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 volume of Springer's book series Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics includes selected papers presented at the 43rd EBES Conference, held in Madrid (Spain) in April 2023. The conference was organized with the support of the Istanbul Economic Research Association (Turkey) in hybrid mode with both online and in-person presentations at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the Complutense University in Madrid, Spain. Both theoretical and empirical papers in this volume cover diverse areas of business, economics, and finance from many different regions. Therefore, it provides a great opportunity for colleagues, professionals, and students to catch up with the most recent studies in different fields and empirical findings in many countries and regions.

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Mehmet Huseyin 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 the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money and as the Associate Editor in the 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.

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

Dr. Hakan Danis is the Head of Macro Scenario Design at Citi. Prior to this position, he was the Director in Economic Scenarios and OpRisk Modeling at MUFG (USA) and worked at the Spanish multinational global bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) in USA as Senior Economist. He is one of the founders and first President of EBES. He also worked at Kadir Has University (Turkey) as research assistant. He has published articles in many of the leading economics and finance journals and currently serves as the Managing Editor of Eurasian Economic Review (a Springer Journal) which is indexed in SCOPUS. He was guest editor at Emerging Markets Finance & Trade (EMFT) (SSCI) and Singapore Economic Review (SER) (SSCI) multiple times and published several academic books. His current research and teaching interests include monetary policy, nonlinear applied time series, risk management in financial institutions and macroeconomics. He holds a PhD in Economics from University of Georgia (USA), M.A. and B.A. in Economics from Marmara University (Turkey).

Manuel García Goñi is Professor of Applied Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Complutense University of Madrid. He holds a PhD in Economics and a Master's degree in Political Economy from Boston University, specialising in Health Economics and Industrial Economics. He has hold visiting positions at Columbia University, Australian National University, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, University of Bologna or Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara. Manuel has published articles in journals, among others, Value in Health, Research Policy or Heath Economics, and has leaded at UCM numerous competitive research projects. His research has been funded by prestigious institutions in several countries, as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), European Commission, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (United States), the Mitchell Institute for Health and Education Policy (Australia), or in Spain from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, or Fundación Ramón Areces. Besides, Manuel has worked with the Nobel Prize in Economics Joseph Stiglitz.