Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin is a Professor at Istanbul Medeniyet University (Turkey). He has also held various 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 several articles in respected 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 served as a consultant at various 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 Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES), and Director of the Credit Strategies Group atthe Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) (USA). Previously, he worked as a 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. He has published articles in various leading economics and finance journals and is currently the Managing Editor of Eurasian Economic Review (Springer). He served as a 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 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 include corporate finance, cryptocurrencies, financial economics, and tourism economics.