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 Group at 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.  Gökhan Karabulut is a Professor at Istanbul University (Turkey). He also holds visiting faculty positions at the University of New Orleans (USA) in Economics, and the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany (USA) in Psychology. He has published articles in reputed internationalacademic journals, presented his research at international conferences and published several books. His research interests are in behavioral economics and macroeconomics.   Dr. Giray Gözgor is an Associate Professor at the Istanbul Medeniyet University, Faculty of Political Sciences in Istanbul (Turkey). Dr. Gözgor has received a Ph.D. in Economics from Istanbul University in 2012. He became Associate Professor of Economics in 2014. He has also worked at Ghent University and the University of California, Irvine as a visiting scholar. He has solely published in peer-reviewed international journals, including Annals of Tourism Research, Emerging Markets Review, and the World Economy. His research interest includes the effects of globalization and digitalization on the financial markets and financial market regulations. His research also focuses on public policies on the outcome of financial development