many leading economics and finance journals and currently serves as Managing Editor of the Eurasian Economic Review, a Springer Journal indexed in SCOPUS.

Ender Demir is Associate Professor of Finance at the Department of Business Administration, School of Social Sciences at Reykjavik University (Iceland). He has been teaching at Istanbul Medeniyet University, Yeditepe University (part-time), and Istanbul Bilgi University (part-time) in Türkiye. Dr. Demir is Conference Coordinator of the Eurasia Business and Economic Society (EBES). He serves as Associate Editor at Eurasian Business Review (SSCI) and as Subject Editor at the Journal of Multinational Financial Management (SSCI).

Michael Chletsos is a Professor of Economic Analysis in the Department of Economics at the University of Piraeus, Greece, and Director of the Master’s Program in Economics of Education and Management of Educational Units. He is also a member of the Board of Directors at the University of Piraeus. He has previously taught at the University of Crete, the University of Thessaly, and the University of Ioannina. Additionally, he served as Director of the Research Directorate at the Employment Observatory Research and Informatics SA. His research interests include labor economics, public economics, social protection, health economics, poverty, and income inequalities.